Word: frat
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Your report "Faith and Frat Boys" told of college students who are pursuing a relationship with God [May 9]. You successfully described the courage and faith necessary for Christian students to live their beliefs in a secular college culture that is sometimes hostile to them. As a college minister, I appreciated TIME's accurate portrayal of today's college students, the vast majority of whom are giving serious thought to where they are on their spiritual journey...
...shoes aren't shiny, nobody's wearing a hat with a plume. Instead, they're in flip-flops, board shorts or jeans, baseball hats or visors, bead necklaces purchased on spring break. But still they give themselves away at every turn. They're like undercover cops infiltrating a frat party. Their shoulders are a bit too square. They don't slouch. They plow efficiently through dishes of peanuts, eyes darting about the room, scanning for friends as they would targets on the practice range...
...This being satellite radio, whose subscribers pay a $12.95 monthly fee, the content cops have no say in what's beamed down from Sirius' three satellites. And Sirius is taking full advantage of its outlier status to serve up fare you would never hear over the AM/FM dial, from frat-boy channels like Maxim Radio to hip-hop so crude it might make Eminem blush...
That was what attracted Greek InterVarsity's Straub to frat life. He pledged after an older InterVarsity member told him it would be "an incredible ministry opportunity," he says. "Try to think of another time when you'll live with 100 other guys, most of whom don't want to be bothered with God right now." But influence can flow both ways. Early in his freshman year, Straub found himself waking up after a couple of drunken nights, suffering a spiritual hangover of guilt. Now he leads a weekly Bible study in his secular frat. It's a daunting challenge...
...door in his house, Sigma Nu, inviting his brothers to Bible study, as he has done every week for the past two years. Just two of the 70 brothers accepted the offer, but that doesn't mean the rest haven't been affected by Howell. "In the biggest meathead frat, he's himself. He's 100%. And no matter what day I say no, he'll always come back," says junior Trevor Loe, who declined to attend that week's session. "One day, when I'm ready, I'll remember Peter...