Word: frats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the concept of a salon may be traditional, this particular one can only be described as "late century cyberpunk frat." Over by the patio is a slate-gray pool table perched on construction girders, and out on the lawn is a sensory-deprivation chamber. The garage is less a garage than a World Wide Web command post. Hiding among the overstuffed sofas and comic- book art in the living room are a video-game power glove, the latest issue of Rolling Stone and a Yoda mask. The dining room is dominated by a psychedelic poster from...
...racism. He went to elementary school in midtown Manhattan, to high school in suburban White Plains and to college at Middlebury in Vermont, where he was the only black in his class--and, more tellingly, the first one in the local chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. His frat brothers liked him so much that they defied the whites-only charter to pledge him. As a newly commissioned Army second lieutenant en route to a post in Virginia, he was so naive about what it could mean to be black in America that when a waitress at a segregated...
...main creative forces behind Mad TV, Fax Bahr and Adam Small, were writers on the sketch show In Living Color. Perhaps because Mad is free of the white Ivy League frat-boy image that has burdened the world of late-night network comedy--just last week John Pike, a late-night programming executive at cbs resigned over accusations that he had made racial slurs in a meeting with members of the comedy group the State--Mad TV has taken bigger risks tackling controversial racial issues. In a sketch that took a sharp knife to the culture of victimhood, Bryan Callen...
Also fascinating is Morrisroe's account of Mapplethorpe's early incarnation as a macho frat boy, with his membership in the Perishing Rifles, Pratt's elite military organization, the description of whose hazing practices brings to mind nothing so much as the gay sadomasochistic rituals that came to fascinate the artist later in life. "In this case the "masters"...bound the pledges penises with one end of a rope, then attached bricks to the other end and ordered them to hurl the brick across the room...
Forget "Animal House." Residential life for Harvard first-years does not involve frat houses caked with years of party residue...