![]() The Pit is getting evicted because the racist preppie kid and the university president hate them. Randomly, Joss Whedon was in The Society in the mid-80’s… and has been accused of “fratboy-ish” ways in the 2020’s. (I saw The Spin Doctors there, who were terrible, just before the height of their success.) Eclectic was always in trouble with the student body for their “fratboy-ish” ways. Back when I’d visit, that’s where the parties were and since there were so many impossibly wealthy students with connections, they’d pull in national bands for random Saturday parties. I was a pariah.Įclectic is the oldest “fraternity” as Wesleyan, but it’s no longer a frat frat. And there I was… a tall, white, straight, male who attended the – gasp! – state university. It was surreal, absurd, and completely lacked self-awareness. I got to experience it every couple of weekends during that time. Wesleyan and other liberal arts colleges and universities were way, way ahead of the PC curve. It’s funny to hear people complaining about “political correctness” these days, knowing what it was here in 1991. The writers of this movie, Adam Leff and Zak Penn, graduated from Wesleyan in 1990 and yes, PCU is about Wesleyan during that time. We lasted as a couple into our sophomore year and since she is super smart and was an exemplary student, she had no time to ever visit me in Storrs. My high school girlfriend went to Wesleyan at the same time. Why? Because I sort of lived through everything in PCU. Now, that’s not to say this is a good movie.
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