Policy on Open Parties

WHEREAS Theta Xi Fraternity advocates and encourages healthy and wholesome social activities and social behavior for all its members, which should further The Purpose of Theta Xi, and

WHEREAS open parties, defined as those with unrestricted access by non-members of Theta Xi without specific invitation, are seen to inhibit such healthy and wholesome social behavior and constitute a general nuisance to the local fraternity system, the institution of higher learning, and the community, and

WHEREAS Theta Xi Fraternity believes:

• Open parties expose chapters, house corporations, alumni associations, and the officers and individual members of these Theta Xi groups, as well as the national fraternity and the institutions of higher learning which host Thata Xi Chapters and their respective officers and administrators, to serious legal liabilities derived from the abuse of alcohol, the illegal consumption of alcohol, the use of controlled substances, sexual misconduct, and other activities which could bring about civil actions.
• Open parties promote an undesirable image of fraternity life on campus and in the community and are conductive to the impression that Theta Xi Fraternity promotes an atmosphere and philosophy of irresponsible social behavior among its members.
• Open parties promote vandalism, theft, and damage to fraternity, individual, and surrounding property, in addition to a variety of other undesirable behaviors.
• Open parties are conductive to disruptive noise, tremendous litter, uncontrollable crowds, and frequently result in criminal behavior or demonstration, and exhibit a general lack of concern for others.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Theta Xi Fraternity wholeheartedly encourages and recommends that its chapters and members work together with their local campus men's and women's fraternity chapters and their Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils to seek the adoption of similar policies and Statements of Position.

- Adopted August 6, 1988