Comments on: Why I hate frat parties

By: anon

anon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:26:14 +0000

Jones,
Try as you might to sound intelligent with your allusions to gigantic rectums, your argument is based on naive generalizations and lacks taste, wit, intelligence, and decency.

Come off your high horse and learn to write. That comment is full of the same hollow, pretentious prose that plagues the university scene.

By: Jones

Jones — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:24:41 +0000

Frat parties – and frats in general – are indicative of just how stupid the majority of the human race is. Frats are for halfwit drunks and druggies with no taste, wit, intelligence, or decency.

A frat house is nothing more than a gigantic rectum where human fecal matter congregates.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:56:11 +0000

The reasons you give are as foolish and shallow as the parties themselves, with the exception of “getting away from creepers”. Maybe frat parties suck because they are full of sub-standard bigots to whom the word consent is a one word joke.

By: Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:27:33 +0000

Wow, this article makes you sound like an elitist bitch. And I’m not even in a frat.

By: jacob

jacob — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:45:54 +0000

I dont know what fraternity parties you ladies have been too, obviously either a shitty ass house or a tiny college frat, but you need to go to a real frat house that knows how to throw a party because no dinky ass apartment party with 20 people will ever compare to a massive house party at a good fraternity.

By: Megan

Megan — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:29:50 +0000

I agree about this whole article. Frat parties just consist of people standing around drunk. What does this accompish? Nothing. I mean, if you want to have that, at least have more than beer and sketchy punch. That’s gross.

By: Katy

Katy — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:06:57 +0000

Yeahhh…I’d have to disagree on the part about lack of women at frat parties, too. There have ALWAYS been more girls at EVERY party I end up at, frat or not.

By: Shayden

Shayden — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:04:42 +0000

It’s just an opinion.

Chill out, broseph.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:27:40 +0000

The sole purpose of frat parties are a way to get a bunch of women up north… if you noticed a lack of women, then clearly that frat sucks.

Also there’s an obvious social divide between North and South campus. Some Northerners don’t even know what Ridge and Davis implies.

And the best apartment parties are hard to come by. But they are well worth the search, the walk past Sheridan and the Escort wait.

The best things in life always are.

By: Tom Nunlist

Tom Nunlist — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:19:16 +0000

I agree: frat parties (at least at Northwestern) suck, but for different reasons, mainly LACK of women. I have never been to a party at Northwestern where the girls outnumbered the guys. Ever. I don’t know what frat you went to that this was the case, but clue me in, please. I want a piece of the action. On a sidenote, I don’t know where you are getting your information about private all-boys schools. I went to one and I can honestly say I have never witnessed what you described.

Frat’s aside, I think you are missing the bigger picture: Northwestern has a crappy party scene in general. I have never been to one of the satisfying apartment parties you speak of. The truth is, they tend to be even worse. Crowded, sweaty, and the beer always runs out in 25 minutes, not to mention the nerve racking shake of the floor which feels as if it will collapse at a moments notice.

You also claim that ‘fraternity party’ is preferred over ‘frat paty’. Where did you get that tidbit? I don’t know any brothers who would give a damn either way. Similarly, you make it sound as if there is a substantial film-and-theater-phobic population on campus. Who are these people again? I don’t know any. Personally, I don’t see why the worlds of frats and theater/film majors don’t mix. Nice job explaining yourself.

You said ‘it’s been nearly two years since I’ve gone to [a frat party].’ What then gives you the authority to comment? I remember reading somewhere that a good writer writes what she knows. Clearly you have no idea what you’re talking about.