‘Goat’ is a bold, shocking dramatization of fraternity hazing
Ben Schnetzer and Nick Jonas in ”Goat.” Courtesy of Paramount Pictures by Ryan Rojas/www.cinemacy.com If you were in a fraternity or sorority in college, you’ll most likely agree: being in Greek life offers young adults the positive experience of creating lifelong bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood with their fellow students by way of sharing the same character-building and ethics-shaping experiences. However, the darker and more dangerous sides of frat and sorority life – involving what happens when pledges and members, still in their latter-formative years and shaping their self identities by seeking acceptance amongst their peers – are met with the new normal pressures of raucous partying that is so ingrained in Greek life. This can create inadvertent bonding experiences by testing their members by way of stressful, sometimes traumatic events, experiences that former fraternity-rusher Brad Lands had in real life and documented in a memoir. In “Goat: A Memoir,” Lands chronicles his own experience of seeking safety in brotherhood by rushing Clemson University’s Kappa Sigma chapter (after transferring when he was brutally jumped and assaulted in an unrelated incident at his…
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