The Slow Return of Fun at Stanford

Last fall, Stanford’s most cherished social traditions were targeted and taken down by university administration. EuroTrash, the infamous first party of the year hosted by Kappa Sigma, was cancelled, as was Sigma Phi Epsilon’s annual White Lies party. Others were pushed to later quarters. The result was one party on a given night with a crowd the size of five parties packed into it.

When all the parties were cancelled and nearly every fraternity was placed on probation, freshmen resorted to drinking unsupervised in their dormitories. Bluntly put, social life at Stanford was dying.

This fall – at least so far – is different. For the first two weeks of the year, every one of those “traditional” parties was allowed to run with impressive support from Stanford administration.