[17574] in APO-L
Re: additional alcohol question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (B. E. Mills)
Fri Nov 14 18:35:45 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 18:30:31 -0500
Reply-To: "B. E. Mills" <gsi07816@GSAIX2.CC.GASOU.EDU>
From: "B. E. Mills" <gsi07816@GSAIX2.CC.GASOU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <9711141701.AA123410@gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU>
Hello everyone,
I've noticed that everyone seems to be concerned about alcohol
policies for individual chapters and that some are considering becoming a
totally dry. Before anyone does that, your chapter needs to check
with nationals. I say this because a few years ago my chapter (this was
before I pledged.) decided to become totally dry at chapter functions.
(socials, meetings, etc.) However, when nationals found out, we were
told that we could not declare our chapter functions to be totally dry,
because that would be an infringement on a person's (who was 21+) rights
to drink alcohol. We had decided to become dry because there had been some
problems when we had alcohol at functions.
Although everyone in our chapter had agreed that we didn't want
drinking at our functions, we had to change our policies. Of course,
for most (if not all) of our APO functions, brothers (even the 21+) don't
bring alcohol.
Perhaps, it would just be better to let each person decide
whether he/she should take alcohol. Or, if alcohol is there, make it where
the person who wants to drink has to bring his own (and is not allowed to
share with anyone under 21).
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