Ball State University Implements 3-Month Prohibition
It’s not been an easy past few weeks for Greek life. It was just announced that Texas State would suspend all Greek life after a pledge sadly lost his life, and last week it was announced that FSU was going full Greek life ban as well, this one also following the death of a pledge.
Well, Indiana’s Ball State university seems to have found a way to solve the problem, or so they think.
From USA Today:
Ball State University’s 13 fraternities have sworn off alcohol at their parties for the next three months, a university official said Tuesday.
The decision to go dry at both gatherings at frat houses and co-hosted events until Feb. 1 was made late Monday after the university’s Greek Life staff met with the fraternity presidents at an Interfraternity Council meeting
As you can imagine, school administration is 100% on board with the idea, but I’m less than thrilled. I trust fraternities saying they’re going “alcohol free” as much as I trust Mexican tap water or dollar store condoms. It’s easy to say hard to follow. You remember the last time alcohol was made illegal? If a country full of law enforcement and FBI couldn’t enforce it, I don’t think an IFC council can.
At the end of the day, this seems like an elaborate, try-hard plow to get the administration to stay on Greek life’s good side. It does seem like a pretty drastic measure, that Ball State itself never asked for, but was kind of just volunteered by them.
The alcohol ban ends February 1. I wouldn’t last that long sober..
[via USA Today]
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7 years ago at 4:21 pm4 deaths this year and multiple other incidents like the 30 hospital visits during Michigan vs MSU week need to start raising some eyebrows inside the fraternity community. Yes fraternities get targeted a lot for things we don’t do but when events like what happened at FSU, LSU, Texas Stats, and Penn State start happening fraternity systems need to start looking at how things are being run and what is regular in fraternity culture. Greek life can be so beneficial to the community and create lifelong friendships but when things like Tim Piazza keep keep happening instead of making excuses we need to look at what we can do to have fun and not have events like this in the future happen to greek members. Sorry for going dad mode but it’s a conversation that needs to happen at more schools across the country. Now ball state is probably implementing an ineffective mode of combating this but at least they are trying. I won’t argue with an institution trying to avoid another headline “Fraternity Brother Dies of Alcohol Poisoning”. okay rant over.
7 years ago at 12:59 pm