<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>A contributor to the problem . . .</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:A80B638F-80E8-4F6D-9B3B-BBED9CB4F2D5" alt="image.jpeg" id="A80B638F-80E8-4F6D-9B3B-BBED9CB4F2D5" width="640" height="426"><br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div><div><br>On Apr 17, 2013, at 2:39 PM, "Saundra Lund" <<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Visionaries:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m so glad Ron Force posted the article <b>Animal House on Steroids</b> from <i>The Chronicle of Higher Education</i>, and I’m grateful for the discussion thus far that’s followed. I, too, have been absolutely gob-smacked by the relative community silence about the Joe Wiederrick’s heartbreakingly preventable death – in many other communities, such a tragedy would have been seized as a teachable moment. So far, we’ve seen virtually <b>no</b> community-wide response, and the UI’s official response to date has been almost predictably anemic with the formation of yet two more task forces. I’ve had the 4/6/2013 <i>Daily News</i> gathering dust and taking up space on my desk for too long now while waiting for my blood to stop boiling, but today that ends.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In part, Wayne Fox wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“</span>It's revealingly ironic that UI/WSU would consider the last place to look for guidance/solutions for this problem would be peer reviewed academic journals.”<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I completely agree with the above, and I cannot adequately express my disappointment at that, but even worse for me is that the UI’s response to Joe’s death includes two task forces, one of which, it seems to me, is virtually destined to fail due to the beyond puzzling choice of at least one of those appointed to Greek life task force: Carl Berry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">However successful Mr. Berry may have been in the business world and working for & with his frat Sigma Nu, his knowledge and education seem to have stopped back in the Dark Ages because why else would his offensive opinion about <b>the morals of women</b> have any place in a Greek life task force looking at the indisputable role the Greek system played in Joe Wiederrick’s death?!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;line-height:125%;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Women's morals have also changed since then, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;line-height:125%;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">"They feel more sexually free, and there seems to be little hesitancy in going to a fraternity and meeting a boyfriend and doing what they do," Berry said, adding sororities have full-time house directors to keep boys and alcohol out. "Some of the girls that want to have behavior that might not belong in the sorority have to go out of the sorority."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> And, as offensive as that comment is, just as bad, it seems to me, is Berry’s . . . .extremely selective and/or faulty memory of the past, a phenomena I call “Glory Days-ing”:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">"I was in a frat back in the dark ages," Berry said, adding beer was present, but chugging vodka seems to be a preference these days. "That certainly was not the case when I was in school. We had a couple beers and that was it."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Even if one is willing to accept Berry’s comments as being accurate <b>for himself </b>at the UI, the problem is that perception most <b>certainly was NOT</b> accurate for the Greek system at the UI back then. Talk to folks who taught at and those who lived on campus back in Berry’s era, and you’ll hear about the frequent and wild Greek times where very few partying had just “a couple of beers!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Further, if Mr. Berry’s association with the Greek system had ceased back when he graduated from the UI in the 1960s, perhaps one could understand his utter lack of awareness about the fact that active membership in the Greek system has long been recognized as one of <b>the top risk factors for excess alcohol consumption in college</b>, but Mr. Berry <b>hasn’t</b> been absent from the Greek system since then, and his particular fraternity – Sigma Nu – has earned quite the place in the Greek Hall of Shame, both locally and nationally. Indeed, given his long experience with Sigma Nu, a student’s death directly related to excess alcohol consumption on Greek premises certainly isn’t new to him </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">L</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Has college drinking changed since Mr. Berry’s time in the Dark Ages? It – along with how we look at the issue -- has certainly changed several times since then, but based on the UI stories I’ve heard about from Berry’s years,” I’m not convinced it’s changed nearly as radically as Mr. Berry’s memory seems to indicate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Call me jaded, but I don’t have much confidence that any meaningful suggestions are going to come out of “yet another task force” when those selected to serve have a vested interest in perpetuating the flawed status quo, particularly when perhaps the most senior member of that task force is someone who genuinely doesn’t seem to have a flippin’ clue <b>in spite</b> of his long history in the Greek system. The historic message sent by the UI to the Greek system has been that it can get away with anything without University consequences.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Frankly, it seems to me that the Greek system has proven itself to be spectacularly unsuited to police itself. Let’s not forget that alcohol-related deaths and accidents directly related to over-consumption on Greek premises have been identified as a serious issue for somewhere in the neighborhood of <b>thirty years</b> now, and even disregarding the bigger national picture and looking just at the local UI/WSU picture, the picture continues to be unacceptably grim.