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JUST LIKE A FRAT...
...reinforce the fun, frat-like image comes a not-so-fun fact. According to the Registrar’s Office, only 17 women have taken the class since 1990. Though past rosters have included female students, Math 55 is a fraternity. Students rush. Eleven become pledges, and they are initiated with problem sets...
...wake of the movie “Borat,” two cases are being brought against four companies involved in its making for causing humiliation and distress to its alleged victims. One lawsuit is from a group of frat boys who drunkenly embarrassed themselves by spewing up sexist rubbish before international audiences. They blame being drunk—caused, they say, exclusively by the production team buying them rounds—and seem to think that signing contracts and behaving stupidly in public while inebriated entitles them to monetary compensation...
Both of these alleged incidents involve a production team skillfully executing a strategy to manipulate individuals into supposedly unlikely actions. Liquoring up some frat boys to distort their judgment before offering a contract is certainly unscrupulous. But in the end, these boys were offered a choice, albeit a drunken one, and hanged themselves by their own words. In the case of Glod, the villagers were not given a choice, which not only makes the filmmakers legally liable, but goes against the entire movie’s premise...
Stranger Than FictionDirected by Marc ForsterColumbia Pictures & Mandate Pictures3 starsSorry, frat-boys. “Stranger Than Fiction” isn’t the sequel to “Anchorman” that you’ve all been waiting for. Though its trailer frames it as a typical Will Ferrell comedy, he spends an astonishingly small amount of his screen-time screaming wildly. Directed by Marc Forster (“Finding Neverland”), “Stranger Than Fiction” centers on Harold Crick (Ferrell), an obsessive-compulsive workaholic who suddenly discovers that his life...