The Daily Cardinal - Frats weigh no-alcohol policy

Ban Booze? No way - we'll form a comittee to study it to death.

The Intrafraternity Council voted Monday against a policy that would ban hard liquor from all fraternity house parties and tabled discussion for a policy proposing to ban kegs until next week.

UW-Madison fraternity and sorority advisor Barbara Kautz said that although the proposed hard liquor policy failed, a motion was made to create a committee to make events safer and decrease binge drinking throughout both the Greek community and campus.

“We’re going to develop a committee just to look at other options because it was very heated and there was a lot of discussion,” said Noah Annes, UW-Madison senior and vice president of IFC.
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Sigma Phi Epsilon has taken steps toward safety in the past by eliminating hard alcohol and kegs from their parties, according to UW-Madison senior and SPE President Simon Snyder. Instead, they operate parties on a ticket exchange system for beer.

“We just felt it was too much of a risk, and the insurance was too expensive,” he said. “We didn’t think it was worth it.”

The fraternity took an additional step this semester to change the number of house parties from three to one per semester.

“We’re now limiting it to one in the spring and one in the fall,” Snyder said. “We feel that the liabilities are too large in terms of how many things can go wrong and putting our members in that much danger."

The Daily Cardinal - Frats weigh no-alcohol policy

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