Revisions to the greek system’s event policy have recently been made, and Interfraternity Council officers said they hope the changes will lessen fraternities’ liabilities when they host events.

However, Shawn Spooner, IFC co-chief of Investigative Affairs, said most of the changes are already regular practice at fraternity events.

“IDs at the door and the sign-in, sign-out sheet to keep track of the number of guests in the party area and prevent overcrowding are new in the policy, but chapters have been practicing them since last semester,” said Spooner, junior in exercise and sport science.

Liz Sandstrom, president of the Panhellenic Council, said many campuses are making changes.

“There is a national initiative to be more accountable for risk-management issues,” said Sandstrom, junior in elementary education.

The changes became official when the two greek-governing councils approved them last month.

Other changes emphasize identification standards and events-policy registration.

Spooner and Andy Klein, IFC co-chiefs of Investigative Affairs, drafted the new policies. Spooner said prior to writing the draft, he and Klein looked for possible loopholes in the old policy.

“By looking at what could have been missed before and what wasn’t in writing, we reduce fraternity liability,” Spooner said.

He said their approach to modifying the document puts them at an advantage. “We have one of the better risk-management programs in events policies,” he said.

Klein, junior in exercise and sport science, said identification was an important part of the new policy.

“We have always checked IDs to determine if students were minors or legal,” Klein said, “but now we want to ensure they are in college.”

He said eventually IFC members would like to require everyone to show a college ID; however, the current changes allow for students 19 years old and older to show a driver’s license or college ID at the door.

Another section change, Klein said, ensures the door monitors are sober. As was before, students of age are given a wrist band at the door, signifying that they are of legal age.

Klein said there is also a new enforcement policy under the revisions dubbed the “one-strike rule.” Houses are required to fill out an event-registration form and submit it by the Tuesday prior to a weekend event. In the past, IFC had problems with incomplete forms, Klein said.

With the new policy, if forms are turned in incomplete, houses will only have one day to finish it.

Spooner said there were limited changes to the event-registration form itself, as it is a relatively new document.

Currently, the document requires information from a house such as whether it is to be an alcoholic event or not, the location, number of guests invited, number of guests expected, type of entertainment and how many entrances there will be to the party.

Spooner said the registration document also requires listing the house social chair, president, bartenders, alcohol-free monitors and door monitor.