On one hand, people who selected schools due to greek life generally would become disproportionately irate when colleges started clamping down on excess partying. Also, it caused the scene to become more polarizing. When you think about it, when the site first reached prominence, it definitely did cause more people to not only to become more curious greek life, but to more seriously factor in the greek scene when selecting colleges. In my lifetime, I believe we will see the complete demise of the system. I have heard the argument that the proliferation of TFM indirectly contributed to the now hopelessly unrecoverable reputation of greek life as a whole. Using the word coed makes me feel old, but it's a label I'm willing to accept in proclaiming that the website is not winning any awards for the quality of writing. Through and through, it's garbage supported by daily features of hot coeds. I read the TFM website for at least a year before college, and occasionally access it even now. The connotation that greek life now carries with it ensures that this book and this brand of humor will be remembered as a footnote. At the time, it seemed like the next logical step for the evolution of mainstream college humor, but in retrospect that's just a silly thing to say. I read this in an afternoon during my freshman year of college. If you are looking to join a fraternity then you should read it if you are not looking to join then you shouldn’t read this book. The book did teach me a lot on what I am should be getting prepared for when I go to college and start rushing at a fraternity. The rest of the book besides the hazing was very detailed and a good read. However, the book just made me feel like it wasn’t based off true events even if it happened in the past. Knowing my brother he would not be a part of something that is cruel and harsh to the body, so I don’t believe as much. My older brother is a part of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and as I read I know for a fact that most of the stuff that happens in the book doesn’t happen in real life because of the ‘zero tolerance for hazing’ policy. The author did more about how life got better for the pledges as they were officially apart of the fraternity and had the time of their lives. As I read all of the hazing and torture that was used on the pledges I felt a sadness and pain from the tone the author used for the readers expense. Bows and toes was a hazing technique they used to punish a ‘pledge’ when he was doing something wrong, and was very painful. Throughout the stories I read of the hazing really got me at some points in the story as I felt sad, and scared for what will happen to the characters, "Since your pledge brother here is missing a chromosome, everyone take off your jackets and get on bows and toes NOW!" (Pg. The author used tone to show how the characters were feeling throughout the book, and through all of the events. The moral of the story is that the strong will stay and the weak will go. Living in the house brought a whole new meaning to being an Alpha, having fun and doing whatever they want for the last few years of college. Although, it was painful, stressful, and not fun what's so ever, they managed to get through it within twelve weeks. They went through many different obstacles of hazing and harsh treatment from other house members that had already been through it all. Townes, and his friends are going to college for the first time, and the first night they are kidnapped by some girls that took them to the alpha house where their lives changed. It focuses on teaching pledges how to be initiated in a fraternity, and how to live they life throughout their college lives. Bolen's Total Frat Move is a teaching book for those who want to join a fraternity.
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