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Originally Posted by ThetaPrincess24
I would be curious to see research or hear ideas on how this stereotype got started? A lot of people say it started with "Animal House."
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You're right in that the reputation proceeds "Animal House." For my senior thesis in college, I wrote about my college's attempt to calm the fraternity men down by building them their own quad. Just after World War II, there were all sorts of crazy things happening in our Greek system--knife fights, fraternization, etc. This wasn't just my college, either--this was going on all over the East Coast, if not the entire country. University administrations felt that by getting the fraternities out of their houses and into brand new quadrangles, that the nonsense would stop. I think by the time "Animal House" came out, that the schools figured they couldn't stop it. Also, changes in college life--mainly the elimination of
in loco parentis in the 60s--led to loosening of some rules.
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