Some fraternity members drank punch spiked with the drug in order to purposely black out. Then they took it to enhance a night of drinking. Students started taking it as a way to mitigate their hangovers. Drawn from multiple first-person accounts, his description of Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s 2012 Mountain Weekend party at Tugaloo State Park in Georgia is so unhinged, it ends with a Hummer in the lake and every stick of furniture from eight cabins burned in a fire.Ī contributing factor to the debauchery on campus was the sudden availability of Xanax. I have no idea what constitutes “partying” among college students today, but, according to Marshall’s account, during this time at the College of Charleston (and at a lot of other schools, too, apparently) it sounds deranged. Where Marshall really breaks ground, though, is his exposure of the volume of drug and alcohol abuse that fueled the fraternities’ social gatherings. The first part of the book delves deep into the secret world of fraternities - the rivalry between orders, the rushing, the hazing, hell week. Schmidt eventually got kicked out of school for bad grades but remained an honorary member of Kappa Alpha as he divided his time between Charleston and Atlanta, where his VIP valet gig at Tongue & Groove nightclub and illicit drug sales initiated him into Atlanta’s rap scene. Liljeberg was an Eagle Scout, a National Honors scholar and would become president of their Kappa Alpha chapter. The two instantly bonded over their shared affinity for marijuana and Greek life, although they couldn’t have been more different. The first friend he made was Rob Liljeberg, who recruited him to join Kappa Alpha fraternity. A rambunctious kid who sold a little weed in high school, he arrived at the College of Charleston as a freshman in 2014.
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