Popular Culture
In Season 1, Episode 9 of the television show Mad Men the character Harry Crane is asked by fellow advertising executive Pete Campbell whether he was in a fraternity and answers "Alpha Delta Phi. Also known as cutups." Pete appears to have been in a different fraternity, likely at Dartmouth College. In Season 3, Episode 3, Paul Kinsey is seen using Harry's paddle to play cricket.
(Source: The Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, archived from the original on 12 May 2008, http://www.alphadeltaphi.org/, retrieved 2008-05-28)
National Lampoon's Animal House was co-written by Chris Miller and Doug Kenney. Miller based his writings on his own fraternity experiences with Alpha Delta Phi's Dartmouth Chapter. Miller was considered National Lampoon's fraternity life expert and even the movie's main character Larry Kroger shared Miller's own pledge name, i.e. Pinto. The characters of Larry Kroger and Mandy Pepperidge appear to have originated with Kenney.
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