12 - The Michigan Daily - Orientation Edition 2005 0 Greeks New regulations limit party size, implement BYOB policy By Kyle Herrala and Justin Miller Daily Staff Reporters Yesterday marked the final step for a new social policy that will rad- ically change Greek system parties next semester. The Interfraternity Council adopt- ed an amendment last night that "strongly encourages" fraternity houses to have people sign waivers when entering a party. This proposi- tion is optional for houses, unlike the requirements passed last week for parties requiring that Greeks must limit the number of guests at their parties, register parties in advance, adopt a bring-your-own alcohol pol- icy and include monitors at the door and inside. While the changes will require the Greek system to restrict and moni- tor the number of people attending fraternity parties, they will still be open to all University students, and not just members of the Greek sys- tem. The Greek community has approve party changes adopted these changes to make monitoring level of each party by party with numerous SRC monitors. parties safer, keep them fun and SRC. No matter what the size of the to reduce chapters' liability in the The first tier will allow 100 people party, all attendees must show their event of a lawsuit, said Alan Lovi, or fewer to attend, including frater- Mcard at the door and bring their IFC spokesman. The changes take nity members living in that house. own alcohol, which may be up to a effect next semester, but there will Monitors from SRC will be required six-pack of beer or one pint of liquor be no fraternity parties for the to attend the party. SRC monitors per person. Once inside, a person first weekend after classes begin would regulate party attendance at will have the option of holding their because new Social the door alcohol or keeping it at a check-in Responsibility and try to station where it will be given back Committee moni- Party On keep the to them when they ask for it. tars must be trained party safe In addition, some houses may ask before they can Greeks will limit the number of inside. people to sign a waiver, drafted by a watch over parties. people attending parties and Once the lawyer, which aims to reduce frater- "There's two have monitors at the door party nities' liability for partygoers' negli- real big challenges reaches gence. Pi Kappa Alpha already uses - execution of the The number of party monitors its limit, this waiver at all of its parties. plan and enforce- will depend on the number of the SRC "I think that it may be a good idea ment," said Dustin guests invited to the party moni- to help the problems that have been Schmuldt, incom- A bring-your-own-alcohol policy tors must associated with frat parties," said ing vice president was adopted prohibit LSA junior Lisa Gluck, who did not of social policy. more peo- attend the meeting. "But it's going to "We want to educate Greek officials said they ple from be difficult to enforce it." people that we're adopted the changes to make going in New IFC members will be par- not ostracizing (stu- parties safer and reduce until oth- tially in charge of enforcing the dents), and to make fraternities' liabilities in ers leave. social policy they adopted when them realize that our lawsuits Sec- their new members take office and parties were out of ond-tier the policy take effect next month. control." parties will allow twice as many "There's a lot of pressure I'm putting Fraternities must register parties people and require more SRC mon- on myself to get things done," said and tell SRC, a board that ensures itors. incoming IFC President Michael adherence to party regulations, how The third tier will be the larg- Caplan. "By no means is our com- many people will be in attendance. est permitted by the Greek system, munity perfect. We're aspiring to A tier system, contingent on the esti- allowing fraternity members and keep building on the foundation mated guest list, will determine the from 200 to 400 extra people in a that was built before us." CRIME NOTES Drinking fountain ripped out of wall September 13, 2004 Early Friday morning, a DPS officer filed a malicious destruction report after finding a drinking fountain removed from the wall of Mary Markley Resi- dence Hall. Vending machine broken into at 'U' golf course November 10, 2004 0 A vending machine at the University Golf Course was broken into, according to a DPS report from Monday morning. DPS has no suspects in the case. Caller allegedly groped by hospital employee December 3, 2004 0 - r -r File-sharing suit focuses on Internet2 A caller reported being harassed by a University Hospital employee Wednes- day night, according to DPS. The caller claimed to have been groped improperly. The hospital employee was arreste and taken to the Washtenaw County Jail Car window broken, gas cap stolen April 15, 2005 By Chris Gaerig Daily Arts Writer The Recording Industry Associa- tion of America - the group respon- sible for the production and distribution of 90 percent of the legal music in the United States - will again ratchet up its presence on many college campuses. The RIAA announced this week that it would be filing copyright infringement violations against 405 students from 18 campuses across the country. There are currently no University students among those that will be facing charges. The target of this slew of lawsuits is the Internet2application i2hub. Internet2 is a high-speed network on campuses across the nation, including the Univer- sity, where it was originally developed. Unlike most file-sharing applications, not all students are able to utilize i2hub and Internet2. Some of the specifications for use are "at least IOM bps switched access to a lOOM bps departmental net- work," the network must support mul- ticast services and "workstations must be able to sustain high bandwidth appli- cations" according to the University's Internet2 site. Internet2 is currently being utilized on campus primarily for research. Alex Ade - who worked on the Vis- ible Human Project - said that he had not heard of illegal file sharing across the network. He said VHS consists of staff and researchers who have little interaction with the student body on the network. i2hub - a program much like Nap- ster that runs exclusively on Internet2 - makes sending and receiving files on the high-speed network easy and effi- cient. The peer-to-peer application is easily downloadable and usable by any- one with Internet2. "Downloading from i2hub via Internet2 is extremely fast - in most cases, less than five minutes for a movie or less than 20 seconds for a song," according to the RIAA's official press release. RIAA President Cary Sherman said these lawsuits aren't simply a witch- hunt. "Internet2 is an amazing network that holds great promise. We can't let it be hijacked for illegal purposes from the outset," he said. Although Sherman stressed that "col- lege students are not the primary target," he added that the RIAA has identified students at 140 unnamed universities across the nation for possible future liti- gation. For the time being, they are opt- ing to only prosecute 25 students from each university. "Today's lawsuits are different in that we focused on i2hub, which is uniquely available on college campuses. Hence the focus on students in this round only," Sherman added during an online inter- view. The RIAA plans to send notices and warnings to the presidents of the iden- tified schools. Sherman said he hopes that these messages and cautionary announcements from the university heads will stifle the growth of Internet file-sharing. 4 March 30, 2005 A caller reported at about 12:34 a.m. on Tuesday that his friend's car was broken into while parked at the carport on Church Street. According to DPS, the driver's side window was smashed in and the gas cap was stolen. Intruder scared away at "hello" April 6, 2005 A woman said an intruder entered her home at about 1:30 a.m. yesterday, but immediately left after she called out "hello" to him, according to the Ann Arbor Police Department. The woman, who lives on the 1000 block of Vaughn Street, said the door was unlocked because she was expecting her roommate tocomehome. The woman said she saw a man walking down the hallway to her bedroom, but he quickly left after she called out to him, police said. 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