The University of Virginia is renegotiating its contract with fraternities, which were suspended after a Rolling Stone article described a frat house gang rape. Even though that article has been called into question, U.Va. is sticking with its vow to make changes — and that includes President Teresa Sullivan's plan to crack down on excessive and underage drinking at frat houses.
But the way to do that may not be easy.
There are dry fraternities, but that idea was quickly dismissed. Tommy Reid, head of U.Va.'s Inter-Fraternity Council, told the Board of Visitors, the school's governing body, it would simply drive drinking parties underground.
"Then they're going to happen in parking lots and random places. This is a problem that is not going to be solved by simply eliminating it. It's a problem of regulation and control," Reid says.
So how do you regulate something illegal? Sullivan suggests one place to start: those big garbage cans full of hard liquor brew.
[For more of this story, written by Jennifer Ludden, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/healt...g-at-its-frat-houses]
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