My Boy Friend Ivy
M/TMdeilyQ5II/AAAAAAAAAaI/DpTdK_HX0LA/s1600/IMG_6043.jpg' alt='My Boy Friend Ivy' title='My Boy Friend Ivy' />Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy Inside Dartmouths Hazing Abuses. Andrew Lohse visits the Dartmouth campus where he has come forward to report on the significant hazing practices taking place at fraternities. Antonio Bolfo. Long before Andrew Lohse became a pariah at Dartmouth College, he was just another scarily accomplished teenager with lofty ambitions. Five feet 1. 0 with large blue eyes and the kind of sweet faced demeanor that always earned him a pass, he grew up in the not quite rural, not quite suburban, decidedly middle class town of Branchburg, New Jersey, and attended a public school where he made mostly As, scored 2. SATs and compiled an exhaustive list of extracurricular activities that included varsity lacrosse, model U. N. he was president, National Honor Society, band, orchestra, Spanish club, debate and on weekends a special pre college program at the Manhattan School of Music, where he received a degree in jazz bass. He also wrote songs gigged semiprofessionally at restaurants throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut played drums for a rock band chased, and conquered, numerous girls and by his high school graduation, in 2. That was such a beautiful walk you took in those woods Who knew youd come in contact with that part of nature youd rather not touch poison ivy and poison oak. That fall, he enrolled at Dartmouth, where he had wanted to go for as long as he could remember. His late grandfather, Austin Lohse, had played football and lacrosse for Big Green, and both Andrew and his older brother, Jon, a Dartmouth junior, idolized him as the embodiment of the high achieving, hard drinking, fraternal ethos of the Dartmouth Man, or what Lohse calls a true bro. A Dartmouth Man is a specific type of creature, and when I ask Lohse what constitutes true bro ness, he provides an idealized portrait of white male privilege good looking, preppy, charismatic, excellent at cocktail parties, masculine, intelligent, wealthy or soon to become so, a little bit rough around the edges not, in other words, a douchey, superpolished Yalie. A true bro, Lohse adds, can also drink inhuman amounts of beer, vomit profusely and keep on going, and perform a number of other hard partying feats Dartmouth provided the real life inspiration for Animal House that most people, including virtually all of Lohses high school friends, would find astounding. Education and School Idioms. A for effort the recognition that someone has tried hard to do something even though he or she may not be successful. JAzT0Kw/TuFzA_6cbDI/AAAAAAAABSM/668W61aq9P4/s640/31306650.jpg' alt='My Boy Friend Ivy' title='My Boy Friend Ivy' />
This, like the high salaries that Dartmouth graduates command the sixth highest in the country, according to the most recent estimates is a point of pride. We win, is how one of Lohses former buddies puts it. On January 2. 5th, Andrew Lohse took a major detour from the winning streak hed been on for most of his life when, breaking with the Dartmouth code of omert, he detailed some of the choicest bits of his college experience in an op ed for the student paper The Dartmouth. I was a member of a fraternity that asked pledges, in order to become a brother, to swim in a kiddie pool 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 beer poured down fellow pledges ass cracks. He accused Dartmouths storied Greek system 1. One of the things Ive learned at Dartmouth one thing that sets a psychological precedent for many Dartmouth men is that good people can do awful things to one another for absolutely no reason, he said. Loader For Windows 7 Ultimate. Fraternity life is at the core of the colleges human and cultural dysfunctions. Lohse concluded by recommending that Dartmouth overhaul its Greek system, and perhaps get rid of fraternities entirely. This did not go over well. At a college where two thirds of the upperclassmen are members of Greek houses, fraternities essentially control the social life on campus. To criticize Dartmouths frats, which date back more than 1. Dartmouth itself, the smallest and most insular school in the Ivy League. Nestled on a picturesque campus in tiny Hanover, New Hampshire, the college has produced a long list of celebrated alumni among them two Treasury secretaries Timothy Geithner, 8. Henry Paulson Jr., 6. Labor secretary Robert Reich, 6. CEOs of GE, e. Bay and Freddie Mac, and the former chairman of the Carlyle Group. Many of these titans of industry are products of the fraternity culture Billionaire hedge fund manager Stephen Mandel, who chairs Dartmouths board of trustees, was a brother in Psi Upsilon, the oldest fraternity on campus. Jeffery Immelt, the CEO of GE, was a Phi Delt, as were a number of other prominent trustees, among them Morgan Stanley senior adviser R. Bradford Evans, billionaire oilman Trevor Rees Jones and venture capitalist William W. Helman IV. Hank Paulson belonged to Lohses fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, or SAE. In response to Lohses op ed, the Dartmouth community let loose a torrent of vitriol against him on The Dartmouths website. Lohse, it was decided, was disgruntled and a criminal. His blanket and bitter portrayal of the Greek system was not only false, complained one alumnus, but offensive to tens of thousands of Dartmouth alumni who cherished the memories of their fraternities. Another alumnus put it this way in a mock letter to a human resources manager Dear Hiring Manager, do yourself a favor Dont hire Andrew Lohse. He will bring disgrace to your institution, just as he did when he embarrassed Dartmouth and SAE. The consensus, as another alum put it If you dont want to be initiated, dont pledge. Though two of Lohses SAE brothers have confirmed his allegations are generally on the mark, the fraternity has turned on Lohse, portraying him as a calculating fabulist who bought into the Greek system wholeheartedly and then turned against it out of sheer vindictiveness. In a letter to Rolling Stone, SAEs lawyer, Harvey Silverglate, labeled some of Lohses most extreme allegations demonstrably untrue and compared Lohse to the stripper who falsely accused a number of Duke lacrosse players of raping her in 2. Lohse is. a seemingly unstable individual, Silverglate wrote, with a very poor reputation for truth telling and a very big axe to grind. This is not the first time that SAE has come under fire for hazing abuses, or the first time the house has closed ranks against an attack In 2. Dartmouth faculty accused the fraternity of making pledges chug milk and vinegar until they threw up. According to Lohse and two other SAE alums, the brothers agreed to deny the charges, and discussed in detail how to respond when questioned by college officials. This culture of silence, as some on campus describe it, is both a product of the Greek systems ethos and the shield that enables it to operate with impunity. The fraternities here have a tremendous sense of entitlement a different entitlement than you find at Harvard or other Ivy League schools, says Michael Bronski, a Dartmouth professor of womens and gender studies. Their members are secure that they have bright futures, and they just dont care. I actually see the culture as being predicated on hazing. Theres a level of violence at the heart of it that would be completely unacceptable anywhere else, but here, its just the way things are. Not so long ago, hazing was viewed at many universities as nothing but pranks, which deans might have privately deplored but nonetheless tolerated. Today, hazing is illegal in 4. New Hampshire and many colleges have aggressively cracked down on fraternity abuses. Those that failed to do so have increasingly found themselves on the wrong side of the law.