How NOT to do a SigEp video.

The overwhelming majority of online videos about SigEp send a positive message about the fraternity and its members. Even the ones that show brothers displaying um, character flaws, are not generally mean spirited even if they don't show us in the best light. 

However, occasionally a video shows up that is best used as a cautionary tail. Such is the one I have here today. 

While I would not call the video NSFW, exactly, you may feel otherwise. There are a few clips that get very close to the line. 

Questions to ask yourself before posting SigEp videos:

1. How does this affect the SigEp image? Positve? Negative?
2. If a potential member sees this video will he be more or less likely to consider SigEp?
3. If a parent see this video will he or she have a positive response?

Note I said nothing about production values. That is on purpose. Some of you may be aspiring to a career in video and this is a good place to practice and get better. Just be aware that "Content is King." I'm looking forward to your comments.

Henderson State Greeks Review Guidelines After Sig Ep Incident

Dean Enforces Greek party Policy
Josh Briggs

On Tuesday, Chad Fielding, dean of students, met with representatives from each greek organization on campus to discuss the rules and restrictions for social functions. Since the middle of summer break, Fielding said that he and other university personnel have been trying to come up with a way to get across to all greek organizations that they have certain regulations to abide by.

The announcement came on the heels of a fraternity party that sent two underage students to the hospital with apparent alcohol positing. However, Fielding insists it was coincidental.

"Thursday night's events did not cause this to happen," said Fielding. "All it did was help us know the need for it to happen."

According to a source close to Sigma Phi Epsilon, female who requested that her name be withheld and an unidentified male were taken to the hospital with apparent alcohol poisoning after being at a Sig Ep event and playing a drinking game called "shots around the world" Oct. 1.

When people elect to pledge to become a part of the greek community, they are given a regulations guide. Fielding said that for a while now, most of the fraternities with homes have had open parties at their house, which is against their Fraternal Information and Programming Group (FIPG) regulations. FIPG Inc. is the risk management team associated with every fraternity and sorority on campus.

Fielding made it clear to all organizations that they are not to have open parties anymore, and that using the big banners that advertise their parties' theme or name is prohibited. This means that fraternities such as Phi Sigma Kappa can no longer post their banner for Graffiti, an annual Phi Sig event. They also cannot post signs that have a certain cost for men and women on it.

"They think I'm being a real ass, but I'm really not because my job is to be an advocate for the students," said Fielding.

"I have to do it in a negative way a lot of times, but regardless of whether they agree with me by enforcing them to abide by the standards, I'm protecting them," said Fielding.

The greek organizations have to abide by the FIPG guidelines or there will be no more parties at all. Fielding suggested to the fact that if something like what took place at the Sig Ep house was to happen again, that the particular greek organization that was a part of it could be shut down. Fielding also said that things like this could cause someone to die if not handled correctly.

"That would be the last thing that I would want to do, but of course, it is an option," said Fielding. "All of the greek organizations were invited to come to campus because they bring a lot of good.

But a greek system that is not strong and only brings liability can be uninvited."

The FIPG guidelines cover everything pertaining to drugs and alcohol and parties involving a greek organization.

According to the risk management policy that all greek organizations have adopted on campus, the first policy pertaining to alcohol reads: The possession, sale, use or consumption of alcoholic beverages, while on chapter premises or during a fraternity event, in any situation sponsored or endorsed by the chapter, or at any event an observer would associate with the fraternity, must be in compliance with any and all applicable laws of the state, province, county, city and institution of higher education, and must comply with either the BYOB or Third Party Vendor Guidelines.

No alcoholic beverages may be purchased through or with chapter funds nor may
the purchase of same for members or guests be undertaken or coordinated by any member in the name of or on behalf of the chapter. The purchase or use of a bulk quantity or common source(s) of alcoholic beverage, for example, kegs or cases, is prohibited.

There are also rules that have to be followed in order to host a closed party.

According to Fielding, the hosting group must have a guest list and a check-off list. One member has to be at the door checking IDs, while another conducts security by watching for fights and prohibited activity.

Wristbands or other means of identification should be used to identify whether or not the person is 21 or older.

At most of the greek parties on campus, a marker is used to put 21 on the hands of people of age to drink or an X to signify that he or she is under 21. The other members are not to be drinking while at the event. Their job is to walk around and keep an eye out for any underage drinking, and if they find someone, they are to "make them leave."

