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Originally posted by AlphaXiGirl
My issue on this front is what do you do with underage members that use the DD because they have been drinking. You want them to use the DD program if they have been drinking but now that they have admitted that they have broken fraternity, university, state, and federal law, do you bring them in front of your standards board???? You should. However doing so will stop underage sisters from using the program and since roughly 3/4 of every chapter is probably underage - why have the program at all if only 1/4 will/can use it.
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I thought this one raised a very interesting point. I mean, no, we don't really want to be "policing" our members outside of our own events. And, as many have pointed out, students are going to drink anyway and as their sisters/brothers, we don't want them driving. BUT...should offering rides to underage members who choose to drink really be a fraternity-endorsed program since underage drinking *is* against the law. I don't know...seems like a slippery slope in terms of liability and something that might be better left for a "just between friends" informal arrangement. OR, maybe another solution would be to hand out cards with the number for SAFE RIDES on it to all chapter members. This at least would not make it a fraternity issue.
I am all for friends watching out for one another and making sure we all get home in one piece (WITHOUT driving drunk), but I think some good liability points have been made here and unfortunately, there are not many groups who can afford not to be congnisant of liability issues nowadays.
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