Alcohol Policy Explanation

[Kevin]

Originally posted by lauradav
There are also a lot of options other than yellow school buses. Depending upon where you are there may be a charter bus company who is willing to work with you or may even be willing to negotiate better rates if your panhellenic exec works together to talk to them. Most mass transit companies will also charter their buses after hours and they tend to be cleaner and better kept than school buses.

I definitely do not recommend having your dates rent the rooms in their names or having the chapter rent the rooms. The whole idea is that the formals are not supposed to be over night excursions. Chapters cannot afford the liability for what might happen if the whole chapter gets rooms with their dates. We can all imagine the bad scenarios from date rape to acquiantance rape to liability for damage caused to the rooms.

We always had tons of fun and we never rented rooms at our location. Instead of focusing on the rooms as the reason for your chapter not enjoying social events why don't you do a survey and see what elements of the parties the chapter members think could be improved. You can ask what kind of music they want, what kind of food, theme, etc. Make it their party with everyone's input and take the focus away from transportation.

Good luck!

Laura

I don't know about how ya'll handle your liability.. but so long as we stay within the guidelines of our risk reduction we are covered I believe up to 1 million per member.