Word: fratting
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...crowd shoehorned into Manhattan's Basin Street East last week was itching for action. "Ole!" they shouted. "Ole! Ole!" Thus encouraged, the Tijuana Brass let loose with its patented version of The Lonely Bull. It was ole all the way. Grinning and joking like a bunch of frat brothers at a stag party, Trumpeter Herb Alpert and his side-burned sidemen served up a dozen tamale-flavored numbers that had the audience rocking in their seats. It is the middle-aged man's answer to rock 'n' roll, and it is called Ameriachi...
...comb it back into long waves that lap against their collars. Surfers achieve a wind-blown effect by constant washing-sometimes every day. They either let their locks dangle just above their eyebrows, a la Prince Valiant, or sweep them back over one side of the forehead into the "frat" look. Because the resulting bang usually slips down to cover one eye, many fraters develop a tic from jerking their heads back to clear their vision...
...pushing that Big Beat, the big beasts claim several dozen victims. "Sounds like some body big walkin' in the mud," says one terrified chick. Some 20 others come to grief at a slumber party when they leave the front door ajar, expecting the boys from the nearby frat house to stage a raid. Horror's best song: You Are Not a Summer Love...
Surprisingly, the student who has weathered the initial impact, and some have, finds that he is at once being exposed to several realities: the frat-rats, the dormies, the pseudos, the adicts the real things. It's football on Saturday afternoon and "pot" that night. It's all there to be tasted by the 17,000 undergraduates, and if all 17,000 these are not living in ivory towers, that may be because Harvard take 4,500 off the top and there just aren't enough in the world to go around. Michael Gettelman, 1L University of California...
Fraternities, which include about 20 per cent of the men, place even more pressure on their members. They offer a pleasant way of meeting one small group of friends, but within the group, the influence on the individual is strong. The "frat-rats" seldom associate with students outside their own house. According to Peter van Houton, Assistant Dean of Students, very few of the fraternity members attend the ASUC sponsored dances at the Union; each house has its own party on the week...