Chauncey DeVega interview with Max Marshall
This interview with Marshall covers some of the history of fraternities (trying to exclude the rural poor from their clubs) , and their current status (still enormously influential as a network). The most popular, richest frats are not gentleman's clubs, but really a den of illegality and immorality-- the power in being the bad guys. They do not believe that the law or social conventions apply to them, but this is not just the cynical exemptions that those in power seek. Marshall suggests that the values are indeed inverted: there is more status in being wicked than honorable. One interesting point Marshall makes is that the movie "Animal House" saved frats-- they were languishing as establishment bastions in the 70s, but rebranded themselves as counter-cultural havens (without the economic resistance) after the movie was so successful.
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