A Drinking Balance For St. Patrick’s Day

Technically, a lot of fraternities aren’t’ supposed to be having day parties today but come on, it’s St. Patrick’s Day. Parties and drinking are going to happen. Even so, the Interfraternity Council is trying to clamp down on all the daytime festivities:

If a fraternity has an event that isn’t registered prior to taking place, it is subject to social probation, the maximum sanction of which is six weeks of social probation, Miniaci wrote in the e-mail interview.

Miniaci wrote that IFC’s Social Responsibility Committee will be “on rounds” tonight to look for the possibility of unregistered events. He added that he spoke with Sigma Pi’s president and was informed that the fraternity will not be hosting the event at night, though according to a Facebook event, the fraternity has an event planned during the day today.

And if you were outside at all today you saw that that policy really strikes fear into the hearts of  every Irish heritage faithful greek…All of which makes me wonder though, is there any way to find an agreeable balance between the safety and legality the IFC is trying to encourage and the fun times the frats are trying to have?

–Daniel Strauss