<p>I have a friend with a freshman at W&L. According to the student, she can not attend a frat party without a date. My friend seems to think this is a school policy, but I just can not imagine. Can someone shed some light on this and let me know what the "rule" is, is this a school or Greek system rule, and is this written somewhere that my friend can see it?</p>
<p>If I don't get an answer for her on this, she will be asking during parent's weekend. I am trying to save her some embarrassment as she is really upset about this. My guess is more to this than having all parties dated.</p>
<p>For the fraternity parties that happen every weekend, or the cocktail parties and dinners of date weekends? (The only two date events in the fall are homecoming and Christmas weekend, plus the Mock Con gala this year). Nobody has dates to regular parties. As for date events, they’re called date events for a reason. I suppose you could show up at a fraternity dinner or cocktail party without a date, but it might be a little awkward, especially for a freshman. Some girls without dates go to fraternities where they have lots of friends and it works out just fine. There is definitely no school policy that requires all girls to have dates in order to attend fraternity parties.</p>
<p>I know it was this Saturday night, so I am thinking it was the homecoming party. My friend got the impression that all fraternity parties were date only. I don’t know if her daughter thought that was how it was, or the mom misunderstood.</p>
<p>Your answer will save my friend from going ballistic during some parent’s weekend event! Thank you for your help; I knew this couldn’t be true that all parties required the girls to have a date. Having date only parties a few times a year is understandable.</p>
<p>It was probably homecoming which just happened. Different frats have their dinner/cocktail party night on different nights…some Friday and some Saturday. After that part of the evening the parties usually open up. Other than homecoming and christmas weekend the other date weekends would be specific sorority or fraternity formals which are usually at a different location and only include members of those Greek groups and their dates. Many weekends a frat and srat will have a mixer which starts off with just the two groups but is open to entire student body after a certain point (10pm?).</p>
<p>For the real scoop have the first year talk to hall advisors, they know whats up.</p>