Curious about Dry fraternities - Page 2

PrincessHeather · #1 07-23-2003, 05:23 AM

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Originally posted by WarEagle1918
Theta Chi went nationally dry as off July but some chapters got waivers.

I was wondering if that was recent... (we have a QC chapter at my campus.)

We also have FDQ on our campus too.

(at least they are both dry now, it will make things easier to explain.)

ksig600 · #2 07-23-2003, 09:22 AM

The Kappa Sig house at UF is dry, eventhough there are no dry housing initiatives through our nationals. Many people think that if a chapter is dry then they don't drink at all, or do not rush guys that do. That is a big misconception. Not every guy in the chapter is a bible-thumper, and drinking for a good time is allowed just not in the house without a 3rd party vendor.

UFfitZ56 · #3 07-23-2003, 10:22 AM

well my friend is a kappa sig at UF and they are alot different than most other kappa sig chapters i've seen.

PM_Mama00 · #4 07-23-2003, 10:28 AM

Ha....NPC chapters not being dry. With rules like we have, we might as well just not serve alcohol even at formal and semi-formal!

Can't have parties at a bar unless the bar is shut down, can't have our name associated at all with alcohol or bars. Kinda sux but in a way it's what makes my chapter known as (yes, the girls who can't do anythihng) the classy girls.

ksig600 · #5 07-23-2003, 10:34 AM

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Originally posted by UFfitZ56
well my friend is a kappa sig at UF and they are alot different than most other kappa sig chapters i've seen.

Very true, the guys i've met from their chapter were a little more conservative than others, but they were great guys nonetheless. Kappa Sig at UF is a big chapter, you are bound to find hardcore partiers.

DeltaSigStan · #6 07-23-2003, 10:43 AM

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Originally posted by ksig600
Many people think that if a chapter is dry then they don't drink at all, or do not rush guys that do. That is a big misconception. Not every guy in the chapter is a bible-thumper, and drinking for a good time is allowed just not in the house without a 3rd party vendor.

We have a couple of Phi Delta Thetas staying at our complex this summer (We don't have them at SDSU, they're South Dakota Alphas, the chapter our Assistant Coordinator/Advisor to IFC and Panhellenic is from), and they are STRICTLY dry, and they're the biggest house at the University of South Dakota. I know several Phi Delt chapters that are like this.

I wish we knew how to get around things like this and operate like that. Going dry has KILLED some chapters numberwise.

aephi alum · #7 07-23-2003, 10:51 AM

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Originally posted by PM_Mama00
Ha....NPC chapters not being dry. With rules like we have, we might as well just not serve alcohol even at formal and semi-formal!

We never had alcohol at our formals or semiformals... or anything else for that matter. Strictly verboten.

Kristin AGD · #8 07-23-2003, 11:12 AM

Same here. And at the time I would say the majority of us were over 21. The restrictions were just too difficult to weed through. Easier just to not have alcohol.

GeekyPenguin · #9 07-23-2003, 01:24 PM

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Originally posted by DeltaSigStan
I wish we knew how to get around things like this and operate like that. Going dry has KILLED some chapters numberwise.

And then there's other chapters who just won't stay dry...that ruin it for everyone else.

PSK480 · #10 07-24-2003, 10:40 AM

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Originally posted by OUlioness01
technically, according to insurance all fraternity houses should be dry.

not so, there are restrictions set up on how alcohol can be in the house and under what circustances you get in trouble for it. In Phi Sigma Kappa if you're 21 or older you can have alcohol in the house. Parties, although, muct follow FIPG regulations. If your house is dry it does help with your risk reduction and you may even get a break on liability when it comes to paying for insurance.

SigK_Bama · #11 07-24-2003, 10:50 AM

The FIJI's on my campus voluntarily went dry around 1999 or so. Their national headquarters awarded them some ridiculous amount, like $10,000, for agreeing to go dry. Soon thereafter, membership and popularity bottomed out in the chapter. I heard that they managed to raise all of the $10,000 or so do give back to NHQ so they could be a "wet" chapter again.

In all reality, they never went dry. They would just pull their couches out onto the sidewalk where the land was city owned, and technically off their property, and drink there on the sidewalk.

absolutuscchick · #12 07-24-2003, 01:45 PM

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Originally posted by LXAAlum
Farmhouse has long been "dry" as a policy (though I've seen the policy violated), Sigma Nu, ATO both nationally went dry (4 years ago?) - Phi Delts and a few others were considering it.

I knew about sigma nu from one of my friends who went to Rochester, but at USC, Sigma Nu is definitely not dry!! Ditto on ATO....and Phi Delt was kicked off of the row at USC, but before they were kicked off, they were definitely not dry at all...In fact the only house I know of who is at all dry at sc are the delts....and they just have a dry rush.

absolutuscchick · #13 07-24-2003, 01:48 PM

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Originally posted by aephi alum
We never had alcohol at our formals or semiformals... or anything else for that matter. Strictly verboten.

that's hardcore! I would think that if you did that at sc, people would just show up drunk to formals/semiformals and bring flasks though (some do anyways!)

shadokat · #14 07-24-2003, 02:00 PM

Dry formals and semi-formals? We had cash bars at our events. If you were 21 and wanted to shell out the bucks, you could drink. You just have to be at a third party vendor with a liquor license and bartender.

aephi alum · #15 07-24-2003, 02:37 PM

Hmm... now that I think about it, I'm not sure if our alcohol policy would have allowed a third-party vendor. My chapter was relatively small, and there were few enough 21+ sisters who drank that we never even bothered to ask.

I turned 21 early in my senior year. Both our semiformal and our formal that year were in hotels, and we were allowed to go to the hotel's bar, buy a drink, and bring it back to the function. And afterwards, we went drinking

At my senior-year semiformal, there was a bat mitzvah going on next door. We had a really good DJ, but no alcohol. They had an open bar, but their band played mostly big-band stuff (obviously mom and dad picked the music

). The kids kept sneaking into our semiformal to dance to our music. I wanted to arrange a trade - they crash our semiformal and dance, we crash their bat mitzvah and drink