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...undergraduate at U.S.C., Ferrell once delivered a deadpan speech to his fraternity brothers urging them to "go gay" to reduce the risk of being accused of date rape and bring them closer together. When he lived in New York City, Ferrell would find the most ordinary painting in a museum and bawl in front of it. While at SNL, he even cultivated an unusual fondness for bombing. "If a sketch bombs, a lot of times you'll see a performer just hit the beats and get out," says McKay, a former head writer on the show. "Will would drag...
...about it,” Poulos said. “He was visiting and everything seemed fine, and then five days later we get a call and learn that he is in jail.” Purdy was also scheduled for a pretrial hearing yesterday in connection with a rape charge still pending against him. According to Silverman, the two women involved in Purdy’s prostitution ring had not been prosecuted. One of them was taken into custody and given a pretrial probation. The other woman was not arrested. —Yelena S. Mironova
...It’s not because I am hoping to catch a clubby guy, or because I have a date rape fantasy. I don’t go because I’m a classist, or because I’m particularly preppy—I may be both of those things, but that is not why I pay frequent visits to many a Mount Auburn St. mansion. I go because, on a Saturday night, there is more appeal in spending time in spacious lounges with people I’m likely to know than in an unfamiliar sweaty dorm...
...There are many other flimsy objections to final clubs but most are hardly worth mentioning. The recent Disorientation Guide seems to take great pleasure in tossing around the suggestion that date rape pervades final clubs, yet they are unable to support that claim. Final clubs may not have official ties to the College anymore, but they are still subject to government regulations–they’re social clubs, not brothels...
Others point out the seeming incongruity of this position. “Sexual violence is construed as a women’s issue when 99.9 percent of rapists are men—it would seem to me that rape is a man’s issue,” says former Strong Women, Strong Girls Director Tracy E. Nowski ’07. “When you talk about gendered things on campus, women tend to show up. It’s hugely misleading, because obviously ‘gender’ involves both men and women...