The Debate

The debate I have identified is if college students are joining greek life for the social and drinking aspect. On page 33 of the book “Dying to Drink”, theres a story of a male named Heideman who joined a fraternity because he thought they were “nicer than that”. Little did he know that the fraternity were heavy drinkers and “alcohol dictated life” . Heideman died from alcohol poisoning and the Case turned into the Heideman Case. An attorney Douglas Fierberg says “The Greek system is the single largest unregulated industry that provides the use of alcohol to underage drinkers” (34). Another debate is that people join Greek life as a sense of freedom and to start drinking. Today alcohol abuse continues to be a epidemic in Greek life and Greek life is committed to alcohol free houses. What should be done is that Greek life should go dry. A disadvantage of this would be that it is difficult to remain alcohol free when others are not. Also there is a lack of sponsors from alumni that feel differently. Liquor stores around campus lose business because of on parties on frat row. And most of all, less students will be interested in joining Greek life. If sorority and fraternity members are not allowed to drink, they will either not join or go as a independent student and not drink with people of there organization and that cant be stopped.