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Danny Pulido, a clerk at Hilyard Street Market, isn’t sure how a dry fraternity system will affect alcohol sales, but he says the students will
probably just go off-campus to party. ‘People are going to keep drinking, no matter what the rules are,’ he said.
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University’s policy will just
cause them to move the parties
out of their houses and into the
neighborhood.
“We’re always going to drink,” Pi
Kappa Alpha member Jake Ha
worth said. “All this means is we
can’t drink here.”
Haworth’s opinion was evident
ly shared by greek members at
Washington State University in
Pullman, Wash. WSU’s administra
tion banned alcohol from fraterni
ties in late 1996, but the problem
didn’t go away.
John Sherman, city supervisor
for the city of Pullman, said the
ban created unforeseen problems
off-campus.
Sherman said fraternities would
rent “party houses” close to cam
pus to continue throwing parties
with alcohol. The rentals generated
many community complaints, and
one house was bulldozed in 1998
just to prevent greek members from
drinking there.
“Obviously, saying that you’re
dry and being dry are two different
things,” he said.
Preventing drunken driving
With University greek members
planning to move parties off cam
pus, some area residents said the
city might see more drunken driv
ing by greek members returning
home inebriated after partying.
“I think (off-campus parties)
are going to happen, and they’ll
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just put the public at risk by
drinking and driving,” said Sue
McGuire, who owns the Alder
Street Market at East 11th Avenue
near fraternities.
Theta Chi member Wes Wallis
said members rarely drive to par
ties, though members of the dry
house currently leave campus
every time they drink.
“If we leave a party,” Wallis said,
“we’ll walk back drunk.”
In Pullman, after greek mem
bers throw parties off campus,
they often walk home rather than
get behind the wheel, according to
Pullman police.
In 1997, the police department
for the city of Pullman logged 196
counts of driving under the influ
ence. Numbers have remained at
that level since then, except in 1998
when the total dropped 25 percent,
then returned to previous levels the
next year.
“Most the parties were all with
in easy walking distance,” Sher
man said.
Greek members like Theta Chi
member John Duley agree that
off-campus parties will become
the norm as the University’s
greek system goes entirely dry.
Many members said they refuse
to go to parties that aren’t within
walking distance — they’re just
not as convenient.
Duley and his fraternity brothers
have learned to live with the rules
of a dry house. Groups of them
usually grab six-packs at the local
market and drink at houses of
members, called “live-outs,” who
live off campus.
Local stores expect their alcohol
sales to remain steady, another in
dication, some say, that greek mem
bers are choosing parties within
walking distance of their homes.
Hilyard Street Market employ
ee Nick Podesta estimates that
students in the greek system buy
25 percent of the alcohol sold at
his store.
Podesta said he doesn’t expect
the ban to change how fraternity
members party.
“That won’t stop them,” said.
“They’ll just drink where they feel
like drinking.”
E-mail reporter Brook Reinhard at
brookreinhard@dailyemerald.com.
News briefs
Students say ‘Women are all
Yellow Jackets everyday’
Saying that the University’s Yel
low Jackets program is not enough
to make campus safe, several area
activists want women to wear yel
low clothes today and carry fliers
reading, “We are all YeMow Jackets
everyday."
The University launched the Yel
low Jackets program early May in
response to recent attacks against
women on campus. The program
consists of a team of volunteers
who patrol campus at night and
serve as the eyes and ears of the De
partment of Public Safety.
“It’s awesome that the Yellow
Jackets is happening and that the
University is doing something
about campus safety,” said Lezlie
Frye, a junior studying history and
women’s studies who is helping or
ganize the event.
Frye said she wants to see
women actively work to make cam
pus safe.
“We’re all Yellow Jackets —
we’re all the eyes and ears on cam
pus,” she said. “Everyone should
be on the lookout.”
— Darren Freeman
Student Senate officially ends
its 2001-02 session
Michael Sherman, Brenda Tlnch
er, Mike Linman, Mena Ravas
sipour, Eric Bailey and Theo Yang
were confirmed as new members of
the ASUO Student Senate at the fi
nal meeting of the 2001-02 school
year on Wednesday night in the
EMU Board Room.
The Senate also approved Kate
Kranzush as Senate president for
the summer and Dominique Beau
monte as the Senate vice president
for the summer.
In other action, senators trans
ferred funds within the Muslim Stu
dent Association to the food account
to cover catering for a presentation
last week put on by student funds.
They also transferred money
within the ASUO Women’s Center
based on the group’s accounting
miscalculations last year.
Project Saferide shifted funds
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and office supplies.
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evening, the Students for Choice
transferred money to advertising
and office supplies.
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