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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sunday Morning, Brandon Straub soberly surveyed the bodies draped across the sofas in his fraternity house at Indiana University. Two girls cuddled and exchanged a languid kiss. One's breast popped out of her low-cut top. "Aaaawesome," drawled one of Straub's frat brothers. Straub could only muster an awkward half-smile. "I'd be lying if I didn't say that seeing some of these scenes makes me sad," he said. "How will they feel when they wake up in the morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faith and Frat Boys | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...them wouldn't be up in the morning. By the time the revelers rose, after noon, Straub, 21, who is not only a loyal fraternity member but also a leader in the Greek InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, had already gone to church and come back. As some of his frat brothers nursed hangovers and others cleaned up from the night before, Straub pondered his situation. He walks a fine line of faith at Indiana, which is currently ranked by the Princeton Review as America's No. 15 party school (and No. 5 in the category "lots of beer"). The challenge, Straub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faith and Frat Boys | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...Bible gives few details on how to navigate the collegiate world in 2005, leaving Christians to grapple with tough questions as they try to integrate their beliefs--and themselves--into college life: Can they be, like Straub, both a brother in Christ and a brother in a frat? Or should they live only with other believers? How do they deal with stereotypes of Christianity that others may hold? And what does it mean to live out their faith on a secular campus like Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faith and Frat Boys | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...sophomore year, he went for a walk, talking along the way to a God he wasn't sure was listening. "I said, God, are you even on this campus?" Hoke recalls. As he wandered down Greek Row, he heard music. "I thought it was a band in some frat," he says, but it was actually CSF's worship team. He saw the CHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP sign outside the house and went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faith and Frat Boys | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...scrutiny (“Not the Only Way,” Magazine, Apr. 7) on the Harvard Radcliffe Science Fiction Association (HRSFA) and other groups on campus shows that there are plenty of students with active social lives, even if their schedules don’t include frat parties...

Author: By Rebecca L. Starr, | Title: Unique Clubs, Not Copious Alcohol, Make The Social Scene | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

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