Jesus, this article gets better and better the further you get through it.
> Gentle reader, if you happen to have a son currently in
> a college fraternity, I would ask that you take several
> carbon dioxide–rich deep breaths from a paper bag before
> reading the next paragraph. I’ll assume you are sitting
> down. Ready?
> “I’ve recovered millions and millions of dollars from
> homeowners’ policies,” a top fraternal plaintiff’s
> attorney told me.Friends don't let friends climb up things while intoxicated. We watched a guy come inches away from utter annihilation at a warehouse party once. Right in front of our faces, if we hadn't been there he would have fallen several more storeys on top of the three he did. Had to get airlifed out by helicopter.
Now I'm the party pooper every time. I've almost gotten into fights trying to stop people from climbing trees. It's always worth it.
I remember the high-schoolers I knew that entered Greek systems. This is unsurprising.
Related: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-rape-on-campu...
Warning: this is quite a shocking read about what was going on in frat houses at UVA, and the administrations utter failure to handle it.
As a former employee of a fraternity I read this whole thing, and am confused about its point. I guess the author was trying for "Fraternities are bad because bad things happen to people that visit them" but all of the cited cases have nothing to do with the fraternity and have everything to do with a bunch of 18-year-olds being drunk and in a house together. Am I missing something?
A snippet from the article: "An 1857 letter that a Sigma Phi member named Jenkins Holland sent to one of his fraternity brothers suggests the new system was already hitting full stride: 'I did get one of the nicest pieces of ass some day or two ago.'"