As if this were not humiliation enough, registration of these parties ensures that monitors will check up on the behavior of supposedly adult students. While these monitors are supposed to be observing to ensure everybody's safety, they are usually more concerned with whether houses have committed some obscure and irrelevant infraction such as not having enough non-salty snacks. Monitors are forced to look for tiny technicalities to appease their organizations, to keep playing this game. Fraternity members have even been abandoned by those at the highest levels who claim to serve their interests. The international organizations of many fraternities are frightened by the current climate, and a few have gone so far as to ban alcohol in their chapter houses.
Most fraternities count the building of men and of leaders among their goals.
Unfortunately, recent events have caused these fraternities to abandon these ideals in favor of protecting themselves from public criticism and lawsuits, instead, treating their members like children. One of the most disturbing ways in which international fraternities are failing their undergraduates is by not forcing them to accept responsibility for their own actions. On many occasions, someone has injured himself after becoming drunk at a fraternity party, and then gone on to sue the fraternity for serving them the alcohol. The internationals wisely act to minimize liability, but they will never criticize the individual in question. International fraternities need to stand up for the principle of individual responsibility.