In his editorial, editor-in-chief Travis Mush*tt says he wants to get "past the polarization," but then proceeds to devoting an entire issue of his paper to attacking fraternities from every possible angle.
According to the DFP, fraternities are seedy, disgusting, crude, strange, pointless, and unpleasant. On the back page, there are fake pro/con articles, with "Jaded '07 Guy" writing:
Fuck group-think."Naive '10 Girl" chimes in:
Fuck male dominated social scenes.
Fuck wasting time.
I met this super hot Chi Gam brother who taught me how to play pong... Pretty soon, I was having trouble standing up and I noticed all my friends were gone... I didn't think he liked me, but after game four, we made out for hours!... He never confirmed my friend request, but I heard that upperclassmen never even use Facebook anyway.When I first saw the latter piece, I thought it came straight from the Dartmouth Review. Not only is it blatently stereotypical, but it also portrays "Naive '10 Girl" as having deserved being taken advantage of.
At least back in the day, the DFP ran articles supporting both sides. How exactly is this moving past the polarization?
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It gets past the polarization because few, if any, of the authors actually blame the houses or their members for our scene's disfunctional and outright problematic components.
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