A cool rush video should not make their choice. Casual conversation and relationships should be the deciding factor. Opening the houses makes that more likely. Those against opening houses early argue that allowing freshmen on greek property involves a huge increase in liability. This is true.
Conventional wisdom says freshmen binge drink without knowing their limits.
And a house is legally responsible for a freshman that gets sick or injured there. But houses faced that risk even before rush moved to second semester. As early as two years ago, houses opened right after rush - in September, earlier than this current proposal. Besides, fraternities run the same risk with the other 1,500 students who could party at their houses. Ultimately, fraternities must accept that they can't live in secrecy forever.