0 A-- 4- w established community standards. The IFC will be an SSO, which means that it will have full access to the University's available resources, and the full responsibilities of being an SSO. The deadline to complete the registration process with SOAR was Feb. 1, 2006. A thousand stu- dent groups have begun the process and are interested in completing it. Seven hundred of these groups have already completed the process. "It appears that the majority who missed the Feb. 1 deadline are still : working on constitutions and clari- fying missions," Eklund said. Eklund pointed out that SAL has received an increasing num- ber of questions for assistance and resources, while at the same time SOAS questions and confusion about financial paperwork have declined following the workshops required of group treasurers. Eklund also said the student com- plaint organization process is work- ing relatively smoothly, relying on existing bodies such as the Greek Activities Review Panel within the Greek system and the Central Stu- dent Judiciary within MSA. GARP has been one of the focal points of the revision to the Social Environment Management Policy which was first introduced in 1991, to control two aspects of parties: the distribution of alcohol, and the size of the party. Risk management: tightening the Greek social policy FC approved a new policy in December 2004, which took effect in January 2005. The new official policy of registered IFC parties is to not provide alcohol. Guests of restricted events are allowed to bring either one 12-pack of beer or one plastic pint of alcohol, which can be a maximum of 80 proof. Par- ties that exceed 200 guests can only bring beer. "The previous policy placed an enormous amount of liability on the chapters by providing alcoholic beverages," IFC spokesman Brian Millman said. "The-bring-your- own-alcohol aspect of the policy is a progressive step to minimizing the liability for the presidents and the members of a particular house." Mary Beth Seiler, Greek life director, said the amount of alcohol one person can bring still seemed a bit high for one individual. "They're still larger than what I think they should be, but the stu- dents have them in line with what they think they should be," Seiler said. Millman said that overall, the old policy was broad and overarching, and could not adequately maintain a safe environment for the varying social atmospheres that fraternities regularly created. A joint task force, composed of members of IFC, vari- ous fraternity presidents and input from the Panhellenic Association, revised the policy in order to main- tain the highest level of risk manage- ment at larger parties and smaller gatherings. The new Social Environment Management Policy divides events into three specific categories: restricted events, alcohol-free events and third-party vendor events. "Ultimately, the (fraternity) presi- dents realized that fraternities host several different types of parties and a party of 30 people potentially poses different risks than a party of 400 people," Millman said. Restricted events are any event that takes place on chapter property, allows alcohol and has more than 25 women in attendance. Presumably, the restriction is placed on the num- ber of women, because there is not a consistent number of men living in any given fraternity house. These events are divided into three sub-categories. Restricted events must have to have applications submitted to I3 T N IY- WN ORDS Making it Big Former University students venture out into the world of professional music By Andrew Horowitz, Tally Hall keyboardist LA-M 5ummer Language f'rograms ntensive cours~es avaIla3 e In I ~- I 4llfat aed kttp://WWW.umlck.CJU/,,I"Inet/s~l, ,- I Y i ' "4 181S Less commonl taught language courses will include: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japa- nese, Kurdish, Latin, Polish, Kussian, and Swedish. Also available: Fundamentals of Teaching F nglish as a Second Language! * tudents magreister