Eight national fraternities also will ban booze by 2003, regardless of the policies on those campuses. After last year's deaths of fraternity pledges at Louisiana State University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the groups want to remarket their image, reemphasize their leadership ideals, and guard against hazing and other risks that make insurance costs skyrocket. It's almost like lowering someone's salary after raising it. But this change needs to be made. Some critics question whether booze bans can be enforced, however, and wonder if they will prevent people from wanting to go Greek.
People join because they're going to party, drink beer, meet girls.
And there are other things when you get past that, but that's the initial draw. Greco belonged to Theta Chi, one of the eight national fraternities that had decided to go dry before his death. A cultural shift Most fraternities did not allow alcohol until the 1950s, amid a cultural shift prompted in part by World War II veterans, mostly older students, who moved into fraternity houses as house mothers moved out. Fraternities also want to improve their reputations. Some colleges provide only alcohol-free dorms, including Villanova and West Chester University, where officials banned liquor years ago.