Word: frats
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University of Michigan senior Troy M. Wallace describes the Naked Mile thusly in an e-mail: “As far as I know, Naked Mile participants are all frat guys hoping to see attractive, naked women. Also, Naked Mile spectators are all geeks hoping to see attractive, naked women. What happens, of course, is that the geeks see a bunch of naked frat guys. The frat guys only see other naked frat guys, while geeks stare at them in disappointment. Both groups are embarrassed. There seem to be quite a number of people who really want to see attractive...
...Current associate editor and future chair David B. Stevens ’03 was painfully close to a drunken dance-floor hook-up at an MIT frat party last Saturday night. A dangerously intoxicated girl spotted the raffish Stevens and started freaking him. A lusty, drunk Tabitha G. Filney ‘02 pulled her away, and yelled “get away, you thirsty slut—David deserves better.” Stevens later witnessed the same girl grinding her ass into “some total nerd’s crotch. How could she lower her standards...
...culture castigate Hollywood films for excesses in sex and violence, a regular moviegoer has to ask, What sex? American movies wrote the book on colorful carnage, and keep reprinting it. But serious--or even frivolous--pictures with an erotic touch are hard to find. And please don't mention frat-house farces like the recent hit American Pie 2, a kind of I Know Who You Did Last Summer whose real subjects are competition (with other guys) and humiliation (by women). AmPie 2 also has little redeeming priapic interest: on a warm June day, two college kids have sex--under...
...Many have complained over the years that the show has a racial or sexual “quota” for each season. The response to that is obvious, but nonetheless crucial. “We’re not going to cast six straight, white frat boys from Iowa. One of those might work in a certain situtation, but not as a rule. This person has this thing in their background...this person has that...these pairings are how we make a cast,” commented Fahey...
...feel socially excluded, feel free to hate them, just as you would hate the frat that rejected you. Just don’t give them more credit than they deserve by conferring upon them an importance that they don’t possess...