Greeks Binge Drinking

A detailed Summary of Greeks Binge Drinking

Greek life has always had its' problems with underage and binge drinking. Though, lately it seems like the number of problems and even deaths due to binge drinking has been on the rise. To try curbing these problems, the Pan-Hellenic council, which is the governing body of all sororities on CMU's campus, has decided to drastically change one of their alcohol policies. This change has come in the form of article 12 which states, that no sorority or sorority member may partake in any party at a fraternity house, were alcohol is present. On the other hand, fraternities here at CMU are not showing the same support for article twelve that sororities have. With this mixed reaction for article 12 it is going to be hard to instill and enforce the rule to fraternity and sorority members.

First, lets take a look at CMU's past alcohol policies that fraternities and sororities had to abide by. According to, Central Michigan's web site on alcohol awareness; fraternities have had a consistent alcohol policy that has stayed the same since they have been registered organizations on CMU's campus. Fraternities are allowed to drink in their houses, and have parties with alcohol present. The only restrictions

Even though article twelve was put into effect to help sorority women, most fraternity men are not happy with the rule. Ty Burnett, president of the IFC, which is the governing body for fraternities here at CMU stated " I don't like to admit this, but the truth of the matter is that a lot of guys join fraternities just for the drunken parties with sorority members. When you take this aspect away from them, then they see no other reason to be involved in a fraternity." As sad as this may sound it is true, fraternities have always been known for their huge and out of control parties, and as long as they're allowed to have these parties, binge drinking will always be a problem. So far, article twelve has not done much to prevent sorority girls from partying at fraternity houses. Girls still go to fraternity parties and drink, they just don't let their presidents or chapter advisors know about it. The only difference from the past is that fraternities don't register their parties with the college anymore. If they did that, then no sorority girls would be allowed at their houses when they hold open parties.

During the spring semester of 2000, the Pan Hellenic council voted into effect a rule that changed the way sorority and fraternity social events will take place forever here at CMU. They passed article twelve, which prevents sorority members from consuming alcohol in a Fraternity house. This law was passed to try and decrease the amount of under age and binge drinking done by sorority members, due to the recent heat that Fraternities and Sororities have been receiving from the media because of binge

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