Comments on: Parties, Social Control, and Greek Life http://whereisyourline.org/2010/07/parties-social-control-and-greek-life/ Empowering young leaders to end sexual violence. Fri, 11 May 2012 21:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Liz http://whereisyourline.org/2010/07/parties-social-control-and-greek-life/comment-page-1/#comment-810 Liz Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:15:56 +0000 http://whereisyourline.org/?p=2062#comment-810 http://cornellsun.com/node/29771 http://cornellsun.com/node/29771

]]> By: Liz http://whereisyourline.org/2010/07/parties-social-control-and-greek-life/comment-page-1/#comment-809 Liz Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:15:28 +0000 http://whereisyourline.org/?p=2062#comment-809 Whenever I bring up this issue everyone tells me, "oh yeah well there is that brothel law." I think it's an urban legend. How absurd is that anyway? I just read this article that was written in the Cornell Daily Sun<http://cornellsun.com/node/29771> back in '08 and Cara Sprunk quotes Richard Roeper from the Chicago Sun Times saying that the brothel law myth is “the most widespread piece of university folklore making the round[s].” Whenever I bring up this issue everyone tells me, “oh yeah well there is that brothel law.” I think it’s an urban legend. How absurd is that anyway?

I just read this article that was written in the Cornell Daily Sun< http://cornellsun.com/node/29771> back in ’08 and Cara Sprunk quotes Richard Roeper from the Chicago Sun Times saying that the brothel law myth is “the most widespread piece of university folklore making the round[s].”

]]> By: Alicia http://whereisyourline.org/2010/07/parties-social-control-and-greek-life/comment-page-1/#comment-808 Alicia Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:45:51 +0000 http://whereisyourline.org/?p=2062#comment-808 @Brian: Do you have citations for these laws? I went to school in Walla Walla, and they told precisely the same story there, to explain why the college sororities had to live in on-campus housing, but the fraternities did not. Seems fishy to me. @Brian: Do you have citations for these laws? I went to school in Walla Walla, and they told precisely the same story there, to explain why the college sororities had to live in on-campus housing, but the fraternities did not. Seems fishy to me.

]]> By: Brian http://whereisyourline.org/2010/07/parties-social-control-and-greek-life/comment-page-1/#comment-807 Brian Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:00:24 +0000 http://whereisyourline.org/?p=2062#comment-807 I agree completely. As someone who lives in a Fraternity house it does give us a lot of power and control and unfortunately as I can see by the stats you've provided it does get out of control. I can only speak for myself and my fraternity but the power we have is very often used to control the vast amount of liabilities that are at a party whether its underage drinking, binge drinking, fighting, or one of about 400 other things that can go wrong. I find it pretty depressing that there exists a stat like gang rape for fraternities it's an unfortunate situation when people abuse the power they have and it gives fraternities and what they should be a bad name. To answer Madeleine there are laws like that. After a certain number of women, males and alcohol in a female owned house can be considered a brothel and therefore illegal. Pretty ridiculous. I agree completely. As someone who lives in a Fraternity house it does give us a lot of power and control and unfortunately as I can see by the stats you’ve provided it does get out of control. I can only speak for myself and my fraternity but the power we have is very often used to control the vast amount of liabilities that are at a party whether its underage drinking, binge drinking, fighting, or one of about 400 other things that can go wrong.

I find it pretty depressing that there exists a stat like gang rape for fraternities it’s an unfortunate situation when people abuse the power they have and it gives fraternities and what they should be a bad name.

To answer Madeleine there are laws like that. After a certain number of women, males and alcohol in a female owned house can be considered a brothel and therefore illegal. Pretty ridiculous.

]]> By: Madeleine http://whereisyourline.org/2010/07/parties-social-control-and-greek-life/comment-page-1/#comment-806 Madeleine Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:43:52 +0000 http://whereisyourline.org/?p=2062#comment-806 I'm not sure if it's an urban legend or not, but people always say that it's some old Virginia law that if a certain number of unrelated women are living in a house (as in the case of a sorority), the addition of alcohol legally classifies it as a brothel? Seems vague enough to be fake, but given some of the laws Virginia still has on the books about women, it's hard to say. I’m not sure if it’s an urban legend or not, but people always say that it’s some old Virginia law that if a certain number of unrelated women are living in a house (as in the case of a sorority), the addition of alcohol legally classifies it as a brothel?
Seems vague enough to be fake, but given some of the laws Virginia still has on the books about women, it’s hard to say.

]]> By: Old Spice Guy ushers in era of post-racial deodorant - The Sexist - Washington City Paper http://whereisyourline.org/2010/07/parties-social-control-and-greek-life/comment-page-1/#comment-805 Old Spice Guy ushers in era of post-racial deodorant - The Sexist - Washington City Paper Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:02:02 +0000 http://whereisyourline.org/?p=2062#comment-805 [...] Liz at THE LINE writes about the problematic social imbalance between fraternities and sororities: The social structure that we lock into as a sorority is, for [...] [...] Liz at THE LINE writes about the problematic social imbalance between fraternities and sororities: The social structure that we lock into as a sorority is, for [...]

]]> By: Ronan Conway http://whereisyourline.org/2010/07/parties-social-control-and-greek-life/comment-page-1/#comment-804 Ronan Conway Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:06:53 +0000 http://whereisyourline.org/?p=2062#comment-804 It's a pretty terrible situation, and one similar to AU - even though the sororities have the capability of having parties, they generally don't, and fraternity parties dominate the social scene. (we're officially a completely dry campus tbh, and all frat parties are against the rules.) It’s a pretty terrible situation, and one similar to AU – even though the sororities have the capability of having parties, they generally don’t, and fraternity parties dominate the social scene. (we’re officially a completely dry campus tbh, and all frat parties are against the rules.)

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