@burke: At the university I attended first (Carnegie-Mellon), the frats were full of rich, spoiled, bullies, and I'm afraid I knew way too much about them since one year, my dorm was directly facing the fraternity row. I would get beer bottles thrown at me on the way back to my dorm sometimes, the music was blasting from 6 foot speakers set up on their porches aimed at the dorms, and there were several frats playing different music at the same time. There were always incidents of abusiveness, drunkenness (underage, too), drugging and raping girls, beating up the nerd, black kid, foreign non-white kid, whatever. The frat boys always got away with it, at most getting a reprimand with no punishment or suspension, not to mention no jail time. The campus police wouldn't do anything because, technically the frat houses were private (not campus) property, and the city police didn't want to get involved in campus matters. And their fathers would always pay off any trouble they did get into with the "boys will be boys" attitude. Basically, most of the frat boys I encountered were disgusting pigs, and that's one of the reasons I never found the animal house movies to be funny at all.
