Research Blog 8

I do not think my topic has only one chief example to illustrate the frame.  There are countless numbers of examples that I will be able to use to show how alcohol helps or encourages men to try and achieve a sense of manliness.  One example that I found useful was the two instances at Dartmouth University.  The first case is when a bunch of fraternity members decided they wanted to beat up a kid just because they did not like him.  This led to them beating him to death.  On top of that, all of the fraternity members admitted they were intoxicated one way or another.  The other example is when Dartmouth first allowed women on campus.  New members (pledges) got drunk on their first night as pledges and stormed the dorms of the new women.  These pledges left letters with multiple forms of degradation and profanity.  These are just a few of the good examples that help support the masculinity theory.  Some details that might be useful to me would be actual statistics of, lets say, the amount of fraternity members that drink compared to non-fraternity members.  Also, the ratio of Greek to non-Greek members that drink or binge drink on the weekends.