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The Dark Power of Fraternities – The Atlantic.

One warm spring night in 2011, a young man … was struck by what seemed to him—under the influence of powerful inebriants, not least among them the clear ether of youth itself—to be an excellent idea: he would shove a bottle rocket up his ass and blast it into the sweet night air. And perhaps it was an excellent idea. What was not an excellent idea, however, was to misjudge the relative tightness of a 20-year-old sphincter and the propulsive reliability of a 20-cent bottle rocket. What followed ignition was not the bright report of a successful blastoff, but the muffled thud of fire in the hole.

Though this article starts of with the above humorous anecdote, the main theme is bleakly serious and does not reflect well on the fraternity “industry” and culture or the universities that enable them.