Freshmen are generally 18. The legal age for drinking is 21 in the US; is it the same in Canada? It's against the law here to serve alcohol to minors, so fraternities do get into trouble for those sorts of things. I'm not sure how strict the law is in Canada.
A freshman died from alcohol poisoning here a few years ago (1999, I think?) and his family sued the school, so it's in the school's best interest to prevent things like that as much as possible (in addition to not wanting all their students to get alcohol poisoning <g>). After that incident, they decided not to allow freshmen to live in fraternities at all.
Kaylle
