Jana Giles’s Reviews > Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story > Status Update

"If there was one movie that inspirwd the boys that semester it was The Wolf of Wall Street [....] and the [Kappa Alphas] didn't see it as satire."

"A few of the Owl's customers' [underage college students] showed up to pay for their kids' fake [IDs] themselves, and my friend's dad framed his [fake] ID from the early 1980s next to his son's from 2012."

"the Charleston police had underreported the amount of Xanax they'd seized by more than 8,000 percent, and they hadn't charged anyone for the pills." Between this and the Murdaughs, I have to loathe SC.

Working through this textbook on white male toxic masculinity. Hazing is technically banned technically by fraternities, "But in terms of the Greek thinkers, Christian knights, and British lords that these books [frat handbooks] teach kids to emulate, the temporary degradation feels on brand." The drinking, involuntary buggery, and hierarchical servitude of pledges of course hearkens back to English public schools.