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...create the devil. He just wanted a job. But when Seann William Scott quit his gig stocking shelves at Home Depot to audition for the 10-line part of Steve Stifler in 1999's teen-sex comedy American Pie, he unwittingly invented the icon of the Generation Y frat boy, the Eustace Tilly of the Maxim set. Scott's Stifler, who returns this Friday in the Pie franchise's third installment, American Wedding, is a rich kid dedicated to humiliating those who appear to be his friends. In the first film, he slipped a laxative to a public bathroom--averse...
CAMBRIDGE—My summer place is nestled between an MIT frat, the Asgard pub and a Chinese restaurant called the Pu Pu Hot Pot. The most noticeable feature of the abandoned lot next door is a gigantic graffiti of Richard Nixon’s face, the eyes adorned with skulls and the shoulder marked with the word “OBEY...
Mention Western Union to an American, and chances are he or she will think of telegrams and maybe that '60s frat-rock song of the same name. But in the rest of the world, Western Union means money. Having converted its wire traffic from text messages to cash, Western Union increasingly serves as a rough-and-ready bank for millions of migrant workers who send part of their pay to loved ones back home, whether from an Arizona broccoli field to a Mexican village or from a Saudi oil field to Bombay. As the pace of global migration quickens...
...doubt a few besotted cheers rose from the frat houses. But the ranking dismayed Indiana's administrators. Officially, at least, drinking isn't even allowed on campus, except in a few residences for older students. And the school had been trying harder than ever to enforce the rules since the alcohol-related deaths of a sophomore in 1998 and a freshman three years later. Since January 2001, six fraternities have been thrown off campus for alcohol violations. The number of underage students busted for boozing has more than quadrupled since 1998. The school even launched a controversial policy...
...growing p.r. problem. A couple of months after the ranking was announced, a porn company decided that Indiana's party atmosphere made it the perfect place to shoot Shane's World No. 32: Campus Invasion. (Students were filmed getting busy with porn stars in a dorm and frat house.) A month later, the Girls Gone Wild crew danced into town to shoot video of topless I.U. women. "It's a horrendous set of actions that all started with the Princeton Review," says Brand, now president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association...