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And, call me jaded, but I have grave concerns about the UI’s interest in or willingness to address serious issues. I’m sure none of us have forgotten the tragic murder of Katy Benoit and her family’s determination to ensure Katy’s death wasn’t forgotten. As I recall, part of the Benoit family’s settlement with the UI was that the family received a very modest financial settlement, which the family then gave at least some back to the University for the “Katy Benoit Memorial Fund.” The UI’s theme for the 2012 Katy Benoit Safety Forum was “I Got Your Back”:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.uidaho.edu/studentaffairs/health-education/i-got-your-back">http://www.uidaho.edu/studentaffairs/health-education/i-got-your-back</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">While the idea seems to be a good one, the UI’s delivery was a failure-- at least within the Greek system -- because <b>not a single one of the dozens of Vandals</b> present that party night at the SAE house had Joe’s back or his dorm mate’s back.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And, call me jaded, but I have absolutely zero confidence that the UI is serious about addressing the rampant alcohol abuse within the Greek system because the UI’s actions – or lack thereof – speak louder than the words. I’m going to assume that everyone knows what Vandal Friday is, yes? For those who don’t know, check out:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/vandal-friday/">http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/vandal-friday/</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We’ll roll out the red carpet for you and your parents and show you what life as a VIP at the University of Idaho is really all about.”</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The most recent Vandal Friday was just a couple of weeks back on 5 April. While strolling around campus, what do you suppose a visitor might have seen?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If your guess is an outdoor kegger before 4 PM at one of Greek houses near the Perch, your guess would be accurate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If you also guessed that no one was checking IDs, you’d also be correct. . . but perhaps the kegger – like all alcohol-soaked Greek parties -- was only for those they “know for a fact are 21 and over.” Riigghhtt. And, that’s just such a great message to send to new Vandals and potential Vandals, isn’t it? As one person observed of that spectacle, it certainly will attract a certain kind of student, but that’s probably not the kind of student the UI should be interested in attracting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Does the UI not realize how absolutely <b>insane</b> it is to parents, students, potential students, and the community as a whole that is has absolutely no mechanism in place to deal with the fatal behavior exercised at SAE, a fraternity that was mandated to be dry because of previous <b>serious</b> dangerous alcohol-related behavior?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In my opinion, the Greek system has no place in the UI community so systematically <b>determined</b> to turn a blind eye to chronic, inexcusable, dangerous, and even fatal behavior within the Greek system, and that we-the-taxpayers are footing the bill for “</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">University professional staff who are employed to advise the Greek organizations” is beyond obscene.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">While Rose linked to some good articles, for those interested in a great read, I <b>highly recommend</b> reading <b>The Drinking Game</b> written by history professor Marshall Poe published in <i>Policy Review</i> in 2010, which gives a brief yet highly informative history of college drinking:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/49796">http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/49796</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The opening is particularly powerful, and I cannot help but think that Joe would not have died had he wound up at Professor Poe’s house.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">While I don’t agree with everything Poe wrote, I do think the entire article is worth reading, and I’ll include just a couple of excerpts to give an idea of how not everyone shares Mr. Berry’s desire to minimize the long history of alcohol on college campuses in the US:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="smallcaps1"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#434A44">Americans have been</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#434A44"> wrestling with college drinking for so long that they’ve forgotten there was a time when they didn’t. Prior to World War II there were a number of “crises” on American campuses — loutish behavior at football games, the introduction of the research-heavy “German Method,” the corruption of coeds — but excessive college drinking was not among them. As one turn-of-the-century commentator put it, drinking was simply a “conventional college sin,” an innocent excess afforded to a small class of youth from better families. The fact that collegians routinely got plastered just wasn’t news. When it was, it was treated lightly . . . <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#434A44"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#434A44">. . . In truth, college drinking had never been high on academic research agendas as it wasn’t seen as a major problem. The first serious study in the field was not produced until <span class="smallcaps1">1952</span>; two decades passed before it was “followed up.” At the time Wechsler started his work, the conventional wisdom — the fruit of the <span class="smallcaps1">1952</span> survey — was that there really was no such thing as “college drinking”: College students drank at the same rate as their noncollege peers (about three-fourths of them imbibed) and they learned to do so at home, not in college. Later studies of the early and mid-<span class="smallcaps1">1970</span>s did little to change this impression, not because they didn’t challenge it — some did — but because they were not widely reported. In <span class="smallcaps1">1978</span>, however, Wechsler conducted a survey of New England undergraduates that suggested a significant increase in the percentage of drinking students: Researchers found that <span class="smallcaps1">74</span> percent drank in <span class="smallcaps1">1952</span>; Wechsler found that <span class="smallcaps1">95</span> percent drank in <span class="smallcaps1">1978</span>. He also claimed that students in his study were drinking harder: In <span class="smallcaps1">1952</span> two-thirds of men and one-third of women said they had been drunk at least once; in <span class="smallcaps1">1978</span> five-sixths of men and three-fourths of women said the same. . