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The Hanover Review, Inc.

A House of One's Own
by Catherine Muscat
Most of the press about Dartmouth's Greek crisis has focused almost exclusively on fraternities and the sound-bite friendly antics of Animal House. Unfortunately, the fate of almost half the Greeks has been ignored — the sororities. Under the guise of “improving gender relations,” the sororities have been caught in the crossfire of the administration's long-standing animosity towards the fraternities, inflicting potentially irrevocable damage to women's progress at Dartmouth.

Tragedy and Prohibition at U.Penn
by Alexander Nazaryan and John Carty
On March 21, 1999, the brothers of the University of Pennsylvania's FIJI fraternity held their annual alumni pig roast. Alcohol was served, though the event was not a registered party. Among those at the dinner was 26 year old Penn alumnus and FIJI brother Michael Tobin, a former lacrosse team captain and a third team All-Ivy League player. Sometime during the night, Tobin walked drunk out onto an outdoor stairwell on one of FIJI's upper floors. He never made it back inside. The death sent Penn students into collective shock.
Both the University and the FIJI's national office had placed the Penn charter on temporary suspension. Penn President Judith Rodin cited the suspension as an “initial step” to safeguarding against future abuse of alcohol. (FIJI's Penn chapter would voluntarily disband soon thereafter). But a much more drastic step to end alcohol abuse was taken later that day. Penn concluded that banning alcohol was the only viable method to prevent future tragedies like the Tobin one.

The Making of an Anti-Hero:
An Interview with Bret Easton Ellis
by Ram Murali
In his books, Bret Easton Ellis constructs a disturbing view of modern urban life in America. His characters and situations are very particular to a certain scene and way of life, but are panoramic in scope; they are the people we read about in magazines, the people who are famous for no known reason. Even when they are not famous per se, they travel in the same crowds, go to the same bars, have sex with the same people. Generally not popular with reviewers, his books tend to polarize people. In a candid interview, Ellis talks about college, violence, and the 1980s.

Editorial: Calculating Reaction
A Long Day's Journey into Albania by Christian Hummel
Our Father, Who Art in Spy Bar... by Ram Murali
Tropicalia: Thirty Years Too Early by Brianne Slade
Sleater-Kinney: Music for the Militant by Ram Murali

by Gordon Haff

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win great triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” —Theodore Roosevelt