<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3cRUn5_1H11thhB00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3cRUn5_1H11thhB00" width="1160" height="649" ></figure>A new documentary telling the stories of Hillsdale Greek life over the last 70 years will debut at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 in Lane 124. The documentary is a showcase of fraternity life at Hillsdale over the years, according to Buddy Moorehouse, a lecturer in journalism and documentary filmmaker.“We’re interviewing some graduates and former frat guys,” Moorehouse said. “The idea is to give a feel for what campus life and what Greek life was like back then, and we illustrate it through telling some stories, an anthology.” “Frat: Stories of Brotherhood at Hillsdale College” is the final project of four students in Moorehouse’s Documentary and Filmmaking class. The film will hone in on Hillsdale’s recent history through the lens of fraternities, according to Moorehouse. “I think that fraternity life in many places has been looked on negatively, so it’s cool to look back at what seemed to be the golden age of a sort in frat life here at Hillsdale,” said sophomore William Davis, who is in Moorehouse’s class. “One of the guys we interviewed talked about how his time as a frat guy was the best time of his life in many ways.” Davis noted how the alumni truly had mentorship in their fraternity. “He looked a lot to the older brothers in his fraternity house, and one of the only ways he was able to succeed through college was through fellowship and relationships he found there,” Davis said. “They had a lot of fun but also were serious in a lot of ways.” The class spoke to members from various fraternities from the ’60s through the ’90s. “We just interviewed a couple of guys who were Tau Kappa Epsilon here in the ’70s,” said Davis. “They had some really great stories.”Moorehouse said one of the story’s highlights is when a future U.S. president visited Hillsdale’s TKE chapter in 1977, before the chapter was officially disbanded at the college in 1995. “We cover the story of when Ronald Reagan came to visit his fraternity on campus,” Moorehouse said. Reagan was previously the president of the TKE chapter at Eureka College. The documentary’s intended audience is past and current students alike, according to Davis.“Students should go because it’s going to be super entertaining, but also a lot of past fraternity brothers here continue to donate and serve the college and their time here is something worth exploring and appreciating,” Davis said. The film premiere promises to be a fun and enlightening experience for attendees, according to Moorehouse. “We’re looking to appeal to alumni, but I think that it’s good for students to have an appreciation of where Hillsdale was in the past and how some of the things that led to the school being the way it is today,” Moorehouse said.</div></body>

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A new documentary telling the stories of Hillsdale Greek life over the last 70 years will debut at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 in Lane 124. The documentary is a showcase of fraternity life at Hillsdale over the years, according to Buddy Moorehouse, a lecturer in journalism and documentary filmmaker. “We’re...

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A new documentary telling the stories of Hillsdale Greek life over the last 70 years will debut at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 in Lane 124. The documentary is a showcas

Students to debut documentary on Hillsdale frats

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