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#434A44"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#434A44">. . . For most of the <span class="smallcaps1">20</span>th century, Americans viewed college drinking as a nonevent, not a sort of sickness. This is understandable, for the number of college students was small. In <span class="smallcaps1">1900</span>, two percent of eighteen- to <span class="smallcaps1">24</span>-year-olds matriculated, so it was simple for “us” to ignore what “they” did. The fact that we changed our minds in the <span class="smallcaps1">1980</span>s is equally understandable, for the number of college students had by then grown very large. In <span class="smallcaps1">1980</span>, <span class="smallcaps1">40</span> percent of eighteen- to <span class="smallcaps1">24</span>-year-olds went to college, so college drinking was harder to stomach because “they” had become “us.” Our children were drinking themselves out of school, out of careers, and out of life itself. No wonder we were ready to accept that college drinking — though it had not changed in any major way — had suddenly become a public health crisis.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If anyone has read through all this, you’ve earned a gold star!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’ll just end by saying that I’m not some Pollyanna with unrealistic ideas that the UI can somehow magically stop alcohol over-consumption by students over or under 21.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I do, however, firmly believe that the current culture of alcohol excess – particularly within the Greek system – on the UI campus is a <b>product</b> of the UI’s chronic not-so-benign neglect of failing to adequately and appropriately address the problem. Continuing the same dysfunctional and ineffective approach isn’t what I expect of my alma mater.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Even crazier, it seems to me, is that the UI doesn’t seem to recognize that too many of the parents of the students it wants to attract are deciding it just may not <b>safe</b> to send their kids here, and is it any wonder? I think most parents realize that their college-aged kids are going to engage in some really stupid & unhealthy behaviors, but too many times in more recent years, the consequences of those bad choices for young adults at the UI & WSU have been the death penalty or have resulted in serious injury, and <b>that’s</b> what sticks in the minds of parents. It takes years of good PR to outweigh those tragedies in the minds of conscientious parents, and the tragedies here are coming too darn close together.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Saundra<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a> [<a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Art Deco<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 17, 2013 7:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] UI alcohol policy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Rose,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Thank you for the amount of time and effort that you have taken on this matter. It's a serious matter not only at UI but at WSU as well.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">It's revealingly ironic that UI/WSU would consider the last place to look for guidance/solutions for this problem would be peer reviewed academic journals. The arrogance and isolation of university administration from the real world is mind boggling, and explains in part their misguided, counterproductive, and poor public policy reluctance to share public records.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">But as long as only 2 or three deaths or serious maimings occur per year, the UI/WSU nonchalance, ignorance, and arrogance is likely to continue. Students are expendables except in large quantities.<br><br>w.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Rosemary Huskey <<a href="mailto:donaldrose@cpcinternet.com" target="_blank">donaldrose@cpcinternet.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">For several months I have tried to find out more about the University of Idaho’s handling of alcohol offenses on campus. Stonewalled is a gracious description for the response of UI Staff Counsel, Guilherme Costa, to my public records requests. To be absolutely fair, it is possible that he was just following orders. Perhaps he would have provided some information if I had been willing to part with the amount of money he quoted to find the information I requested - $1,500 initially and after I modified my request for information (downloading a simple data base) $500.00. I passed up both opportunities. Last week, I received the following note from Matthew Kurtz, UI Greek advisor. It was my first communication from him. A note I sent to UI Staff Counsel, Guilherme Costa, found its way to him. I read it and my head exploded, (as it is occasionally wont to do ). I responded to him, President Nellis, Bruce Pitman, and the State Board of Education. None of them will give a hoot but something needs to be said. From the silence of the community following the death of Joseph Widerrick to the inability of the University of Idaho to take meaningful action we should all be ashamed. And yes, I know that no one was forcing Joseph Widerrick to drink so recklessly, but that is not my point. The University failed him by allowing, indeed in my opinion encouraging, a dangerous attractive nuisance, the fraternity system, to thrive unchecked, on campus. The community failed him by their silence and by inaction when he desperately needed help as he wandered in a confused state on the coldest night of the year. That young man could have been any of my sons during their goofy years, or my brothers when they were in fraternities. I am betting they could have been your sons, daughters, sisters or brothers as well. Eighteen year old kids just do stupid things sometimes. We must speak up even when we are ignored or treated as bitchy pests. What happened to Joseph Widerrick was wrong on so many levels and cannot be ignored.