Last year as I walked back from the mail boxes at my apartment complex, the mailman in his little truck stopped me because he saw that I had letters on my sweatpants. He was a Sigma Tau Gamma from some little school in Pennsylvania, much like Faber College. We spoke for a while and he said that it was difficult for him to explain to people how it was to be in a house. He thought that if you had never been there then you just couldn't understand. He mentioned that people think that Animal House was absurd fiction, but he had read Chris Miller's book, which was the basis of the movie, as I had, and said that the movie was a toned down version of the book and the book was as it was.
I think that it is telling that in both the movie, as 33 girl has said, and the TV show Greeks, the uptight house were the antagonists to the welcoming house. People who were open to fraternity life, liked that. In the early 1970's fraternity life was declining but if you liked the movie, you may have checked out the houses when you get to college, if not, we liked it.
"Nobody Rages Anymore - The REAL Animal House!"
http://youtu.be/1KgP4SHUy6Q
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