The attacks leveled against the article are precisely the ones one would expect, namely, that it overstates the extent to which the Dartmouth social scene is shaped by fraternities, that it relies on the recollections of a former fraternity brother who is equal parts disgruntled and vengeful, and that it draws a tenuous link between fraternity life and American corporate culture in order to sell magazines to an audience upset with Wall Street. Rolling Stone’s willingness to highlight Lohse’s checkered past means that the young man has struck many readers as a hypocritical figure, a fact that might explain why several individuals have penned articles criticizing the Rolling Stone article. If Rolling Stone painted a negative portrait of Dartmouth, it drew an equally unappealing picture of Lohse. As Rolling Stone took pains to point out, moreover, Lohse studied Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise before coming to college and, upon arriving at Dartmouth, made it his business to establish himself on the campus social scene as quickly as possible, a goal that led him to curry favor with the fraternity he would eventually join and later expose. But there is also the fact that many Dartmouth students see Lohse as the physician who won’t heal himself, for he was at one point suspended from Dartmouth for cocaine possession, and he appears to have begun his reformist efforts only after the drug bust and his subsequent disillusionment with Dartmouth. The simplest explanation for the backlash is that Dartmouth’s undergraduates are angry to see their laundry aired in public. If there is anything interesting about Lohse’s story, it is the fact that it has elicited so much resentment from the young man’s classmates. There is nothing surprising about Lohse’s claims social fraternities have long been known to rely on cheap bear, and on the insecurities of young men (and women) desperate for social acceptance, to bring out the lowest instincts in American college students. In the course of telling Lohse’s story, Rolling Stone made three assertions: first, that irresponsible fraternity brothers exert significant influence over the tenor of social life at Dartmouth second, that the aforementioned fraternity brothers are supported in their endeavors by a large network of equally irresponsible Dartmouth alums, many of whom work in the financial sector, where they perpetuate the modes of thought instilled in them by their fraternities and third, that many of Dartmouth’s students and administrators are in denial about the ways in which Greek life degrades higher education at Dartmouth. Lohse went on to censure Dartmouth administrators for failing to take action to reign in the school’s fraternities, reminding his readers that Dartmouth’s Greek system is in need of “extensive oversight and restructuring.” He also named names and took aim at Dartmouth’s president, Jim Yong Kim.Īfter several students attacked Lohse on The Dartmouth’s website, his story attracted the attention of Rolling Stone, which gave him an opportunity to elaborate on his experiences as a fraternity brother turned social reformer.
Fraternity life is at the core of human and cultural dysfunctions. have been implicitly encouraged to treat Dartmouth women with about the same respect with which we treated each other in our social spaces: none. As a pledge, I ceased to be a human being instead, I became “whale shit.” In the process, I, my fellow pledges and all pledges since.
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pool full of vomit, urine, fecal matter, semen and rotten food products eat omelets made of vomit chug cups of vinegar, which in one case caused a pledge to vomit blood drink beers poured down fellow pledges’ ass cracks and vomit on other pledges, among other abuses. I was a member of a fraternity that asked pledges, in order to become a brother, to: swim in a. In January of this year, Lohse published an op-ed in The Dartmouth, chronicling his experiences with a particular Dartmouth fraternity and reproaching the school’s network of Greek letter organizations-Dartmouth has long been a breeding ground for “Greek life”-of perpetuating a “pervasive hazing, substance abuse and sexual assault culture.” Here is the essence of Lohse’s exposé: Rolling Stone recently published a long story about Andrew Lohse, a Dartmouth senior who blew the whistle-assuming there was a whistle to blow-about hazing practices at his school’s social fraternities.
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