Absolutely. I think the primary concern from the people making those statements has been about alcohol, and liability--the idea that frat recruitment involves a lot of drinking, and therefore holding it during the semester when there's more people around, and when the houses can require 'study hall' for new members in some theoretical re…
Absolutely. I think the primary concern from the people making those statements has been about alcohol, and liability--the idea that frat recruitment involves a lot of drinking, and therefore holding it during the semester when there's more people around, and when the houses can require 'study hall' for new members in some theoretical resemblance of paying attention to coursework, might provide some sort of guardrail against the worst excesses...But yes. The unspoken thing here about separating frat and sorority rush, along with the different codes of comportment, who has access to alcohol and controls that access for others--it's all really troubling.
Absolutely. I think the primary concern from the people making those statements has been about alcohol, and liability--the idea that frat recruitment involves a lot of drinking, and therefore holding it during the semester when there's more people around, and when the houses can require 'study hall' for new members in some theoretical resemblance of paying attention to coursework, might provide some sort of guardrail against the worst excesses...But yes. The unspoken thing here about separating frat and sorority rush, along with the different codes of comportment, who has access to alcohol and controls that access for others--it's all really troubling.