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(upbeat music)

(classical music)

- We saw their women.

Now, we see the men.

- Hi, guys.

Come on in.

Kevin Davis.

Have some sparkling apple cider.

Here, sign the rush book.

There you go,

- Oh, thanks, Kevin.

- Pre-Med, huh?

- Right.

- You get a lot of studying done here.

We have a good academic atmosphere,

but we have a lot of fun here

at Phi Nu Fraternity.

- I'm with you all the way.

- Really?

- Really.

- That's great.

You won't regret it.

- Excuse me, was that Phi Nu Fraternity?

- Since 1919.

- It's the wrong house.

- Phi Nu?

- Yeah, Phi Nu.

- Well actually, we're looking for Delta Rho Chi.

- Oh.

You're one house off,

but stay, meet some of the guys.

Take a look at our mini mainframe.

It's really state of the art.

- Why don't you stay.

Take a look at their mainframe.

- Sorry, but I'll be back.

Alright, promise.

That's a great book.

- They seemed nice.

- Yeah.

I think he was real interested.

(upbeat music)

- I like this guy with the dark hair.

- He's Jewish.

- What about this guy?

Right there?

(upbeat music)

- Druggy.

- Well, you know,

we could use a druggy.

(laughter)

- Wait a minute, wait, wait a minute.

This is perfect.

Check out his friend.

His friend.

- The Chink?

- Embrace the 90s.

The future's in the Pacific Rim.

(upbeat music)

- This is great.

This is like taking candy away from a baby.

Well, don't just stand there.

These women are not only gorgeous,

but they're legal.

- Hey.

- What?

- We're in a rape case.

(soft music)

? We never thought we'd find a place where we belong

? Don't have to stand alone

? We'll never let you fall

? Don't need permission to decide what you believe

? I said jump

? Down on Jump Street

? I said jump

? Down on Jump Street

? Your friends will be there

? When your back is to the wall

? You'll find you'll need us

? Cause there's no one else to call

? When it was hopeless

? A decision's what you need

? You better be ready to

? Be ready to

? Jump

? 21 Jump Street

- You two are very lucky.

We're talking the fast track here, gentlemen.

You come out of this house.

You come out connected.

- I'm already connected.

- Prescott, Rosewall, and Patterson

is a very prestigious law firm.

I mean,

it's fine.

If you don't mind working for your dad.

What I'm saying here

is pick your field.

- Delta Rho is all over the country.

We always take

a special look at our own.

- Not to mention six US senators,

20 congressman, and a vice president.

All Delta Rho's.

- Glad you didn't mention that.

- Well, my father has always said

that the right fraternity can be a great stepping stone.

- Your father's a very wise man.

He'd have to be to build a company

like the Pacific Macroplex in just 20 years, huh?

- Yeah, but

women?

- Bottom line guy.

I like it.

You guys will think you died and went to heaven.

I mean,

you guys think you were players in high school.

This is the place where you can refine your skills.

- We have the best sister house on campus.

Kappa Omega Psi's.

- The type you bring home to mom, but

nail on the couch in the living room.

- Well, I'm not really interested

in bringing them home to mom.

- These women are all over the place, guys.

Dormies, townies off the street,

and they all want frat guys.

Pick 'em, pluck 'em,

- [Both] Send 'em back to study hall.

- That's interesting.

- Very interesting.

- Gentlemen,

how would you like to pledge the hottest frat on campus?

- It's so nice to run across someone

who clearly belongs here.

- So, are you still a little sister to Delta Rho?

- Yeah, of course.

- You are, so come on,

what are they like?

Are they cool or what?

- Oh, the coolest.

The guys are incredible.

The kind you can take home to meet your parents

and they don't mind leaving the two of you alone together.

- They're mostly pre-law and business majors.

There's a few jocks.

No nerds.

- Forget it.

I'm not gonna join a nerd frat.

- I think you're gonna have to.

- Booker, they might have picked up something on the rape.

I mean, they are right next door to Delta Rho,

and they've been terrorized by those guys for years.

