It differs at some schools-- at mine, everyone lived on-campus and there was no fraternity housing; there were no sororities; some fraternities were co-ed drinking groups; and none had a national charter. (All the national charters were revoked in the early nineties.)

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sumi, the I is for Illinois, yes? I'm pretty sure that wiki article said the University of Illnois had a larger Greek system than any other school.

It differs at some schools-- at mine, everyone lived on-campus and there was no fraternity housing; there were no sororities; some fraternities were co-ed drinking groups; and none had a national charter. (All the national charters were revoked in the early nineties.)

That's something I've found frustrating in the discussions this season--pretty much every place that isn't here.

I don't mean specifically to the Greek stuff, but in general, I've read posters calling b.s. on a particular feature of Hearst, because their own schools did something differently (e.g. what level of key-access an RA would have, etc). Different schools do things differently, and an awful lot of posters (particularly on LJ, but some at TWoP, too) seem to think their own college experience is THE college experience.

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I've seen that at TWoP too. The RA-key argument was pretty egregious. For my part, I've been rolling my eyes every time anything having to do with a "criminology department" is mentioned, even though I know a few schools have it.

(A final paper on the perfect crime? Really? Sounds hard!)

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It had the largest Greek system when I was an undergrad. I guess somethings never change.

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The fraternities and sororities at my undergrad school (Seton Hall) each got a table in the cafeteria. That was the extent of the on-campus presence. At least one actually had a house, but they shared it with the chapter from Rutgers-Newark, so they were way off campus. My grad school, OTOH, has a bunch of houses both on and just off campus. I'm pretty sure the ones on campus have arrangements similar to condos. The buildings are owned by the frat, but the university owns the land. A few of the older houses close by the quad have been bought out and either repurposed or torn down by the university in recent years.

Also, it's now a dry campus, so no more beer blasts. Very different from when I was there.

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I don't mean specifically to the Greek stuff, but in general, I've read posters calling b.s. on a particular feature of Hearst, because their own schools did something differently (e.g. what level of key-access an RA would have, etc). Different schools do things differently, and an awful lot of posters (particularly on LJ, but some at TWoP, too) seem to think their own college experience is THE college experience.

I'm sure I'm guilty of this kind of complaint, especially with the plagiarism episode. I know that campus life is so close to home for me that I have different expectations, but mostly I can accept all the little ridiculous details of this Fictional!Campus. It's a TV show. But to me, there are just so many incidents this season that bug and take me out of the story because I'm just sure that, because of legal or liability issues, they wouldn't be possible anymore--even allowing for extreme variations between schools. I guess much of what Veronica did in high school was just so out there I could go with it, whereas this year they seem to be trying to make it seem more realistic/probable, and that's where they lose me.

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I don't remember rolling my eyes here. The posts here always seem more question/clarification/explanation/nitpick than argument, anyhow (even our arguments are more like that). I saw people (out there) having Stance-Taking arguments about college life details, and in most, it was pretty clear the arguers had each been to one college.

It feels like I saw more arguments about details (out there) than about the portrayal of feminists.

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I didn't really think you were rolling your eyes. I just figured I would acknowledge my issues, which mostly stem from my frustration with developments in the profession. When failing a student requires extra paperwork, and you can no longer send group emails to your students because of legal issues, you tend to look at what happens on this show with a jaundiced eye.

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College has been so long ago for me, and not really in a strict campus setting (NYU and Hunter) that I can't speak to what most college life is like, especially now.

I'm still wondering about the GHB issue, and Mercer's possession of it. Did I miss the reason they let him off the hook for that the first time? And is there any legitimate use for that drug?

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It's an anesthetic, and used to treat some cases of insomnia, according to wikipedia.

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