Baker University’s Zeta Chi fraternity plans to implement a dry policy in the fall, hoping it will attract new members.
“We just want to see if going dry will actually help us, and if it does, we might keep it, but if it doesn’t help us or we don’t see any significant change, then we’ll probably go back to being a wet fraternity,” president Nicholas Wasser said.
Wasser said fraternity members discussed the idea with the fraternity alumni board and among themselves before they came to the decision to only allow alcohol at parties not being held on fraternity property.
“It gives us even more opportunities to be together when we’re not under the influence of alcohol and to be able to band together and better promote the brotherhood that we have,” fraternity member Brandon Weckbaugh said.
Sophomore Brandon Jacobs, treasurer of the fraternity, said it might improve members’ study habits.
“We believe that being a dry house will help with scholarship if we remove the temptation of alcohol in the house,” he said.