Roy Baker has a plan -- a pretty big plan, and an unrealistic one, if you ask us.

He wants to up the numbers of people in greek life and make recruitment more about organization and less about drinking.

OK, so far, so good.

But the methods by which Baker and the Interfraternity Council (IFC) are going about this are impractical and idealistic, not to mention a blow to the night life of practically every freshman here for the summer.

Baker e-mailed the summer session freshmen last week to let them know about a new IFC policy that forbids them from visiting fraternities for social purposes during summer session.

Predictably, many freshmen disregarded the e-mail and the new policy.

"I think it was kind of stupid," Marissa Lake (freshman-division of undergraduate studies) said Monday. "I don't think anyone will take it seriously."

We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

This is a university -- not a daycare facility. While Baker should be commended for looking out for our little baby freshies, many of them are legal adults. Let them make their own mistakes.

If Baker is so paranoid about freshmen attending parties, that lends itself to what no fraternity man wants to hear -- there's not much to do at fraternities other than drink, eat food while drinking, dance while drinking and sweat while drinking.

To us, at least, this negates Baker's point that these are "fraternity men" and not "frat boys." By taking this approach, he's acknowledging fraternities do, in fact, serve to minors, especially in the summer when the majority of students here are underage and naïve.

So what's the point of all this? Well, in Baker's mind, keeping people out of fraternities for two months will somehow make people even more eager to join them in the fall. Sound a little ridiculous and under-researched? We agree.

This may, in effect, stifle some interest in the system.

How can students know which fraternities they're interested in if they're only allowed scheduled visits to them? If people are really that interested in joining a fraternity, why are you telling them to stay away?

Ideally, Baker hopes to eventually have 30 percent of the campus involved in greek life.

Thirty percent -- that will essentially diminish the tight-knit community greek life prides itself on.

Instead, it just about doubles the number of students.

Why not work on the 12 percent of the campus that is already involved in greek life and shape up the notorious "frat boy" stereotype you preach about.

Greek life should be about quality -- not quantity.