Word: frats
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that real life provided so many classic frat-boy-comedy moments? "By the end of the week I felt my teeth eroding from the margarita mix," says Roxanne, a sophomore at Texas Tech and one of the twins. "There was never a sober moment. We woke up with margaritas." Alcohol, logic dictates, has the same effect on films as bad writing: it turns young people into cliches. Not only do the 16 people sharing the phat Mexican hotel suite make out indiscriminately, curse and say stupid things, but they also indirectly deliver the requisite moral lesson of a teen comedy...
...anomaly of seeing frat brothers earnestly handing out buttons with the words “Another Man Against Sexual Violence” highlighted the larger community’s absorption of the rape issue...
...nexus of frat-party boozing and gentleman’s club cigar-smoking lie the finals clubs, a perennial challenge for feminists...
While being surrounded by the football players and rowers of SAE might ordinarily give rise to decidedly unmaternal feelings in most girls, Garbarino insists the only “instinct” she has towards her frat “sons” is a protective one. “You see them with girls and you want the girls to be nice to them,” she says...
Back at Harvard, the frat girls remain dedicated. That is, at least until graduation, retirement or incarceration, when the SAE mom must recruit her successor. Her contract with the fraternity specifically stipulates that if she has a run-in with the law, she is not released from this responsibility. Says Garbarino, “If I’m in jail, I guess I’ll be using my one phone call...