Sorority members are tired of attending only frat parties, due to this they are pushing to get permission to host alcoholic party on their college campus. Why? They argue that this would give them control over both the alcohol and the sexual dynamics that happen at frat parties. Many women say that they would feel safer going to a sorority party. But why did not sorority parties happen before? Well, sororities pay lower insurance rates and in exchange cannot serve alcohol. It they did serve it, membership payment would increase per year. But many women think it might be worth it. Studies show that sexual assaults occur most frequently in fraternity parties. A professor at Stony Brook University suggested that rape rates would decrease if women were in charge of alcohol. Today girls have to dress, drink, and dance the way frat boys want in order to attend the parties. However this could also bring up sexist ideas towards women. But after all it is not their duty to try to decrease the rape rate, all they want to do is party.
In this article by Olga Khazan to The Atlantic she tackles the rising idea that sororities want to through alcohol fueled parties instead of attending fraternity parties. She goes into the pros and then the cons of this idea, citing quotes of sources for both views. But in the end she concludes that women should not be trying to prevent their own assaults, that is not their responsibility.
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/01/the-pros-and-cons-of-sorority-parties/384670/
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