Always good, here at University Diaries, to look in on foreign fraternities and their way-cool activities. Here in the States, fraternities shuttle between good deeds at the local hospital and parties where they drink themselves to death. In Germany, it’s more retro, more teutonic, more… er… let’s not go any farther forward in time…
Our boys dress down; their boys love a man in cadet slacks. Our boys carry Bud cans; theirs carry rapiers. Ours stagger en masse down State U Boulevard; theirs stage torch-light parades.