Usage of Chapter Funds

[Kevin]

As to alcohol funding, from a liability standpoint, you need to be strict BYOB. And really, that's the fairest way to do it. If you're providing alcohol for guests from pooled money or otherwise pooling money to buy kegs, etc., then you have some serious issues. Some co-ed gets trashed at your party, then hops in her car and ends up driving into a tree, you can say goodbye to the tradition and everything you and your alumni have built over the years in the course of a single evening.

These risk aversion policies exist not because alumni and your national organizations want to be paternalistic pains your ass. These policies exist to ensure that your pledge class won't be the last pledge class your organization ever has. You might consider a different approach in a bid for leadership. You might consider speaking with some alumni (keeping this conversation very in-house) about what can be done to put a damper on some of the risky business going on here and to transition your chapter away from a culture which apparently places alcohol at the center of the universe. You should be worried about the quality of your membership rather than achieving the highest collective BAC on campus.

If alcohol is at your center, you're offering no one anything they can't get at the other houses. If you can't do that, then you're going to fail at rush and your house is going to have to learn to enjoy everyone else's scraps at rush.