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Originally Posted by pbear19
Yes. Columbia is in the middle of Missouri, about halfway between St. Louis and Kansas City. Fraternity formals are in places like Memphis, Chicago, Lake of the Ozarks. They are weekend-long events. A fraternity member will invite a date, drive her in his car several hours away to the venue, rent a hotel room to share with her overnight, and then bring her back.
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There's a section of Tom Wolfe's book
I am Charlotte Simmons, in which Charlotte describes her fictional experiences at an out-of-town fraternity formal. It's not pretty.