- They're nerds.

They deserve to be terrorized.

- What a guy.

- Yeah, well,

look at it this way, Book.

You can't blame 'em for wanting one cool guy in the house.

You'll live,

- Come on, you can be just like Fonzi.

- Alright, Hoffs is in a sorority.

Penhall is in the dorm working the victims brother.

I want a good clean bust here.

- How clean could it be?

Cindy Wilson says she was raped.

The prep work says she pulled a train.

- Booker,

90% of gang rapes on college campuses

take place in fraternity houses.

It's a closed door society, guys.

You're gonna have to become one of them

to get them to confide in you.

That means going through the entire initiation process.

- Captain Fuller?

- Yes, Booker.

- What about Penhall?

Put him in the nerd frat.

- Too late.

He's already checked in the dorm.

- Yeah, get the ball.

(upbeat music)

- Would you knock it off.

I can't even hear myself think.

- We gotta wait for the curtain.

- Does this guy ever smile?

He's only been my roommate for two days

and he hasn't said three words to me.

- He's real upset about his sister.

- His sister?

- Yeah.

She dropped out the first day.

The night before, she was at some frat party.

Ended up with her back on a pool table,

if you know what I mean.

- She raped?

- Hey, I don't know man.

I wasn't there.

- Dennis, Dennis?

- Yeah?

- You're not gonna miss the disk copying party tonight,

are you?

- Oh, never.

- Okay.

- The what?

- The disk copying part,

we're getting hold of a program

that's gonna let us copy right protected disks.

You don't wanna miss this.

- No.

I kinda have to study, so.

- What's your GPA?

- Three point eight.

- It's too bad.

Don't worry about it.

We can get you in to some good study habits,

and get that average right up there.

- Thanks.

- Oh, listen.

We're going over to Stoney's.

You know, get some burgers

and cruise for chicks.

- Cruise for chicks, huh?

I'm in.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- Great.

That's great.

- Come here.

I gotta ask you something, alright?

Now, I heard

when a guy pledges a house,

he has to go through all these tortures like

drinking out of a toilet bowl,

eating raw eggs,

putting flies on his tongue--

- No, no, no.

We like to think we're a little above that sort

of gratuitous degradation of our friends and colleagues.

- Gratuitous?

- Alright.

Now.

Your first responsibility

as a pledge

is to learn the history of the fraternity.

Second,

you will memorize the name and bios

of every active and pledge brother.

The latter should be accomplished by say

9 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Gentlemen, it's really not that difficult.

Observe.

Harry Tanaka.

West Minster Prep.

Your father is president of Pacific Macroplex.

Cultural attache to Japan from 1978 to 1982.

Thomas Harrison Prescott III.

Your father's a partner at Prescott,

Patterson and Rosewall.

Your great grandfather

was a architect of the State Capital building in 1909.

Yes?

Thank you.

Carrie Morton.

Oh, the infamous Carrie Morton.

Your brother was an active here two years ago.

Your father was president of Delta Rho

from 1957 to 1958,

and he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1971.

Served as ambassador to Ireland from 81 to 84, yes?

- Yeah.

- Thank you.

Okay.

Need I say more?

Now.

I wish you all the very very best of luck

as I leave you in the trusted hands

of your pledge master, Michael McCarter.

- Welcome to hell week, gentlemen.

I want you all to stare at the portrait

of our founding father,

General William Fullwood of the Confederate Army.

During this week, you will be put through

a number of activities that will help

test your mental attitude,

as well as develop your personal character.

You won't sleep, as we will work round the clock

to mold you in to brothers.

A brother is someone who embodies

honor, trust, and friendship.

You will learn all three.

As a pledge, you must do anything asked

of you by an active.

As a pledge, you must also be dressed identically.

Off campus, in class, in the house,

and I mean identically.

White vans, blue Levi's, white t-shirts.

If one of you is wearing a Hanes t-shirt that day,

all of you must be wearing Hanes t-shirts that day.

