Animal House in the WSJ... again

John Belushi as John Blutarsky/ Universal Pictures

Another article in the WSJ about Dartmouth, this one about Dartmouth frat culture by an '09 (recent graduate). Given the size of our school, I'm sure any '10 (rising senior) knows someone who knows her. Also, check out the comments on the article. Here's a choice one:

"The friends I made in college in the late 70s are still
my best friends today. We still get togther a few times a
year, but are nowhere near as wild as we were. We all
graduated, some of us pursued advanced degrees, and we are
all successful. We also have more fun when we get together
than we can ever have with our wives - and they know it!"

Really? More fun than you can ever have with your wives? No futher comment.

It seems like the zeitgeist is so Dartmouth-centric recently -- it's increasingly "cool" to namedrop or mention Dartmouth, whether in an article about preppy clothing or when referencing the over-consumptive college frat culture. I mentioned this to a friend interning in D.C., and this is what she had to say on it (both enlightening and dorky, and I agree with her):

---Georgina wrote ---

is it just me or is the[sic] more and more focus on dartmouth
recently?
--- End of quote ---

you mean in the press or the WSJ? we've had lots of
reasons to come up in the news lately - 1) new prez, 2)
the Dartmouth Atlas of Health (check it out - it's REALLY
famous and REALLY impressive that our researchers are
doing work that's SO instrumental in shaping the health
care debate that's dominating the press and politics), 3)
higher education in the face of the recession is a big,
big issue, 4) tim geithner!

haha

WE ARE SO COOL

and dartmouth has always gotten way more facetime in the
wsj than is strictly necessary haha

The best part is definitely "haha/ WE ARE SO COOL". At Dartmouth, that is called a self-call.

^-^