Fraternities = Bad
No doubt some virtue comes from college fraternities. The virtue is drowned by the institutions' unwholesomeness, snobbery and misogyny. As a former proud, dues-paying member of a college fraternity, I kinda agree with Caitlin Flanagan on this one, regarding the troubles of the Yale DKE chapter:
The Greek system is dedicated to quelling young men's anxiety about submitting themselves to four years of sissy-pants book learning by providing them with a variety of he-man activities: drinking, drugging, ESPN watching and the sexual mistreatment of women. A 2007 National Institute of Justice study found that about one in five women are victims of sexual assault in college; almost all of those incidents go unreported. It also noted that fraternity men—who tend to drink more heavily and frequently than nonmembers—are more likely to perpetrate sexual assault than nonfraternity men, according to previous studies. Over a quarter of sexual-assault victims who were incapacitated reported that the assailant was a fraternity member.
Williams College made a very wise decision when it abolished frats in the 1960s.







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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Posted by: Jenny Ledd | May 21, 2011 9:08 PM