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">Rose Huskey<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">*****<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">Good Morning Matthew Kurtz<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">Thank you for your prompt response to my recent note. As you are aware I have profound concerns about the Greek system at the University of Idaho. The number of alcohol related injuries, near fatalities, and fatalities as a consequence of the unsupervised grouping of feral adolescent males is a recipe for continual damage to the wellbeing of students and the reputation of the University of Idaho. Never has that tired old cliché ‘lay down with dogs come up with fleas’ been more relevant – and in the minds of many people, including alumni like me (undergraduate and graduate degrees) - been more aptly applied to describe the relationship between UI administration and fraternity members. The University is correctly perceived, in my opinion, as weak and obsequious toward fraternity members’ unabashed criminal behavior. This curiously lop sided relationship is best described in your own words, “As for sanctions levied by the University against the fraternity, there are no policies currently in place where we would have the ability to sanction the chapter.” Help me to understand, Matthew Kurtz, what kind of mindset defends the notion that a privately owned home is permitted to be a public nuisance despite decades of underage drinking, drug use, sexual assaults, injury and alcohol related fatalities?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">I read the list of alcohol educational programs that have recently been conducted at the University of Idaho. The time, energy, and money poured into these efforts is clearly wasted. The SAE house was supposed to be dry. According to statements provided to Moscow Police Department, they were on probation for previous alcohol offenses. (Apparently the probation came from their national organization. Who do you suppose monitors that requirement? Do you think for a nanosecond that they self-report infractions?) The probation is meaningless. Drinking and “family nights” - an extremely offensive term when used to describe alcohol related event with sororities - were mentioned in some of the police statements. So were the terms “just social drinking” and “casual drinking” as routine occurrences. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">You bring fresh meaning to the word <i>chutzpah</i>, Matthew Kurtz. You claim – apparently in connection to alcohol education efforts - that “Though this method has shown a reduction in risky behavior with our Greeks there is still work to be done.” Indeed, your office has work to be done starting with <b>not</b> tolerating frat parties that lead to a young man freezing to death under a bridge on the coldest night of the year. It is a mercy that his companion, Joe Stellers, didn’t freeze to death as well. He was so inebriated that when he left the SAE house that night he wandered over fields two miles south of Moscow before finally turning back toward Moscow and making it to his dorm. In your role as Greek Advisor, do you ever drop by fraternity houses uninvited and unexpectedly on a Friday or Saturday night to observe firsthand what those self-entitled little gits are up to? What do you mean by the phrase “our Greeks”? Who is your allegiance to, the University of Idaho, the citizens of Idaho who provide you with a salary and benefits, or the boys who are causing so many problems and so much pain? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">The alcohol programs instituted at the University of Idaho and their look-a-like clones have been studied extensively. Research demonstrates that they are what we used to call “busy work” offering the appearance of learning/teaching but generally pointless in effect. The following journal articles may provide you with additional background on the topic. As a professional you must be aware that <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">peer reviewed journal articles on the topic of substance abuse uniformly stress that members of Greek houses have a much higher rate of alcohol abuse than other students. Young men, specifically, those who pledge Greek houses generally bring with them to college a long history of alcohol and drug abuse. They <u>seek</u> the Greek living experience to enjoy the convenience of easy access to alcohol, and encouragement of all that it entails<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><a href="http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1923/Drug-Alcohol-Abuse.html" target="_blank">http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1923/Drug-Alcohol-Abuse.html</a>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><h3 style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">“Findings: <br>Active members of fraternities and sororities had higher levels of heavy episodic drinking, annual marijuana use and current cigarette smoking than non-members at all three waves. Although members of fraternities reported higher levels than non-members of annual illicit drug use other than marijuana, no such differences existed between sorority members and non-members. Heavy episodic drinking and annual marijuana use increased significantly with age among members of fraternities or sororities relative to non-members, but there were no such differential changes for current cigarette use or annual illicit drug use other than marijuana.