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...mourning (sort of) last weekend after Dartmouth College announced its famed fraternity system would be going coed, I rented "Animal House," the movie inspired by Dartmouth's most rowdy frat, fictionally dubbed Delta Tau Chi. It's a great film--crass, yes, but incredibly brilliant and witty. One of the best scenes involves the bumbling but evil Dean Vernon Wormer calling in the leadership of the less-than-academically inclined Delta House and informing them that because of their poor grades, they have expelled because, unknown to them, they have been on "double-secret probation...
...family caught on top of a rampaging circus elephant? A man urinating in the office coffee pot? Twentysomethings shooting milk out of their tear ducts for distance? The nets can probably squeeze any of that in the slot between DiResta and Malcolm & Eddie. Cable used to be the frat basement of television, full of "Skinemax" and foul-mouthed comics, but now you turn to the double digits for CNN, Bravo or American Movie Classics. The cheap thrills are invading network television, under headings like When Good Pets Go Bad, World's Scariest Police Chases and, thanks to a rare kind...
...rallying cry for the last 10 years I'vebeen involved in this is more club, less frat,"Sears said...
...walked into the SAC office once, and sawthings written on the wall about a woman on SAC inreference to `underoos," says the associate. "Itseemed kind of weird--the place seemed very clubbyand frat-like...
...AEPi has been a frat since its forming 85 years ago," he says. "There are Jewish sororities nationally...