February 12, 1999

Film Promoted as Inside Look at Hazing Is Attacked for Including Staged Scenes

By LEO REISBERG

Greek leaders attack 'Frat House,' but the documentary's filmmakers say it portrays reality

A lanky young man sits trapped inside a dog cage. Several college students browbeat him and douse him with beer, ketchup, cigarette ashes, and tobacco-laden spit. One of them threatens to torch the prisoner by aiming an aerosol spray through a cigarette-lighter flame.

"Are you crying right now?" the caged man is

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