Three for Ship: A Swan Song to Dartmouth Beer Pong

by Crispus Knight

In the darkened, fetid basements of Dartmouth College's fraternities and sororities, the sacred ritual of Beer Pong has been practiced with a curious passion by generations of inebriated ivy-league students. A culture of binge-drinking, debauched parties, drunken feats-of-strength, and booting and rallying has arisen around Pong and is embraced by much of the campus as being inextricably tied to the grossly misrepresented ideal of the Dartmouth man or woman. Three for Ship tells the uncensored story of one man's obsession with Pong and the nightly battles waged against his drunken alter ego, Balls, on the Pong tables of the notorious Chi-Gam basement. This raw, emotional chronicle of a fraternity Pong player is a portrait of a sick and masochistic young man walking a fine line between what would be considered a normal college partying experience and something much more twisted and sinister. Pong, by its very nature, had incited a terrible rampage of self-destructive tendencies and unapologetic nihilism that crashed violently into what had until that point been a promising young academic career.

247 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2013

Reviews

[Fawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

An honest look inside life in the binge-drinking frat culture, Three for Ship neither glorifies nor vilifies the Greek system itself, but shows how one's life can change course if they allow themselves to be consumed by the possibilities that Greek life presents.