"I was surprised by how often there was a competition to see who could be the most intense, or the most debaucherous, or the most outlandish person," the professor said.
Speaking to INSIDER, Moisey recalled one particularly "unsettling" incident, as seen in the photo above. According to the photographer, the image was captured during the "middle of a celebration of wildness" and shows the moment "a dog is having a punch thrown at it."
The dog — a house pet that was officially adopted by one of the fraternity's members — is pictured several times throughout "The American Fraternity." In one photo, the dog is seen licking up vomit ("Someone had had far, far, far too much to drink," Moisey told us). In another, the dog looks into the camera while tearing apart a carton of beer.
The photographer came to see the dog as "the perfect metaphor for both the world outside [the fraternity] and the brothers themselves."
"The dog just kind of didn't have a master," Moisey said. "It didn't really know what to do. It wasn't trained. It didn't have any rules or structure. Which was exactly the environment these guys were growing up in."
He continued: "[The fraternity brothers] came to college and decided to raise each other. You could read the results of that on the dog, which was not particularly well-behaved."
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