[16786] in APO-L
Re: ALCHOHOL POLICY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ellen Kranzer)
Wed Apr 30 13:17:26 1997
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 01:16:53 -0400
Reply-To: Ellen Kranzer <ellen_kranzer@HARVARD.EDU>
From: Ellen Kranzer <ellen_kranzer@HARVARD.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
>My personal view on the matter is that, if it isn't an activity
>specifically organized by Alpha Phi Omega or with the APO name clearly
>connected to it somehow, it falls out of APO jurisdiction even if
>_everyone_ in attendance is a brother or a pledge. Thus, it is not
>subject to the alcohol guidelines. If there is a legal precedent which
>says I am wrong, then I guess I'm wrong but it doesn't make sense.
Legally you're wrong, or at least what you think having the APO name clearly
connected somehow and what the law thinks haveing the APO name clearly
connected somehow are not necessarily the same thing.
Was the event ever announced at an APO meeting? Was a notice for the event
posted in the APO office? Did the people attending the "non-APO" event
leave from an APO event? Etc.
If the answer to any of these is yes, you have a potential legal connection
(i.e. something for a lawyer to exploit, not necessarily one that will work
in court, but certainly one that will get a hearing.)
Oh, and I hope you don't want the law to make sense. There seems to be a
basic premise of the U.S. legal system, "Someone got hurt, someone must pay"
and that someone shouldn't be the person who got hurt unless there is no way
to possibly stick someone else who has more money with the bill.
Y.I.S.
c.c.
