Will Ferrell Thinks Frats Are So Over (Or Should Be)
They've been getting lots of bad press lately...
Forget apologies, reprimands, suspensions, and full-blown corporate-style PR responses — Will Ferrell thinks it’s time for fraternities to just call it quits.
At least that seems to be the general message he sent during a recent fan-led interview published in the New York Times. After being asked about college fraternities, the actor stated:
“The incident in Oklahoma, that is a real argument for getting rid of the system altogether, in my opinion, even having been through a fraternity,”
When a fan subsequently asked Ferrell for examples of his positive experiences in Delta Tau Delta (the fraternity to which the actor pledged during his time at the University of Southern California), Ferrell responded with a less than rosy outlook:
“[W]hen you break it down, it really is about creating cliques and clubs and being exclusionary…Fraternities were started as academic societies that were supposed to have a philanthropic arm to them.
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