Why the attack on the traditional college experience?

Well stated jwb

Great that your PERSONAL fraternity experience can be remembered as positive, but that's not everyone's. There have been numerous reports of hazing gone too far, and personal anecdotes from a single person don't make that go away.

And the "traditional system" ends up approving of the institute, and the line "don't be so quick to judge" is used against BOTH sides.

When you're 17 a cow can seem dangerous and forbidden...am I alone here?

I like the stat about our leaders being frat boys. Just goes to show you that you only get anywhere if you know the right people. Have fun in your little club, I prefer gaining friends for life through... you know... actual friendship, not hazing, drinking, and orgies.

If you think the current state of the country is ok, then go ahead and brag about that 76% frat boy Senate crap, lol.

"Gruelling Psychological tests"?
Really? Why would you want to degrade yourself and make a full out of yourself to be accepted by a group of people i can only assume are douchebags. Maybe a jump, but to "haze" someone to be there "brother" tradition or not strikes me as a pretty *beep* thing to do.

Also i know dozens of kids who didn't get into college or even state colleges due to grades, it does happen.

Granted this has little to do with what this thread was all about but still!

Anyone?
No...

I'll get my coat.

With an open mind you'll enjoy a feel-good experience with movies like this; otherwise you'll end up with negativity and criticism. Personally I don't really agree with the movie's message, yet it still is one of my favorites'. Many scenes of the movie are hilarious, worthy of rewatching. As long as the producers have put some efforts in, I'd just enjoy movies for what they are.

Also *beep* is every slacker teenager's dream, so you can take the movie as a nice little fantasy. Just like those movies where the losers get the hot girls-- don't take them too serious.

Yeah, frat guys have the stereotype of being douches. They also have the stereotype of being the leaders of our country.

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We should start out by acknowledging that this is a fictional movie and a comedy at that, not a documentary. FYI; when you were pointing out unrealistic parts of the movie I think you forgot to mention that college Deans are not in charge of land acquisition for schools, nor do those Deans draft students to head up those land grabs, also people can't blow stuff up with their mind. That being said, sometimes works of fiction use hyperbole in order to make a point or suggest an underlying truth. Granted there is a great deal of hyperbole in this movie. Both with respect to the premise on which it is founded as well as plot points and some of the action which takes place. However, there is a truth to this movie in the discussion that sometimes college rules and regulations can stymie the opportunity for learning on the part of students. The problems that the Monica character faced with respect to her photography classes (which was the rationale behind the curriculum at *beep* are very real in actual colleges. For example a local college (in Ohio, where this movie is set) will not allow non-theater majors to take an acting class. This movie does not say that colleges are "trying to stifle individuality" but it does suggest that they may inadvertently do so by getting lost in the job training aspect of a college education. Had you listened to all of "Bartleby's lame speech at the end" then maybe you would have heard him point out there is room for both theories in higher education.
As for your concerns with the portrayal of Fraternities in the movie I feel that the activities shown were not all that unrealistic. Save for the fact that the movie suggested that a Fraternity would gang up on one of its pledges because the college Dean wanted to close a business deal. I also have to point out, as an actual fraternity member, that you don't really go a long way toward dispelling the fraternity douchebag stereotype with your post. Also if you would have read the entire page from which you copied your fraternity statistics (which I imagine is the full extent of your fraternity experience) then you would have read that fraternities are good for students for many of the same reasons that the made up college in this movie purports to be good for students. Primarily that it provides something other than the traditional, in class, college experience that you also try to defend in your post.