"What is college about?" is a question that many people ask when the time comes to
             consider what one wants to do with the next four years of their life. One popular answer might
             be, "One giant party!!". This notion is notable almost instantaneously once someone has
             entered the college atmosphere. One could also note how easy it is to obtain the most popular
             party favor, alcohol. And one could also point out where most of the alcohol is coming from,
             fraternities. Fraternities are notorious for their drinking and partying and it's no surprise that
             many of the people partying with them are minors who are illegally drinking at almost all of the
             functions. This is a incredibly severe problem that needs fixing. Entering freshman who need to
             focus on schoolwork are being constantly pressured to drink at parties where alcohol is readily
             available. "College students who reported D and F [GPA's] averaged 9 drinks per
             week..."(www.madd.org). The availability of alcohol to minors needs to be reduced
             dramatically in order to help prevent many alcohol related accidents, allow new students to
             focus on their schoolwork, and to stay in accordance with the law. Fraternities need to reduce
             the availability of alcohol to minors so that they may present a positive, responsible image of
             themselves and the University of Texas.
             Being a student myself I have noticed how readily available the alcohol actually is.
             There is no identification check of any significance at any of the fraternity functions. Once inside
             there is no limit to who can consume alcohol nor is there any type of regulation on how much
             one can drink. For instance, at parties located at the fraternity houses, the most that they ever
             do to isolate minors from the legal ones is by merely asking age and then, if the person is
             underage they receive two black X's on their hands. The same goes for p...