Right now, there's a 16-year-old high school kid somewhere who likes playing his music too loud and eats too much pizza. He hates his pimple-ridden complexion, but loves having his driver's license.
In a couple of years, he will enroll in college and join a fraternity. he will take advantage of the lack of parental supervision to engage in the time-honored college student rite of engaging in all manner of bad habits. He will experiment with smoking, but will give it up, because he will remember all those gory health films he had to watch in high school. He doesn't want to get throat polyps.
He will also experiment with drinking, and one night he will get drunk and try to drive back to his fraternity house. He would have stayed at the house, but his fraternity banned alcohol consumption on all chapter property in 2000. On the way home, he will get into an accident because of his intoxication, and he will kill someone, be killed himself, or both.
if Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Nu have their way, something like this will come to pass. The two fraternities are attempting to take steps that would restrict alcohol from all fraternity houses. With this misguided attempt at setting a positive, anti-alcohol example, the organizations may have their hearts in the right place, but they have left their senses far behind.
Fraternities are supposed to be about brotherhood, not parenthood, and not supposing members will have enough sense to drink responsibly is a slap in the face to them.
People who want to drink will find a way to do so. Why not let them drink at home, instead of practically giving them keys to an alcohol-and-gasoline-powered engine of death?