You will carry pledge change at all times.

Pledge change shall consist of three dimes and a quarter.

Carry it in the right pocket.

Mr. Prescott.

Your shirt sleeves are rolled up.

- Yes, they are.

- Your other brothers don't have

their shirt sleeves rolled up.

I guess you don't care about your other pledge brothers.

You only care about yourself.

So, why don't we all drop and give me 50 push-ups

while Mr. Prescott, this individual, watches.

Now, gentlemen.

Now, go.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Five.

It's really very simple, guys.

When I say fork,

pick up a fork in your right hand,

and put it in the left slot.

When I say spoon,

pick up a spoon in the left hand

and put it in the middle slot.

When I say knife,

pick up a knife in your right hand,

and put it in the right hand slot.

Always keep track of how many utensils are in each slot.

Okay?

- Give 'em hell, Harry.

- No talking.

Fork,

knife.

Spoon.

Knife.

Fork.

No.

Concentrate.

Come on, you guys.

What are you morons?

Now, over here,

we have some raw egg cocktails,

got some buttermilk,

got some prime liver,

and my personal favorite,

chili pepper.

Actually, it's really chili chap rub

because the next mistake,

your brother gets to rub it all over his lips.

Fork.

Knife.

Spoon.

Spoon.

Knife.

Fork.

Fork.

Spoon.

Knife.

Fork.

Fork.

Fork.

Spoon.

That's the wrong slot.

Concentrate.

Come on, guys.

What are you morons?

Have the chap rub.

- Allow me.

- Wait, hold it.

Save that.

Give me the egg instead.

Drink up, Prescott.

(grunts)

We have all day and all night, gentlemen.

We will get his right.

Fork.

Knife.

Fork.

No, that fell out of the slot.

That's wrong.

Knife.

Fork, nope.

Start over.

Knife.

Fork.

Clumsy, nope.

We start over.

Clear it out.

You guys have been up for 48 hours.

You've come through with flying colors so far.

You get to sleep up here tonight.

(cheering)

get some rest.

You guys deserve it.

Take off your clothes,

relax.

See you guys in the morning.

Oh and hey.

Good job, you guys.

Get everyone together in 45 minutes.

(soft music)

(yelling and pots banging)

Fork.

Spoon.

Fork.

Knife.

Knife.

Fork.

Fork.

Spoon.

He's very good at this.

Spoon.

Spoon.

Spoon.

How many knives?

- Eight.

- Wrong.

Have a piece of liver.

- Wait a second.

- Excuse me?

- I said there's eight knives.

- Yeah, I know what you said.

That's very good.

You care about your brother,

but you were wrong about the count.

Eat it.

- Wait.

If I'm right,

you eat the liver.

- Count the knives.

- You sure?

- Count the knives.

- One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

- What?

- Eight.

- Eat it anyway.

(people chattering)

contestant, we've got a contestant, gentlemen.

Scores.

The scores.

Scores, scores, let's go.

Not gonna make it this year.

Keep on walking, honey.

Oh, here we go.

Here we go.

Here we go.

More leg, honey.

(yelling)

- Shake it if you've got it.

- This is Gamma Sigma Nu house.

It's mostly jocks,

but they're pretty nice guys.

Then, over here across the street is Delta Rho Chi.

It's one of,

excuse me.

- You guys seem to be in my way.

Why don't you cross the street

and double back.

- Well,

we were just giving the pledges a tour of the row.

(yelling)

- Hey Jackson, put 'em down.

- But, you see,

today is the day

that we show our pledges around.

So, maybe you guys better come back tomorrow.

- But--

- No buts.

Tomorrow.

(yelling)

- Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Is there a problem here.

- We better go.

- Hey man.

No problem.

It just isn't your day.

- Well, what day is it?

- It's Saturday.

- Saturday.

It's Saturday.

(yelling)

- Jackson goes down.

Jackson, you wimp.

- You see, no problem.

Let's go.

(yelling)

(soft music)

- Hey.