"I feel that they are ready to rebuild what they are supposed to be," said Fielding.

"It is going to change, and you can either get behind that change and help improve it, or you can fight it, and it is going to be a losing battle."

All of the FIPG policies can be found on the Internet at www.FIPG.org. For any more information or questions, contact Fielding by phone at 230-5420 or at his office in the Garrison in room 112 by the information desk.

IIT Greek Found Dead in Storage Room

Student missing 8 days is found dead in
Illinois Institute of Technology fraternity house
Benjamin Collen died of asphyxia due to inhalation of carbon dioxide
By Emily S. Achenbaum and Mary Owen, Tribune reporters

An Illinois Institute of Technology student missing for eight days was found dead inside a storage room in his fraternity house on campus, but it was unclear Sunday how the 19-year-old's body went unnoticed for so long.

Benjamin Collen, a sophomore biomedical engineering major from Lincolnwood, died of asphyxia due to inhalation of carbon dioxide from a canister, the Cook County medical examiner's office said Sunday. His death was ruled an accident.

A fraternity brother found Collen in the Alpha Sigma Phi house in the 3300 block of South Wabash Avenue on the South Side. Police, fraternity and university officials would not comment on whether the house had been searched since Collen was reported missing Nov. 14.

His parents had made televised appeals for his return or for anyone with information about him to come forward. Family members declined to comment Sunday.

Jeff Bierig, a spokesman for IIT, said the university posted signs on campus and e-mailed all students about Collen's disappearance.

Chicago police said Sunday they are not investigating since no wrongdoing is evident. They declined to comment further except to say that officers responded about 6 p.m. Saturday. A fraternity spokesman said a member called 911.

Collen had belonged to the fraternity since his freshman year and had lived in the fraternity house. More recently, he had been living at IIT's McCormick Student Village, a few blocks away.

Joseph Booker, 20, and a junior at DePaul University, said Collen was a friend and told him a few weeks ago that he had gotten kicked out of the fraternity house.

Owen McCulloch, president of the national Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity, said he was unsure why Collen no longer lived in the house. He said he also did not know whether the IIT chapter was in good-standing because the national organization's registrar was unavailable Sunday.

About 25 members live in the unassuming brick fraternity house that is the last on a street of Greek houses. A campus security guard ordered a Tribune reporter attempting to speak to fraternity members off the campus.

Booker, who graduated from Niles West High School in 2007 with Collen, said he was not aware that his friend was inhaling carbon dioxide. He said Collen was a bright student who played on the chess team and won science awards in high school. He said he was an occasional prankster who enjoyed a good debate.

"We thought he was going to do something epic with his life," Booker said.

At IIT, Collen was an ROTC cadet, as were many of his fraternity brothers.

Inhaling carbon dioxide to get high is a less common form of "huffing," which involves household chemicals such as glue, paint, aerosol and fuel.

On Sunday, the "Benjamin Collen is missing" Facebook page had almost 3,500 members who had messages after news of his death was posted.

Some comments: "wow this is unbelievable. if it werent for ben, i wouldnt have passed math in high school," and "Rest in Peace Ben! You will always be with us in that courtyard smoking and laughing and being so you."

Tribune reporter Dan P. Blake contributed to this report.

Full of Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing

Few arrested in San Diego State bust face charges
By Allison Hoffman
Associated Press Writer
SAN DIEGO (AP) --

Nearly four months after federal agents and campus police stormed San Diego State University's Fraternity Row in one of the nation's largest campus drug busts, fewer than half of those arrested face charges as the school tries to repair its image ahead of the upcoming academic year.

Authorities announced 128 people had been arrested, but only 77 cases were referred to the San Diego County district attorney's office, which never filed charges against eight people and dismissed charges or issued citations to another 11, bringing the total number of active charges to just 58.

Of those, the district attorney's office says 29 have pleaded guilty. Prosecutors said only those with prior convictions would be subject to long prison sentences; most will be put on probation.

A former campus community-service officer is expected to get probation when he is sentenced after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine for sale, prosecutors say. And an honors student who was accused of masterminding a cocaine trafficking operation from his fraternity house may serve only a brief sentence after his guilty plea to a single felony drug-sale charge.

