Are Delta Chi chapters like the fraternities shown in Animal House?
Fraternities are values-based organizations dedicated to their founding values and the development of young men to successful alumni. Theyre also a lot of fun. If you take an organization that outwardly appears to be solely about having fun, with secret rituals and handshakes, and add the modern touch of shock entertainment, you get movies like Animal House and Van Wilder. But those Hollywood representations of college students are no more accurate than Police Academy III is to police officers or Airplane is to the aviation industry. Fraternities are a fun topic for movies and TV shows because we are proud to identify ourselves as a group, and we are more than comfortable with poking fun at ourselves. What most people dont see on TV or in the movies are the chapter meetings where we have speakers on sexual assault prevention, our community service projects, our study skills workshops, or our alumni reunions. We understand that our community service projects wouldnt make for good TV. In
