Shawn Collins pledged a fraternity in fall 1988 and kept a diary of his experiences.
I paid my way through college with a combination of a Stafford Loan and working menial jobs. But often, there were shortfalls, and I couldn’t afford some expenses that would come up, like food. Fortunately, when I was a fraternity pledge in the first semester of my freshman year, I was sent to cover for…
I decided to join a fraternity sometime during the spring of my junior year in high school. The town where we lived, Laurel, MD, was a generic strip mall suburb. We lived in the central part of town, a predominantly middle-class area of townhouses, apartments, and run-down single-family homes. On a typical Friday night, if…