What do you think you're doing.

Hey.

(upbeat music)

Intruder.

(upbeat music)

- Get him up.

Get him up.

(yelling)

- Hey, get off of him, bastards.

Get off of him.

Back off.

Get off.

- Hey, we want this guy.

- You can't have him.

- Nobody breaks in to our house.

What the hell do you think you were doing?

- None of your business.

- Cindy Wilson's brother.

- Look.

Man, I'm sorry.

I know what you must be feeling.

- You don't know nothing, man.

- Easy.

- Look, look, you got the wrong idea, buddy.

I don't think you know your sister like you think you do.

- Hey, back off.

Man, I am doing you a favor.

You better take off before you get hurt.

- Why don't you just talk to your roomie.

Keep him away from where he doesn't belong,

or he's gonna be answering to 55 guys.

Okay.

- I don't suppose you wanna tell me what's going on.

(soft music)

- I picked up a rumor at another frat

that the Delta Rho's have a set-up

to tape guys getting it on with their--

- Tape guys?

- You know, home movie cameras.

Video tapes.

- Oh, well that seems a little far fetched.

Don't you think?

- These creeps are capable of anything.

I figure if it's true,

I could go to the cops and nail them.

So, I broke in this afternoon.

I tried to grab the thing.

- Very bold, my friend.

- That was pretty stupid.

I don't even think there is a tape.

You know, it's probably just another fraternity legend.

- What about your sister?

What's going on with her?

- I tried to talk her in to staying in school, but

she's just too humiliated.

Can you imagine her having to walk down

Fraternity Row everyday to class?

All she wanted to do was go to college, man.

- [Girls] Phi Nu, Phi Nu, Phi Nu, Phi Nu.

- [Booker] Come on, guys.

These girls wanna party.

- Don't you think we should finish this job

before considering refreshments?

- Bruce?

- This is amazing, Dennis.

Between you and me,

I think you've got a lock

on being elected pledge class president.

- Great.

So, where'd the stereo come from?

- Oh.

Repair job for the guys next door.

- Oh.

So, you work for them?

- Occasionally.

You know, high tech sort of stuff.

- Kevin, let me ask you a question.

Now, I heard a rumor

that they have a room where they can videotape their dates.

Is that true?

- All they've got is a crude peephole.

You know, strictly Porky's time.

- Besides, they're too stupid to run a camera.

Watch this.

(upbeat music)

- Guys, dance.

It's okay.

Come on, come on.

- I'll ask the question one last time.

When was Mr. Benoltson president of the frat?

- From 74 to 75.

- Very good.

Who was my predecessor?

Jack Petri.

- Very good.

An alumni line up is a historic moment

in the time honored tradition of hazing.

As knights were dubbed in medieval times,

so to you will pass from boyhood to manhood.

You carved your own paddle

and hence in being paddled,

your immaturity and evil spirits

will be transferred to the wood.

The wood in turn burns in the fireplace.

Returning it all to smoke and ash.

You the legacy?

- Yes, sir.

Mr. Benoltson.

- Thought so.

He'll do.

Okay, it's really very simple.

You take a step,

you down the drink.

Take the next step,

you down the next drink.

All you gotta do is make it to the top of the ladder, there.

Oh, yeah.

There is one little hitch.

If you fall back even a step.

You gotta start all over again.

(laughter)

- It's no problem.

- Bottoms up.

- Okay.

Okay.

(yelling)

- Come on, Carrie.

(yelling)

- [Man In Green Sweater] Hey, hey, hey, hey.

- No, wait.

Hey, you alright?

- Yeah.

- Hey, listen.

You don't have to do this, man.

- Hey, hey.

Who the hell do you think you are, mister?

Huh?

This is a time honored tradition.

I did it.

He can do it.

You wanna help him out?

Put him over your shoulder

and complete his mission.

(upbeat music)

- Come on.

No, stand.

(yelling)

(clapping)

(yelling)

(clapping)

- Well done.

(groaning)

Oh, you gotta be kidding me.

