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...annual Winter Carnival--the faculty unanimously voted in favor of the college's goal to make fraternities and sororities substantially coed, along with developing new social alternatives for its 4,300 undergraduates. Such news might not seem like a big deal at many colleges, but at Dartmouth, whose raucous frat life inspired the movie Animal House, it's the biggest drama since the 230-year-old school, tucked in an idyllic New Hampshire valley, went coed in 1972. Could there really be life beyond fraternities...
...music mogul should love this picture: frat boys and their dates at the University of North Dakota dancing on a beer-slick living-room floor to music blaring over a p.a. system. They are, after all, the music business's target demographic--18-to-24- year-olds in touch with the trends, loving the latest tunes. Yet this archetypal collegiate partyscape has turned into a music-biz nightmare. That's because no one is paying for the music...
...Animal House, the frat boys take revenge on a dean by ramming him with their "Deathmobile." A suspiciously similar jalopy turned up on campus last week after DARTMOUTH COLLEGE president James Wright announced his intention to tame the fraternities that inspired the film...
...runs down from Hanover, NH to Boston, MA, we have our own Dean Wormer in the form of Governor A. Paul Cellucci, who seems to think the teachers of Massachusetts are no better than the Delta frat boys. He has been holding teachers and teacher candidates on double-secret probation since the institution of a competency exam last spring, blasting away on his ceremonial, Silber-plated whistle...
...Cellucci has borrowed a line directly from Wormer's lips: "The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me." He views our state's teachers (and those training to become teachers) as little more than frat boys to be disciplined until their organization can be disbanded (I bet the Massachusetts Teacher Association has the same reputation in the governor's office that Delta did at fictional Faber College). Of course, in the movie it is Dean Wormer who says, "I'll decide what's fair and what's not fair...