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Greeks on our campus are definitely proud that Animal House was filmed here. Though, I know there are quite a few people who are running the greek life office now who definitely try to repel those stereotypes. All our sororities have been dry for quite a while, but fraternities were just recently forced to go dry last year. Ironically, the two fraternities that wouldn't go dry, and therefore lost University support, were the two chapters that currently owned the houses featured in the movie, Pi Kappa Alpha and Sigma Nu. However, Sigma Nu has recently agreed to go dry, and now Phi Kappa Psi is taking over the Pike house and they will be dry as well. Phi Psi's were the original owners of the house, so it will be good to have them back on campus. I'm not sure what will become of the Pikes now. Sadly, their chapter hasn't been as strong since they agreed to stay a wet house.
I'd be interested to see if the fraternities on our campus have overall gotten smaller or bigger since the dry houses came into effect. It's hard to say, though I do miss the days when parties and functions didn't have so many rules and regulations. Some fraternities don't even participate in mixers at all, just because it's too big a risk. It takes a lot of fun out of the whole thing.
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