Bluto is going to have to find a new place to live.
Pi Kappa Alpha, a fraternity at the University of Arizona that was booted off campus in 2003 for bad behavior, is back with a new image. And it doesn't include anyone who resembles the drunken, partying character from the movie "Animal House."
"You generally don't see the old Pike in any of us," said James Allen, a sophomore political science student and the group's spokesman.
The Pikes, as they call themselves, focus on being scholars, leaders, athletes and gentlemen.
Perhaps the biggest difference is self-regulation.
"If anything happened with a brother, we'd be all over him before anyone else could," Allen said.
Eight other Greek groups have recently been in trouble for alcohol violations.
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Four fraternities lost recognition in the past year for infractions related to alcohol. They are Kappa Alpha, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Sigma Pi.
Two more groups are under investigation now by the dean of students: Beta Theta Pi fraternity and Delta Gamma sorority.
Additionally, two sororities received sanctions from the UA or from their national headquarters for parties with alcohol this semester: Pi Beta Phi and Delta Delta Delta.
To change its reputation, Pi Kappa Alpha started from scratch on recruiting. It has 119 members, with 24 living in the Pike house and 63 pledges.
It spent more than $130,000 renovating the house north of campus over the summer and dealt out mandatory chores.
The fraternity requires 30 hours of community service from each member each semester. The men have pledged to raise funds for the next-door Diamond Children's Medical Center, among other causes.
Parties are different, too.
There is no hard alcohol in the Pike house.
"People drink it way too fast; they don't even know how much they're drinking," said Josh Schafer, a junior sociology student and the group's president.
Fraternities and sororities represent about 4,100 students at the UA, including about 20 percent of freshmen women, said Johanne Jensen, director of fraternity and sorority programs for the UA.
None of the school's 22 recognized groups bans alcohol altogether.
The 11 sororities can't have alcohol in their facilities, without exception. Two fraternities choose not to have alcohol in their facilities.
But all of the groups can have parties with alcohol at other venues.
No matter where a group holds a party, it has to tell the UA when and where it's happening and show contracts for security, safe transportation and insurance, Jensen said. Groups must provide security at the door, check IDs and give out wristbands, and provide sober party monitors, she said.
Before any of that, they have to complete alcohol-education classes, she said.
In recent years, no Greek house has received a red tag — the notice police stick on a house when they respond to an unruly party.
The trouble at parties usually comes from pockets of students who don't understand the rules and do something that gets the entire group in trouble, Jensen said.
The Pikes hope to be different and change the Greek image.
"We're not Bluto from 'Animal House,' " Schafer said. "We're men of character, and we're in college for a reason."
