Tufts OTR: Ledge Parties: True or False?

Ledge Parties: True or False?

Posted by The Merry Widow 12/03/2007 4:07 PM
Category: Tags: frats, ledge parties, new york times, delta upsilon

Yesterday's Modern Love column in the New York Times contained a particularly horrifying anecdote of Greek life:

"Ledge parties, for those of you who didn’t attend party-school universities, featured fraternity boys luring their unsuspecting companions to a lair of choice, where they engineered some semblance of sex for the viewing enjoyment of their voyeuristic brethren, who watched from the window’s ledge...Ledge parties weren’t merely tolerated in the fraternities — they were rewarded with knowing winks and backslaps. But my date had crossed a line: Apparently the fraternal code of ethics only approved of the performances when the girls were conscious (albeit still unaware they were being watched)."

I've heard the jokes about rodeos, and Lord knows we've made fun of Greeks before on this site, but seriously, does this actually happen? (And if it does, is it always at DU?)