Word: frats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FRAT SCENE is the only scene at Indiana, according to Karen. You can go see a movie or hang out with friends, she says, but most people end up hitting frat row before the night is over. Bloomington is no Boston...
Karen says that Indiana first-years, like their counterparts here, tend to hit frat parties in herds. At the frats, like final clubs here, she and her female friends line up at the door and pretend to know one of the brothers in order to be let in. Then they get to try to push through the throng around the keg to get a beer...
Well, she said, her first night at Indiana, she and Bambi got a ride home after a frat party from one of the brothers. Oh no, I thought. So what happened? The guy spent the whole ride back--get this--telling Karen and Bambi that they should be careful about accepting rides home from frat guys and walking alone on campus at night...
That was both good and bad advice. Good,because it's right. You should listen to whatother students have to say about classes, but onlyinsofar as it's both useful and believable. Justbecause Joe Frat Boy-Wannabe says the only thinghe worries about is getting more beer, doesn'tmean you should follow him or even believe...
Deep down, Joe Frat Boy is just as neurotic andsuccess-driven as the rest of us. He's eitherhiding it, or, as is more often the case, he'srepressing...