"In the end, not many students got charged, so what was the point?" asked Tony Matsumoto, 30, a graduate student in environmental engineering. "Why target San Diego State? I'm sure this stuff happens in the Ivy League, too."

Officials initially praised the operation as a strike against widespread drug dealing at the 34,000-student campus. University President Stephen Weber compared it to breaking up a cartel, calling the activities uncovered by investigators "trafficking.

"Six Greek houses were suspended immediately, and 75 students were rounded up and marched into the basement of the university basketball arena for questioning. The bust involved unusual cooperation between the university and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, which traditionally takes a hands-off approach to college drug use.

In court documents, undercover agents described doing drug deals in university parking lots and alleged that members of one fraternity, Theta Chi, were laundering their profits through the chapter.

Those allegations have not been heard in court, and Theta Chi says on its Web site that a review of the chapter's books indicated no misdeeds.

The arrests included students detained by campus police for minor offenses. Some were released after providing information to investigators, while others were punished with tickets.

Damon Mosler, head of the district attorney's narcotics unit, acknowledged some of the students "got a break," but defended the results as typical for large-scale prosecutions involving multiple defendants, most without criminal histories.

"They're trying to say we wasted our time doing this. Did we? No," Mosler said. "We're just trying to wake people up."

School officials said 22 students have been expelled, and the university is adjudicating additional cases. Those expelled may still be eligible to earn degrees from other institutions.Some people on campus said they think the greatest impact may have been on the university's reputation as it tries to shed its long-standing image as one of the nation's premier party schools.

"It taints the university a little bit," said Erik Blekeberg, 23, who graduated in December and is starting a master's degree in sports psychology there this fall.

An advertising campaign launched after the bust featured prominent alumni, including San Diego's fire chief, affirming their school pride.

Only two fraternities, Theta Chi and Phi Kappa Psi, remain on suspension.

The school has adopted new restrictions on drug and alcohol use for the school year that begins after Labor Day.

Alcohol will be banned at fraternities and sororities for the first five weeks of the academic year, said Doug Case, the school's coordinator for Greek organizations. Previously, only Rush Week parties had to be alcohol-free.

Students planning to rush must complete an online quiz proving they understand the health effects of drinking or taking drugs, as well as the possible legal consequences of being caught, Case said. The new quiz includes stern warnings that students can be expelled for first-time drug violations.

"It really was only a small number of students involved, but regardless, drugs are a scourge in the community," Case said. "In the process of weeding it out, it got a lot of attention, and people may have come to the wrong conclusion that drug use is rampant here."

© 2008 The Associated Press.

How to survive a KKG brush-off: Anthrax

OK, now this is just f***ing weird. The (current) main suspect in the 2001 anthrax letters apparently was obsessed with Kappa Kappa Gamma. All you Kappas out there, better be careful who and how you turn down. There might be a crazed biology nerd in your future.

His decades-long obsession with a college sorority may link a former Army biowarfare scientist to four anthrax-laced letters dropped off at a New Jersey mailbox in 2001, authorities said Monday in the latest twist of one of the most bizarre unsolved crimes in FBI history.

U.S. officials said Bruce Ivins' fixation with Kappa Kappa Gamma could explain one of the biggest mysteries in the case: why the anthrax was mailed from Princeton, N.J., 195 miles from the lab it's believed to have been smuggled from.
[...]
Ivins, 62, killed himself last week as the Justice Department prepared to indict him on capital murder charges for the deaths of five people who were poisoned by the anthrax in the weeks following 9/11. His attorney maintains he would have been proven innocent were he still alive.
[...]
Multiple U.S. officials told The Associated Press that Ivins was obsessed with Kappa Kappa Gamma, going back as far as his own college days at the University of Cincinnati when he apparently was rebuffed by a woman in the sorority. The officials all spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly.
[...]
An adviser to the Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter at Princeton, Katherine Breckinridge Graham, said Monday she was interviewed by FBI agents "over the last couple of years" about the case. She said she could not provide any details about the interview because she signed an FBI nondisclosure form.

So it was a "Kappa gal", and not "Al-Qaeda" that caused all that fuss. Figures.

Sorority may link anthrax suspect to NJ letters

6 fraternities suspended in drug probe at San Diego State

The Greek system at San Diego State has taken a hit, so to speak. Luckily, the good guys - that would be SigEp - have not been implicated. Yet.

