Western Kentucky University has officially ordered Fraternities to 'go dry'. In Kentucky. Home of Kentucky Bourbon. And mint juleps. Oh, the humanity!
"The alcohol-free recommendation will result in all student housing affiliated with WKU—residence halls, sorority houses and fraternity houses—operating under the same alcohol-related regulations," said Joe Tinius, advisory committee co-chair and assistant superintendent of Bowling Green Independent Schools.
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"In the past four months at least six university students across the nation have died after consuming deadly amounts of alcohol at fraternity houses," Tinius said. "The committee chose to be proactive by making this recommendation rather than reacting to the potential of a similar tragedy at Western."He added that while the change will not provide an absolute guarantee, it "certainly decreases the chance that WKU will have to deal with the same situations faced by schools like Oklahoma and Colorado where alcohol-related student deaths occurred in connection with fraternity houses."
Notice that they did not cite any instances of bad behavior, but thought it might happen.
