All parties are held off campus at my old school. We have no greek houses either. We live in a rural area, so our parties were always down by the river or in a field with a big bon-fire or we held them at a bro or sis apartment. Some people lived in houses (not frat or soror houses) and we had parties there. It isn't that hard to figure out where the parties were going to be and who was invited. After the party had been going for awhile, we all head over to the local pub. Our social chairs (each soror and frat have one at our school) got together and had meetings and decided who and where. Then we decided who would drive. If nobody volunteered, we drew names, and if that didn't work, we cancelled the event. If you live on a campus that has greek houses, maybe you should visit a chapter of your sorority or frat that doesn't have housing and see how the coordinate their events. That might be helpful. Many campuses nationwide don't have greek housing, they've gotten along fine and their numbers don't suffer. This new policy might affect those campuses with housing, but I don't think that it will hurt them badly. There will just be an adjustment period. My personal opinion is, if a frat or soror decide to drive drunk, they obviously don't care if they kill their bros or sisters or themselves. I wouldn't want someone who thinks that way in my sorority. I want to be a part of an orginization that watches out for each other and helps each other, not every man for himself. If you are greek and you drive drunk, you don't know what being greek is and you aren't a true bro or sister. That's my opinion. For those campuses out there that have housing, you didn't join to drink, you joined because you believe in what your orginization stands for. If it goes dry, get over it, it's not the important thing. The important thing is that you have your chapter, and you have your house. If you want to party, you'll find a way. You'll also learn a little more responsibilty in the process. If you still have a problem with it, you can't complain until you try to do something about it.
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"I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special."
--Julia Roberts
(Steel Magnolias)
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