Authorities said some fraternity members openly dealt drugs, and that one sent a mass text message advertising special prices on cocaine. Two kilograms of cocaine were seized in all, along with 350 Ecstasy pills, marijuana, psychedelic mushrooms, hash oil, methamphetamine, illicit prescription drugs, several guns and at least $60,000 in cash, authorities said.

Profits may have been used to finance fraternity operations, according to an affidavit.
[...]
The Greek system at San Diego State has about 3,000 students, but Fraternity Row plays an outsized role in campus life. It sits a block from Cox Arena, home to many college sporting events.
[...]
Theta Chi has 131 chapters in the U.S. and Canada and more than 161,000 initiates. It was founded in 1856.

Besides Theta Chi, the other suspended fraternities are Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Theta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Alpha Mu.

Financing chapter operations by dealing coke and ex pays better than bake sales and car washes, and you don't have to hound the brothers to pay their dues.

6 fraternities suspended in drug probe at San Diego State U. - Yahoo! News

SMU Faces History and Aims at Future Solutions

After student deaths, SMU opens with sobering mission
3 deaths awaken campus, but is substance abuse ingrained?
By HOLLY K. HACKER / The Dallas Morning News

UNIVERSITY PARK – Students and parents at Southern Methodist University's orientation watch a film about a fraternity pledge in Massachusetts who died after a rum and beer binge. They learn that half of the nation's high school seniors have tried illegal drugs and that 1,700 college students die each year from injuries tied to alcohol.

The message is particularly painful – and relevant – as this school year begins at SMU.

Between December and May, three undergraduates died of drug or alcohol overdoses. That toll would stand out at any college, but it's especially conspicuous at SMU, a close-knit campus of 11,000 students that has long tried to shake its party-school reputation.

So with dormitories and fraternity houses full again and classes under way, campus leaders are trying new approaches and beefing up past efforts to curb drug and alcohol abuse. Professors and other staffers have ideas of their own.

Will they work? This academic year is a crucial test.

Some faculty, parents and students have criticized SMU's administration for doing too little, too late last year to address substance abuse or investigate the student deaths. A few wonder whether some endeavors, like a task force created by the administration after the fatalities, are more about public relations than the hard work of changing the campus culture.

"The university will say that it's doing a lot, it's putting in place a lot of new programs. But in my estimation, they are things that have been created to look good. It's window-dressing," said George Henson, a Spanish lecturer and one of the most vocal critics.

Others, including campus administrators, say SMU takes the problem seriously and continues to do all it reasonably can.

Emphasis on "reasonably." Because experts say that if SMU's going to make lasting changes, it can't make them alone, especially when drug and alcohol problems seep beyond campus borders.

It's a complicated mission, one that can take years to carry out fully.

"All of us must do more, and more often, to make an impact," SMU President Gerald Turner said in a written statement announcing the task force. It requires a partnership with the campus, parents, students, police and community leaders, he said.

Several students and parents at orientation said they aren't worried, noting that drugs and alcohol are a problem on many campuses.

But Mark Chancey, a religious studies professor, says SMU – and its students – can't fall back on that excuse.

"I think it's fair to say we're not the only ones that have this problem – but we're not responsible for what happens at other campuses. Our question is, what can we do here to improve the situation?"

Names are known
Even if students didn't know them, they now know their names: Jake Stiles. Jordan Crist. Meaghan Bosch. All three died within six months last school year.

First it was Mr. Stiles, a 20-year-old sophomore from Naperville, Ill. In December, just before finals, he was found dead in his room at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. The cause: a mixture of cocaine, alcohol and a prescription painkiller called fentanyl.

Then in early May, Mr. Crist was found unconscious in a dorm room. Two hours later the 19-year-old freshman from Hinsdale, Ill., was dead, his blood alcohol level five times the legal limit.

Just two weeks later, Ms. Bosch, a 21-year-old senior from McKinney, disappeared. A few days later, construction workers found her body in a portable toilet near Waco. She had overdosed on cocaine, methamphetamine and the painkiller oxycodone.

Rick Halperin, who has taught at SMU since 1985, calls the deaths outrageous. He can't recall another year where three students died from that kind of behavior.

SMU held memorial services and offered grief counselors. But some professors and students suggest more could have been done to confront the problem of substance abuse.

