----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Sharkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 8:05 PM Subject: Frat boys? (was Re: Br!n: LotR and Conservatives)
> > Davd Brin wrote contemptuously of: > >Frat boys. > > What's wrong with being a frat boy? Isn't brotherhood, booze and the pursuit of babes what America is all about? :-) My experience is from an earlier time; the late '70s and early '80s, when women were told to not walk down frat row for fear of getting raped. At that time, Wisconsin frats were filled with guys who joined because beer was part of the frat costs. Women were actually told not to walk in front of the frat houses at night because several women were assulted by multiple men they couldn't recognize. Now, this was almost 25 years ago, when Banker workshop week was known in advance because all the film societies advertised porn the next week. After 25 years, I don't remember enough to know if reality was as bad as the stories, but they did seem credible at the time. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