<br>Conclusions: <br>The present study provides strong evidence that higher rates of substance use among US college students who join fraternities and sororities predate their college attendance, and that membership in a fraternity or sorority is associated with considerably greater than average increases in heavy episodic drinking and annual marijuana use during college. These findings have important implications for prevention and intervention efforts aimed toward college students, especially members of fraternities and sororities.”</span><o:p></o:p></h3><h3 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15784066" target="_blank"><span style="color:#4F81BD">Selection and socialization effects of fraternities and sororities on US college student substance use: a multi-cohort national longitudinal study.</span></a> <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=McCabe%20SE%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=15784066" target="_blank"><span style="color:#4F81BD">McCabe SE</span></a>, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Schulenberg%20JE%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=15784066" target="_blank"><span style="color:#4F81BD">Schulenberg JE</span></a>, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Johnston%20LD%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=15784066" target="_blank"><span style="color:#4F81BD">Johnston LD</span></a>, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=O%27Malley%20PM%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=15784066" target="_blank"><span style="color:#4F81BD">O'Malley PM</span></a>, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Bachman%20JG%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=15784066" target="_blank"><span style="color:#4F81BD">Bachman JG</span></a>, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Kloska%20DD%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=15784066" target="_blank"><span style="color:#4F81BD">Kloska DD</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></h3><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The following abstract – the entire article is well worth reading - emphasizes the same finding. The bibliography appears to be extensive and valuable.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">“Arguably, the Greek, or fraternity-sorority, system is the best environment on campus in which to examine the role of social influence processes on alcohol use and problems. Members of Greek organizations consistently demonstrate higher levels of alcohol use and problems than nonmembers (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726649/#R37" target="_blank">Lo & Globetti, 1995</a>; <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726649/#R55" target="_blank">Sher, Bartholow, & Nanda, 2001</a>). Specifically, fraternity and sorority members and leaders exhibit high levels of use and approval of use (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726649/#R18" target="_blank">Cashin, Presley, & Meilman, 1998</a>). In fact, particular houses often have reputations based on their members’ alcohol consumption (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726649/#R35" target="_blank">Larimer, Irvine, Kilmer, & Marlatt, 1997</a>). In a review of 2 decades of research on fraternity drinking, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726649/#R13" target="_blank">Borsari and Carey (1999)</a> identified five factors contributing to the heavy drinking consistently observed in fraternities: (a) a continuity of heavy alcohol use from high school to college; (b) self-selection into heavy drinking environments; (c) the central role that alcohol plays in fraternity socialization; (d) misperceptions of drinking norms; and (e) the enabling environment of the fraternity house. Thus, an individual’s decision to join the Greek system and the subsequent socialization that may occur in this environment provide an ideal context in which to study the influences of selection, socialization, and active and passive social influences on college student drinking.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">“In a review of 2 decades of research on fraternity drinking, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726649/#R13" target="_blank">Borsari and Carey (1999)</a> identified five factors contributing to the heavy drinking consistently observed in fraternities: (a) a continuity of heavy alcohol use from high school to college; (b) self-selection into heavy drinking environments; (c) the central role that alcohol plays in fraternity socialization; (d) misperceptions of drinking norms; and (e) the enabling environment of the fraternity house. Thus, an individual’s decision to join the Greek system and the subsequent socialization that may occur in this environment provide an ideal context in which to study the influences of selection, socialization, and active and passive social influences on college student drinking.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">And finally:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b> </b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726649/#R37" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:normal">Fraternity and Sorority Involvement, Social Influences, and Alcohol Use Among College Students</span></a></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">A Prospective Examination. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Capone%20C%5Bauth%5D" target="_blank">Christy Capone</a>, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Wood%20MD%5Bauth%5D" target="_blank">Mark D. Wood</a>, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Borsari%20B%5Bauth%5D" target="_blank">Brian Borsari</a>, and <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Laird%20RD%5Bauth%5D" target="_blank">Robert D. Laird</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">Psychol Addict Behav. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2009 August 13.