"Clearly when you have more than one [death], we should have been having so
me discussion, and I don't recollect that that occurred," said Dr. Halperin, who directs SMU's human rights education program.

Even before the second and third deaths, some students demanded more action. The editorial board of the student newspaper, the Daily Campus , took SMU and Sigma Alpha Epsilon to task for how they handled Mr. Stiles' death, saying it wasn't an isolated incident.

"Talk circulates through campus daily about who is doing what new drug," read an editorial in January. "Other than making a police report, and sending out a few mass e-mails (including a patronizing 'this, children, is why drugs are bad' message) little seems to have been done."

Nearly all students, parents and professors interviewed by The Dallas Morning News said they do not believe SMU has a bigger substance abuse problem compared to most campuses. And, Dr. Halperin added, he doesn't think SMU tried to play down the deaths.

"I just don't think the response was visible enough, vocal enough or informed enough, given the scale of that tragedy," Dr. Halperin said.

SMU administrators say they've responded on multiple fronts and keep doing so.

In June, Dr. Turner announced a task force on substance abuse prevention that includes professors, administrators, students and a parent. The group will evaluate whether SMU's current programs need changes or additions. It also will examine broader factors that can affect students' choices about drinking and drugs, like class schedules that make it easy to start partying early on Friday, and habits students develop before they ever set foot on campus.

"This is a great opportunity to really reinvent what we're doing, if we think that's what we need to do," said Dee Siscoe, dean of student life and co-chair of the task force.

"I am pleased that SMU has formed the task force and is working on additional steps to help with prevention of drug use," Tom Stiles, Jacob Stiles' father, said in an e-mail. "Two areas where I believe they are missing the point are: enforcement of current rules, and doing something to limit accessibility of drugs to at risk students."

"Fentanyl is a horrendous drug. It seems to me that more should have been done to go after the supplier."

Asked whether SMU waited too long to form such a group, Mr. Stiles said, "It's hindsight, but it appears they should've acted sooner rather than waiting until three students have died."

'Party culture'

The task force's mission sounds similar to what another campus committee suggested – almost a year ago.

That committee was formed to study the timing of fraternity and sorority rush and its effect on academic life. But as the group met over the 2005-06 school year the scope widened to include what the group called the "alcohol/party culture at SMU."

In a September 2006 report, it noted that many Greek-sponsored parties happen on Wednesday, Thursday or other school nights. Few classes are held on Fridays, adding to the party culture.

The committee had specific concerns with fraternity and sorority "bus parties," so named because students ride buses to off-campus festivities, often to drink. The report said the campus takes a strict hands-off stance so it cannot be held legally responsible for what happens off campus.

The report said professors on the committee were "frankly stunned," and that SMU "must reconsider this 'see no evil, hear no evil' approach."

The university acted on some recommendations, but not all. For instance, SMU still doesn't monitor off-campus events, but the student affairs office does offer students tips to reduce the chances of trouble at parties.

Other programs encourage students to take responsibility for their conduct and intervene with friends in trouble.

The challenge for students, as university Chaplain William Finnin put it, is: "How do you express care for somebody whom you know may be making some really poor decisions? We felt that this was one way to break that cycle of silence and to provide assistance to students."

SMU has also hired a full-time health educator, a new position this year, to work more with students. On the agenda: a new online newsletter and revamping a peer education program.
Many counseling, training and other programs have been on the Hilltop for years.

SMU continues, like most universities, to discipline students for drug and alcohol violations through both the campus police department and the judicial affairs office.

The university has beefed up its police department, and this summer, SMU police started meeting quarterly on campus with police from Dallas and the Park Cities, plus a North Texas federal drug force. The idea is to meet in person and share information and ideas, said SMU's new police chief, Richard Shafer.

SMU's Center for Teaching Excellence holds an optional faculty roundtable each fall on identifying and helping students with various problems, from cheating to substance abuse. In light of the campus deaths and the Virginia Tech shootings, this year's version will emphasize how faculty can best deal with troubled students.

Dennis Foster, an English professor who sits on the new task force, said it's important for students to take action, too.

"I would like students to be talking more openly about this, so that those who are disturbed by what's going on don't feel isolated in their response," he said.

In fact, many students said they believe SMU officials are doing plenty.

