SMU’s “party school” reputation may soon diminish if the Interfraternity Council’s executive board decides to ban freshmen boys from attending registered events for the first six weeks of school.

After experimenting with the idea this semester, IFC decided that they wanted to continue the policy into future semesters.

“The six week period was very successful,” Brian Rose, IFC president, said.

Although the process went well this year, there are still some improvements IFC wishes to make.

“I have some tweaks that we noticed that could make it better,” Rose said.

All changes must be approved by the executive board, however.

According to Rose, recruitment numbers have been low for the past few years, partly due to the number of alcohol violations (AV) freshmen boys received after attending parties.

Freshmen boys cannot go through recruitment if they obtain more than two AVs in their first semester of college.

IFC hoped that this new policy would help ease freshmen men into the college environment while “decreasing bad habits.”

Though it is difficult to say if there were any correlations between the instillation of the policy and the decrease in AV’s, it appears thus far that recruitment numbers are higher this year than in previous years.

At the first recruitment meeting of the semester, Rose said nearly 370 men signed up. This is up more than 70 men from last year.

“I think students are starting to realize the value of being in a fraternity and that fraternity men are multi-dimensional,” Rose said. “We hope for a good turn out come rush week.”