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Now, a Brown University student organization is asking that frat brothers take a bartending course, so that they may learn the rules rules of alcohol safety.

Brown Student Agencies is working with Greek Council to encourage fraternity brothers to take bartending certification courses, in the hope of reducing EMS incidents at frat parties. The Student Activities Office and the Rhode Island Bartending School have also helped plan the courses, which have been held in the Underground since last semester and cost $100 per person.

“The SAO and BSA are interested in having any party that any of the Greeks host have a sponsored bartender,” said Connor Shinn ’14, executive director of BSA.

Timothy Shiner, director of Student Activities and the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, said he thinks the bartending classes will create a safer environment on campus and provide job opportunities for students.

One goal of the courses is “to minimize underage drinking and unsafe drinking,” he said. “It includes mixology but also how to recognize if someone has had too much to drink and how to check IDs.”

The SAO has been working with Greek Council over the past year, but individual fraternities will ultimately decide if they want to participate in the program, Shiner said.

“This is a program to increase safety and reduce liability for the University, for houses, for groups,” he said. “It would decrease the likelihood that something will happen, which is our main goal.”

But some students have voiced concern that this initiative is part of a growing trend to regulate on-campus parties.

“There is some concern about increased oversight at their parties, but I’ve done my best to be transparent and talk to them about it,” Shiner said.

“If the goal is to decrease underage alcohol consumption, I doubt it’s going to achieve that goal,” said Kevin Carty ’15, a brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, former Greek Council member and former Herald opinions columnist.