"I think they do what they can. There's a lot that can't be done – I think it's also our choice. We're in college, not high school," said Fabiana Gonzalez, a junior.

Several parents share the same philosophy. Laura Classen, the parent of a new freshman, said she trusts her daughter to make good decisions.

"I'm not any more concerned about her being here than at any other college," Ms. Classen said. "I think they're doing as good a job here as can be done."

Another freshman parent, Elizabeth Briceno, said: "I think in all the colleges you have the same problem. It's not just SMU. I'm not concerned."

Experts say it can take 10 to 15 years to deeply change the culture on campuses. SMU is still widely considered a party school – in fact, the first "bus party" of the year happened last Thursday after the first day of classes. At the same time, this year's entering class has the highest average SAT scores ever, and the greatest number of President's Scholars – a sign that SMU has its share of serious students, too.

Experts say campus leaders must be vigilant and students must take responsibility if the culture is to change. They also can work with off-campus bars and businesses to enforce alcohol laws.

Experts also advocate forging a comprehensive plan with a range of approaches to help students make healthier choices, because no one tactic works for everyone.

"The most effective way to reduce drug and alcohol-related problems is to change the campus and the community environment," said Helen Stubbs, an associate director at the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention. "Students can't make responsible decisions if they're immersed in an environment that's encouraging them to make irresponsible decisions."

WHAT SMU IS DOING
SMU is trying new efforts, and continuing old ones, to prevent student drug and alcohol abuse. Here are some examples.

NEW EFFORTS
• Appointed a substance abuse prevention task force in June. The group is supposed to make recommendations to President Gerald Turner in December.
• Created a program called "Because I Care" to help students intervene with friends who have drug or other problems. That, and a program to prevent alcohol abuse, is required for fraternity and sorority leaders, resident assistants and campus ministers.
• Hired a full-time health educator, a new position this year, to work more with students. On the agenda: A new online newsletter, "Student Health 101," and revamping a peer education program.
• Looking to other campuses for ideas, like Texas Tech University's nationally recognized program for students recovering from drug, alcohol or other addictions.
• SMU's police department recently added three officers and a patrol car to better guard campus. The department also hired a contract agency to handle parking violations, leaving officers more time for more serious pursuits.
• As of this summer, SMU police meet quarterly on campus with their counterparts from Dallas and the Park Cities, plus a North Texas federal drug force. The idea is to meet in person and share information and ideas, said SMU's new police chief, Richard Shafer.
• Spurred by the SMU student deaths and the Virginia Tech shootings, the faculty senate is encouraging all professors to record class attendance. That way, if someone thinks a student is in trouble, a professor can see if that student has been coming to class.

CONTINUING EFFORTS
• First-year students take a required class called "Wellness" that addresses drugs and alcohol, as well as an online alcohol prevention course, which has been deemed valuable by some students and a waste of time by others.
• Students with drug and alcohol violations are disciplined through both the campus police department and the judicial affairs office. In 2005, the most recent year with data available, SMU reported 234 liquor-related arrests and 12 drug-related ones. That same year, SMU reported 299 referrals to judicial affairs for alcohol violations and 26 for drug violations. Many students cited for violations are referred to SMU's Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention for evaluation and education.

WHAT EXPERTS RECOMMEND
Here are some steps experts suggest for reducing substance abuse at colleges:
• Work with local authorities to restrict the number of off-campus stores that sell alcohol.
• Schedule classes on Fridays to cut down on Thursday night parties.
• Enforce drinking and drug laws on campus.
• Work with bar and restaurant owners and police to make sure merchants check IDs, train servers and obey alcohol laws. They should also learn how to spot fake IDs and refuse service.
• Limit where alcohol can be consumed on campus.
• Don't rely solely on educational programs and "scare tactics," like mock drunk-driving crashes.
• Target messages to specific groups of students, such as women, athletes, fraternity/sorority members, etc.
• Invite people from off campus (including area businesses) to join campus substance abuse task forces.
• Give students substance abuse treatment and counseling.
• Encourage police to increase sting operations at local bars and restaurants to check for underage drinking.
• Encourage police to notify college officials of alcohol- and drug-related incidents involving students.
• Make sure students have plenty of activities on campus so they won't rely on drinking parties to socialize.
After student deaths, SMU opens with sobering mission