Thank you for the responses. As I alluded to, I have no legal background, hence my ignorance. In response to Ksig, of course links are awesome, hence the link in the signature. But we write a lot of posts that we don't chuck up on message boards. I put it up here because I want your input, and I linked the blog because that's where my own questions and musings were written. My apologies for the initial post. It won't happen again.
I also posted it here because I think that the dynamic between rowdy houses and neighbors is an interesting one, and regardless of the lack of concrete legal precedent, there are a lot of unaddressed questions. I'm only familiar with the Berkeley situation, so perhaps folks from other towns can help me get a better picture. Should the neighbor "put up or shut up?" Fraternities should be responsible for monitoring their behavior and being respectful of the community, but if they fail to do so, who is next in line? The tension between Greek houses and neighbors is not limited to Berkeley, so what methods, if any, have been successful in defusing this tension?
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