If the Interfraternity Council (IFC) plays the game of either drinking underage or furnishing alcohol to those underage, it runs the risk of losing that game ("IFC responds to editorial about citations," Dec. 5). I'll agree that I think the game is stupid, but if you willingly break the rules, you accept that you can get caught and move on.

Everyone else in this town that throws apartment parties takes the same risk, and they don't have pledges manning the doors and asking people for their age on the way in. The apartment dwellers don't have an overseeing board that tries to negotiate with the police for leniency.

If furnishing is too risky for the IFC, perhaps they could move their chapter parties to the random apartments, which IFC President Steve DiOrio implies must all be swimming in booze without a cop in sight. That would make the issue some non-IFC guy's problem, and DiOrio could rest easy. It would keep any of the IFC members from having to worry about those pesky police on patrol around Frat Row.