How open are your parties?

[33girl]

Originally posted by AlphaXiGirl
So, let me get this straight. I don't have to pay dues, attend meetings, take vows, or do anything else remotely giving rights of greek membership, yet I get to partake in the fun that abounds at fraternity parties???? and the University has mandated this????

Who cares if they have a social life. If they don't like not having a social life then they should "Go Greek"....also, isn't there a campus wide organization that hosts events for the entire campus? Why do the fraternities have to provide a social life for the entire campus? I can't believe the national organizations aren't up in arms over that.

I guess I am shocked that a University would add so much liability for the sake of 15% of the student population - that, I might add, had the opportunity to join one of these organizations or, perhaps, start their own.

As far as being an a-hole at the party - it looks like even if you were an a-hole, you would still have open access to the fraternity parties. I'm sure that the worst offenders could have university sanctions including being banned from fraternity parties but just your average, run-of-the-mill a-hole could attend forever.

I was saying that if you are an a-hole in the sense of starting fights, getting violently drunk etc the fraternities could most likely refuse to let you in and the school would be OK with it. I.E. certain people can be banned. If we banned all the run-of-the-mill a-holes there would be no one at the parties. LOL

At my school - this is back in the day - the only closed fraternity parties were mixers. Everything else was open. You occasionally had to get tickets from a brother, but I think that was more so they could gauge how much beer to buy. And yes, you paid to get in, the same as you paid to get in a party at the football house or a random GDI party.

I think one reason anti-Greekness has increased is because of closed parties. People don't understand it's for risk management reasons and accuse Greeks of being snobby or elitist.

If they're at the parties and didn't go Greek, it's probably because they were not given a bid, not because they didn't want to.