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">Published in final edited form as:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=17874882" target="_blank">Psychol Addict Behav. 2007 September; 21(3): 316–327. </a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b>“</b>Abstract:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">This study used latent growth curve modeling to investigate whether the effects of gender and Greek involvement on alcohol use and problems over the first 2 years of college are best characterized by selection, socialization, or reciprocal influence processes. Three social influences (alcohol offers, social modeling, and perceived norms) were examined as potential mediators of these effects. Undergraduate participants (N = 388) completed self-report measures prior to enrollment and in the spring of their freshmen and sophomore years. Male gender and involvement in the Greek system were associated with greater alcohol use and problems prior to college. Both gender and Greek involvement significantly predicted increases in alcohol use and problems over the first 2 years of college. Cross-domain analyses provided strong support for a mediational role of each of the social influence constructs on alcohol use and problems prior to matriculation, and prematriculation social modeling and alcohol offers mediated relations between Greek involvement and changes in alcohol use over time. Findings suggest that students, particularly men, who affiliate with Greek organizations constitute an at-risk group prior to entering college, suggesting the need for selected interventions with this population, which should take place before or during the pledging process. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)” <br><br>Three members of the SAE house were cited for providing alcohol to minors following the investigation into the death of Joseph Weiderrick. They are: Dakota (Jake) Vegwert, Michael Bright, and Luke J. Torretta . Luke has a history of this kind of <a href="https://www.idcourts.us/repository/caseHistory.do?roaDetail=yes&schema=LATAH&partySequence=91839&county=Latah&displayName=Torretta%2C+Luke+J" target="_blank">alleged behavior</a>. He was cited in March 2010 in a similar alcohol related offense. After months of haggling and delays the prosecutor dropped the charge. It was a misdemeanor offense and I suppose Bill Thompson (or his representative) felt he had wasted enough time on it. Do you appreciate the <b>irony</b> of the SAE webpage that shows Luke Torretta as a house office and the Risk Manager?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">Have these miscreants, aside from the pledge Dakota Vegwert, been asked to leave the SAE house? Why in the world would you trust the current house officers to take control of the situation when they are so deficient in leadership, they are part of the problem? Do your support current SAE efforts to actively recruit new members? I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw that the SAE house was <a href="http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/student_orgs/sae/" target="_blank">rushing incoming students</a> just last month. These addled brain little jackasses chose the fraternity life so that they could party what few brains they have right out of their pointy little skulls. And, the truth is that you can’t stop them, certainly Bruce Pitman (who, incidentally has failed to do so for thirty plus years), can’t and neither can the Idaho Board of Education. As it stands now, I am certain that they laugh at the bunch of you, and why shouldn’t they? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">It is my very strong sense that a single action could stop the whole mess. Let’s call it the <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/11/cal-state-chico-greek-alcohol-death.html" target="_blank">Chico State</a> solution. It would take courage and character. President Nellis, could make a decision to leave a meaningful and lifesaving legacy on this campus if he would suspend all fraternity and sorority recognition at the University of Idaho until each house individually presents to the incoming president and members of the State Board of Education a plan that calls for closely monitored supervision of each house, including unannounced inspections for alcohol and other drugs and a requirement for two live-in male adults (or house mothers in the case of sororities) to serve as round the clock monitors. The supervisors (aka wardens) can not be former fraternity members. Naturally, individual houses must pay the costs associated with the supervision. You know, as does every sentient adult, the cheesy sentimentality of “brotherhood” would fall quickly by the wayside if actual elements of maturity and honor were involved and expected from the membership. At this juncture and historically, what they have proven over and over again is this: they are incapable of self-regulation. One of the more disgusting elements I found when reading the police investigatory statements was the justification from an SAE member for purchasing alcohol underage members because he “was just trying to help them out like his brothers did for him when he was underage.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">Until the University of Idaho becomes serious, and by that I mean <b><u>punitively</u></b> serious, about alcohol and other criminal activities in Greek houses, citizens of the state of Idaho will be plagued by the consequences of your seemingly unending tolerance. At what point does injury, death, and the concurrent liability to the State of Idaho begin to rattle your conscience and bring about change? How long will you, senior administrators on campus, and your aging, saggy-bellied, frat rat allies across the nation continue to uncritically celebrate and endorse the fraternity way of life on the University of Idaho campus? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">Rosemary Huskey<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto">PS I have a suggestion for you, one you might want to share with UI attorney, Guilherme Costa. It is always a mistake to use an individual’s first name if you have not been invited to do so. 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