In a related lecture, Ove said, "By creating a model fraternity, so to speak, we make a contribution to what is almost the central problem of our time: how to overcome the social friction and strife which threatens to overwhelm mankind.
In the appalling Old School, a trio of discontented thirtysomething adolescents attempt to rediscover their youth by creating a hell-raising fraternity house on the fringe of the local university, with Saturday Night Live star Will Ferrell emulating the raucous vulgarity of John Belushi.
Established in 1902, the original goal of the trust fund was to foster peace among the great powers by creating a sense of fraternity and a shared world view among future British, American, and German leaders by having enabled them to study for free at the University of Oxford.
Others said the sober-living home is a business that doesn't belong in a residential neighborhood and that housing so many men together creates a disruptive, fraternity house-style atmosphere.
By intentionally creating a male-female imbalance, fraternity men present themselves with greater options, while women are forced to compete for limited male attention.
As a result, many of the students live in off-campus apartments and join sororities and fraternities, creating a sense of fragmentation on an already large campus.
Also appearing in English translation now is Sorokin's 700-page ICE TRILOGY (New York Review Books, paper, $19.95), a science fiction epic in which a meteorite strikes Siberia, creating a blond, blue-eyed master fraternity whom no one could love but themselves.
"They had the opportunity to create an academic fraternity," Dr. Lattimer.
Called Wescam, it was created by a fraternity member for a baldly specific purpose: it enables participants to hook up with seniors the week before they graduate.
That night Thayer and his team will light the petroleum, creating a huge flare that will "petition for man's membership in the fraternity of planetary civilizations".
