High Risk Drinking

Fraternities Party it Up

Carla Mayfield

DeVry/Chamberlain College of Nursing

If you can remember your college years, then you couldn’t have enjoyed them to their greatest potential! In National Lampoon’s Animal House, the comedy illustrates the picture-perfect setting for alcohol in a post-secondary college for the young Delta fraternity students (Landis, 1978). This uncontrollable rowdy bunch of Delta frat boys use sex, drugs, and mostly alcohol to interpret the reality in their new found freedom away from parents in a troubled frat house off campus. Animal House is most notable for young college guys to “party it up” and play stupid disgusting particle jokes on anyone outside their Delta frat brotherhood. These acts resulted into complete embarrassment for the Dean who consequently places them on probation. With the continued acts of disregard from the Delta house; the Dean places the fraternity on a secret double probation hoping to shut the Delta house down with help from the Omegas, a rival and more traditional fraternity. With too many hilarious scenes to mention, this comedy is still very popular with young adult males today; with many of the young adult males looking to this comedy for a learning tool on how to survive college outside of the comforts from their parental.

Every parent’s nightmare college frats! Did I raise my child to drink alcohol or will this be a new influence from their college peers? Bluto stated in the movie “My advice to you is to start drinking heavily” in which Otter replied”You better listen to him, flounder. He’s Pre-Med” (Landis, 1978). With the rambunctious college frat boys, drinking was a way to socialize emotionally and physically to fit into the new roles of the college life. Erikson’s theory “intimacy versus isolation” would conclude that if the Delta frat boys did not participate in the frat house way of life (drinking), then they would be out casted from the social normalcies of a college and the frat way of...