<p>I'm an international student and I am going over this Mock Trial case that
involves Fraternity/Sorority parties and the problem with underage drinking.
In my country, we do not have official frats or sororities and the drinking age limit is 19. We do have problems with people dying from drinking too much, (I guess the peer pressure, and the general notion that "drinking a lot is cool" is universal.) Well, I just wanted to know more about the system of Frats/Sororities and if anybody knows some REAL cases involving Frats/Sororities as defendants, on the issue of parties and the damage I would be grateful. I heard Princeton has many Eating clubs and fraternities/sororities, so I'm putting this post in Princeton section. </p>
<p>The Plaintiff is this freshman student, who wants to be a professional dancer.
He/she is very popular and is used to drinking parties since highschool. Once he/she even walked over a bon-fire bare-feet after getting a little drunk.(this was in highschool.) He/she joined this frat/sorority which is the biggest and the coolest in school. This group throws several big parties a year and the parties are mainly about drinking(drinking games, drinking..etc)</p>
<p>One party in January the plaintiff drinks six coke and rum drinks and jumps of the balcony on the third floor. He/she thought it would look really cool to jump into the pool-unfortunately the plaintiff hit his/her leg on the side of the pool(the rest of the body made it into the pool)
Now the plaintiff is permanantly damaged and needs surgeries.</p>
<p>One fact is that the leader of the Frat/Sorority had this system. When they hired a move-in bar to serve the drinks at the party, the frat/sorority and the bar agreed to pass out bracelets. Red for under and blue for over 21.
The plaintiff got the red one of course(and the president was going around checking if everybody were wearing the right bracelets) However nearly everyone managed to get alcohol and many who were under 21 were probably drunk.</p>
<p>What I want to ask is,
1. if there had been a similar case in real life, does the frat/sorority (or the hosts of the party) ususally compensate for the damage?
2. does underage drinking occur a lot in many college frat/sororities?
(I don't mean only Princeton, I want to know-in general)
3. (I think there would have been many similar cases like the one above) so has there been similar cases(doesn't have to involve underage drinking), and what was the result?
4. is there any supervision about frat/sorority drinking? If there is, how does it work?</p>
<p>and, a personal question,
5. Can internationals join?
What's the criteria in selecting the members?
(they sound really cool, and I think the fraternities and sororities provide the best chances to get good connections and get help with studying, and have fun...etc)</p>