Critical Study Of American Fraternities

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Caitlin Flanagan investigates American fraternities in an effective way which cause you to conclude that they are beneficial as well as dangerous. Fraternities can destroy the character of a person, but also provide protection and confidence substantially. She continues to emphasize the choice selection of each of the members chosen. Even though, significance comes into account about your identity:your name, worth of family, last name, family history, academics, etc.; she explains how the fraternity culture needs more attention. “A recent series of articles on fraternities by Bloomberg News’s David Glovin and John Hechinger notes that since 2005, more than 60 people-the majority of them students-have died in incidents linked to fraternities, a sobering number in itself, but one that is dwarfed by the numbers of serious injuries, assaults, and sexual crimes that regularly take place in these houses”(Flanagan,Article,175). …show more content…
According to Flanagan “Fraternity life was reborn with vengeance(Flanagan, Article,186). She also believed that there was adults trying to banish the members in the fraternity due to start of hazing. The frats has differ over time involving the opportunities now than the opportunities they had when it first began. College fraternities-by which term of art I refer to the formerly all-white, now nominally integrated men’s “general” or “social” fraternities on American campuses (religious, ethnic, academics) - are as old, almost, as the republic”(Flanagan,