- You look a little green, Tom.

- Well, green is purely a state of mind, Adam.

- Yeah, well.

I read your report.

You were right to step in when you did.

50 kids have died in hazing incidents.

Mostly alcohol related.

- Is this crap legal or what?

- It's illegal in 30 states.

Every fraternity and sorority has a rule against it.

- That's great.

In the meantime,

I gotta walk around with olive pits in my ears.

- Yeah.

They say hazing builds character.

- Some way to build character.

Last night, they lined us up in the chapter room

according to breast size.

One word out of you, Hanson,

and you're a dead man.

- You know, I heard Delta Rho's got a similar line up.

- I didn't hear that.

- Yeah.

The winners get to wear a fireman's hat.

The loser wears a caboose cap.

- That's disgusting.

- Grace?

How you doing?

- Hey, Michael.

Great party the other night.

- We aim to please.

Have we met before?

- Well, I scored an eight point five

on my way to the library the other day.

- I am sorry.

I had no idea that you were--

- That I was a Kappa Psi?

If you'd have known, I'd have scored a 10 point oh, right?

- You would've gotten my apology,

which I am extending now.

It gets kinda

rowdy on Saturday afternoons after football games.

Can I make this up to you?

Dinner?

Anywhere you choose.

- Anywhere?

- Anywhere.

- The Tour d'Argent

- In Paris?

- You said anywhere.

- I guess I did.

Okay.

It's a date.

I'll see you later.

- Bye.

(soft music)

- Hanson.

Peephole.

- This doesn't look like Paris to me.

I thought we were going out on a date,

and gonna have some fun?

- Why don't we slow this down.

Buy me a drink.

Let me meet the folks.

What kind of guy do you think I am?

- Okay, I'll behave.

I promise.

- Rumor on Sorority Row has it

that you've got a mean break.

- Oh yeah?

You know a lot of girls who shoot pool?

- Just my mom.

- Your mom?

- Yeah, she's a hustler.

- Really?

- Really.

(laughter)

Gotcha.

- Okay.

- Still wanna play?

- What are the stakes?

- I wouldn't bet anything you wouldn't mind losing.

- Well, I'll take my chances.

- I was hoping you would.

- Wait, wait.

Don't you think this is a little fast?

- Well, I think you're the type that can keep up.

- I like to set the pace.

- I thought you were giving me the green light.

- I think you got your colors mixed up.

- Can I offer you a drink?

- I don't drink.

- [McCarter] Orange juice?

- [Hoffs] That I drink.

- Gentlemen.

- Hi.

- This is your final haze.

Pass this test and you're in.

- Let's go, guys, come on, come on.

Let's go, move it.

Almost there.

Keep going, keep going.

Come on, come on.

Let's go, girls.

Turn left, turn left.

Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Keep going, keep going.

Let's move it, move it, move it.

- Anytime you're ready, Steve.

- Come on, Prescott.

Come on.

- Please don't make me do this.

I can't, I can't, no.

(cheering)

(cheering)

- Where is he?

He's not coming up.

Should we do something?

- Come on.

(suspenseful music)

- Stand back.

Get back, man.

Go call an ambulance.

You wanna get an ambulance?

- No pulse.

(suspenseful music)

(coughing)

- Are you okay, Carrie.

Is he okay?

- Yeah, yeah.

I'm fine.

I'm fine.

- Way to go, Prescott.

Cancel the ambulance.

He's okay.

Alright, alright.

We got a couple of heroes here, huh?

Let's get these gentlemen cleaned up

and in to Delta Rho.

- (Chanting) Delta Rho, Delta Rho, Delta Rho,

Delta Rho, Delta Rho, Delta Rho,

Delta Rho, Delta Rho, Delta Rho,

Delta Rho, Delta Rho, Delta Rho,

Delta Rho, Delta Rho, Delta Rho.

- Carrie Morton.

- Thank you.

- Harry Tanaka.

Thomas Prescott.

- Thanks, man.

