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My son is currently in a fraternity at another university (he did not apply to Stanford, heaven forfend) where the controls over fraternity parties seem stronger than they were at Stanford at the time of the Brock Turner assault. When his fraternity holds a "registered" party (one that is open to all students), the university mandates that they have designated non-drinking party monitors (called the "sober party patrol"), whose job is to control admission to the party (no already intoxicated students may enter) and register any non-university students who want to come in and record who they are a guest of, ensure that no women are taken into non-public areas of the fraternity, that inappropriate behavior is not occurring at the party, and that no one has smuggled hard alcohol into the party. In addition, at his fraternity any intoxicated men or women are personally escorted back to their dorm room when they are ready to leave, if they are not in the company of a non-intoxicated known friend. The fraternity understands that any incident that occurs will result in the dissolution of the fraternity at that campus and thus has a strong incentive to ensure that nothing untoward happens. It would seem that Stanford and other universities could require the same level of attentiveness and protection.

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My son is currently in a fraternity at another university (he did not apply to Stanford, heaven forfend) where the controls over fraternity parties seem stronger than they were at Stanford at the time of the Brock Turner assault. When his fraternity holds a "registered" party (one that is open to all students), the university mandates that they have designated non-drinking party monitors (called the "sober party patrol"), whose job is to control admission to the party (no already intoxicated students may enter) and register any non-university students who want to come in and record who they are a guest of, ensure that no women are taken into non-public areas of the fraternity, that inappropriate behavior is not occurring at the party, and that no one has smuggled hard alcohol into the party. In addition, at his fraternity any intoxicated men or women are personally escorted back to their dorm room when they are ready to leave, if they are not in the company of a non-intoxicated known friend. The fraternity understands that any incident that occurs will result in the dissolution of the fraternity at that campus and thus has a strong incentive to ensure that nothing untoward happens. It would seem that Stanford and other universities could require the same level of attentiveness and protection.