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Originally posted by Shamp311
What about the movie "Frat House"
Anyone besides myself seen/own a copy of it?
It was once supposed to be an hour long special with the two directors (one directed Old School afterwards) current NYU students going from college to college trying to get on the inside of Greek Life and the "pledging" process. The movie won a Sundance Film Festival Award for documentary (until it came to light that what it is in may not actually be all true).
Eventually they stumble upon Alpha Tau Omega at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania.
(Some facts here may be wrong but this is what I have found researching the topic via the internet and talking with a member of a another fraternity at the school while the movie was shot.)
The two producers paid ATO $1500.00 to shoot the movie in their house where they would pledge them and other Brothers would participate in the pledging process for them to make their documentary. The Brothers who participated received $50.00 each for their work. Everything seen in this movie is according to my source at the school completely TRUE. Which is unbelievable!
If you haven't seen the movie, good luck finding it, but it is worth checking out if you ever get the chance. It really would shed negative light on the Greek system across the nation if this ever aired on National TV. Since the movie ATO at the school has lost their charter and are no longer a Fraternity on that campus.
-Pat-
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Someone uploaded it on youtube.com and broke it down into seven parts, that's where I saw it. Yeah, I don't think all of it is true, either.
What I did find interesting was that they say in the movie that the ATO chapter agreed to let them film only if they didn't say the school's name or the fraternity's name. As I was watching it, though, it was completely obvious to me that it was ATO, there's a ton of stuff around the house that gives it away and you even catch a few glimpses of guys in ATO shirts.