A Team Approach

Since February the student-run Green Team has been circulating in frat basements and sorority halls as part of a peer-to-peer effort to reduce alcohol abuse. Trained members earn $40 for a four-hour shift that involves duties ranging from distributing wristbands and checking IDs at social events to conducting house walkthroughs and doing whatever they can to prevent sexual assault and alcohol abuse. Members, who are not identified but stay sober during parties, attempt to intervene before a situation escalates into a police matter. Members are ready to provide food, water or any assistance to help students avoid danger. For example, at a recent Epsilon Kappa Theta concert a student, apparently intoxicated, was found lying on the sorority's stairs and was helped by team members to find a friend to take him home. "The goal is first and foremost to ensure that students enjoy themselves but are safe," says Cyrus Akrami '11, who helped start the organization. Green Team is currently in a trial run with funding from the president s office.

Fly-fishing lessons lure students to the Grant.