Originally Posted by
CDC84
The situation with frats is very serious, and the worst thing about it is that the large state universities (especially SEC schools which are located in desolate areas) promote it as a way of drawing in large numbers of students who, in all honesty, should be in a trade school or just working at the 7-11 for a few years to figure out what it is they want to do. I heard some staggering statistic....something like 85% of all residential students at Alabama belong to a frat or sorority. Of course not all of these student groups are the same. Although I do not agree with all of his solutions and criticisms, Murray Sperber (ex-Indiana professor and critic of Bob Knight) wrote a book called "Beer & Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education" which documents this phenomenon. If you go to some huge university with 40,000 students, kids become alienated and will do anything to fit in. Stupid things. Things that lead to death. Very different from what I think one poster here referred to as drinking "the Jesuit way."