[9805] in APO-L
BYOB policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patti Alutto)
Mon Oct 17 10:18:45 1994
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 08:30:05 -0500
Reply-To: Patti Alutto <palutto@INDIANA.EDU>
From: Patti Alutto <palutto@INDIANA.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
We haven't received a copy of the proposed amendments yet, but I don't
think what was written here concerning the BYOB policy is all that strange.
At Indiana University, any function where THREE OR MORE members of an
organization are present (and able to be identified) becomes a chapter
function. Obviously, this means that any bar in town is host to lots of
student functions each night without even realizing it. This really only
comes into play when one or more of the people present are breaking the
law, i.e. underage drinking. If a student organization here hosted a party
where members are breaking the law, that organization will be brought up
before the Dean of Students. If it's a social greek then Panhel and IFC
make some recommendations, but otherwise the Dean uses written guidelines
to determine the penalty, if there is one. The president of the
organization can take the heat as well. When I was president of our
chapter I was told by Student Legal Services that I could PERSONALLY be
held accountable and could be brought to court for any wrongdoing that
happened at a chapter function.
Currently IU is officially a dry campus, but the trend in the last couple
years among greek systems is the BYOB policy that will (hopefully) be
attempted here before I'm too old to care. The policy states that everyone
must bring their own alcohol to a function and give it to a non-partisan
hired bartender who is responsible for doling out the drinks and making
sure no one drinks too much or is served underage. That means that the
bartender is the one ultimately responsible and will lose his/her license
if the cops find something shady happened. My sorority has accepted this
as its national policy, as have many other social greeks from my
understanding.
The real key to the issue at this campus is being identified. The cops
can't ask you if you belong to an organization - it has to be readily
apparent. As such, we don't wear letters when we're out for a night of
fun, and no one who hosts a party forgets to put "this is not a chapter
function" at the bottom of the invitation. We also discourage people
wearing their lavalieres or any other APO letter things while they're at a
function where someone could be breaking the law.
Obviously, this is an issue I feel strongly about since I'm also a part of
the social greek system here, so I'll be looking forward to receiving the
actual copies of the amendments. I don't suppose anyone's scanned them in
and put them on the WWW or anything, have they?
Patti Alutto
Mu Chapter, Indiana University (the one in Bloomington, IN)
palutto@indiana.edu
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