- You've all taken an oath, gentlemen,

and been sworn to secrecy.

You are now part of the brotherhood of Delta Rho Chi.

Honor, trust, and friendship.

Things now privy, never to be shared with an outsider.

I wanna welcome all of you.

The pledge class of 1988,

as you are now one of us.

Congratulations.

(clapping)

what do you say we party, huh?

(cheering)

This is the pledge class of 1961.

This was taken inside the Denver Mint.

- How did they get in there?

That's kind of a long story.

Do you remember reading about the

mistresses of the house

in your pledge books?

- Yeah.

- This is them.

- How did they get in that position?

- That's an even longer story.

(woman screaming)

- Michael, is that the tape I think it is?

- Yeah.

- (Chanting) Delta Rho, Delta Rho, Delta Rho,

Delta Rho, Delta Rho, Delta Rho,

Delta Rho, Delta Rho, Delta Rho,

Delta Rho, Delta Rho, Delta Rho.

- I thought we agreed to destroy that thing.

- Come on.

It's a piece of Delta Rho history.

It'd be a crime to destroy something like that.

- [Woman On Tape] Stop it, no.

- Excuse me.

When was this?

- Big party,

right before school started.

Major bash.

This girl took on three of us.

- You rape her?

- No, no, she loved it.

- [Woman On Tape] No, no.

- Looks like she's saying no.

- Look at the way she's dressed.

Look at what she's wearing.

She wanted it.

- How do you know what she wants, man?

- Let me tell you something about women.

Alright?

When they say no,

they mean yes.

- You know what.

It looks to me like she's saying no.

I mean, that doesn't sound like yes, right?

See, that girl is saying no.

- What is this?

You're an active for five minutes

and you're giving me a lecture.

- This is wrong.

- You don't know what you're talking about.

- Just like Carrie.

- He almost died the other night

because you guys don't know where to draw the line.

- Yeah, but

I didn't die, guys.

- That's right.

Because his brothers were there to save him.

- Yeah.

- Your brothers didn't save you, Carrie.

Your brothers didn't move.

- You were saved by two cops.

- You're under arrest for the rape of Cindy Wilson.

How's that?

- The university's closed down Delta Rho house.

Chapter's gonna be dissolved by the national.

Stevenson and McCarter will probably go to jail.

That is, of course,

if you testify.

- Hey, whoa.

Whoa, one step at a time.

I just got her to agree to re-enroll.

- It's very important.

The tape is evidence,

but we need your testimony to put these guys away.

- I thought about it and

I wanna testify.

- Good.

That's really good.

It's not gonna be easy.

These lawyers are gonna be real rough on you.

- I know.

- The most important thing is that you're back.

- Well, he's right.

It takes a lot of courage to come back here.

- Yeah, I guess it does.

- Here, here, here, got it.

What are you guys doing here?

- Hi, Dennis.

We're just working out.

You know,

cranking a little iron.

- What for?

- We wanna improve our images.

A guy has to be a stud

to be respected.

We're gonna be like them.

- Why would you want to be like those meatheads?

- 'Cause it's the guys with the muscles

that have all the fun.

- That's bull.

- Dennis,

you're the only Phi Nu

that ever brought a beautiful woman in to the house.

- Kevin, I don't believe that.

- Well, believe it.

Come on, Dennis.

Look at us.

We're geeks.

We'll never have anything except the other geeks.

- You're wrong.

You guys are gonna have the best of everything.

In a couple years,

these grunts will be fat ex-jocks

spending all their time talking about the good old days.

Kevin, you guys will be in your prime.

Enjoying the good life.

All those girls who think these slobs are so great

are gonna become women.

Wanna appreciate guys with brains and a little class.

- Really?

- Really.

Come on.

Let's go grab a beer.

(upbeat music)

Ralphie, put the weights down.

They're no good for you.

- Wait a minute.

What about you, Dennis?

You lift weights.

- I'm the exception.

(upbeat music)

(soft music)

(upbeat music)

(upbeat music)