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[APO-L] History Channel's "Frat Boys"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brown Michael-EMB021)
Tue Sep 2 11:30:54 2003
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 11:29:55 -0400
Reply-To: Brown Michael-EMB021 <Michael.R.Brown@motorola.com>
From: Brown Michael-EMB021 <Michael.R.Brown@motorola.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
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Monday, Sept 1, the History Channel ran an hour & a half show on college social fraternities called "Frat Boys". I taped it a watched it. Overall I thought it was fairly good.
The main part of the show looked at the fraternities at University of Mississippi, in particular following a group of students as they went thru the process of rush, bidding, and pledging Phi Delta Theta. They showed the chapter voting on bids. They also showed part of the pledge ceremony (which surprised me). They showed the pledges doing a lot of their pledge duties. They did not show the induction ceremony.
Interspaced with this, they showed segments on the history of Fraternities, tracing them from Fraternal Orgs like the masons, the establishment of Phi Beta Kappa, and the "Union Triad", and showed the development of fraternities to today. They also had interviews with some famous Fraternities members as well as school officials who spoke on different aspects of fraternities, good and bad. They, of course, touched on hazing, and what they had to say I thought was fairly good. There was also a portion of the show that got into secret societies like "Skull & Bones".
Chapters might find the segments on the history and development of fraternities of interest, as well as the segments on hazing.
Have others seen it? What do you think?
Michael Brown
APO LM & TB
