I am writing to make students aware of a major social epidemic on this campus Š Inflated Egotistical Fraternity Boys. I have affectionately named this disease IEFB. This past weekend, I realized the extent to which this disease has infected the campus.

Last Friday night a group of girls walked up to one of the fraternities and perfunctorily stood in line with the droves of others awaiting one of the brothers' signals to usher them in. An IEFB was working the door this evening and, after seeing this long line of girls, he mistakenly made the internal attribution, "It must be my great looks and extraordinary personality that is bringing these girls in and keeps them coming back."

News flash: the social scene at this school is, um Š how should we say, limited? If you want to go out and cut loose, the options are the fraternities or Š wait, the fraternities. It is not anything about one specific guy that these girls are lining up for. We definitely aren't thinking how great that beer breath is going to smell!

As these girls approached the front of the line, the IEFB decided that it was time for him to assert his "superior" position on this campus by letting only those girls in who lived up to his perfect status. So, the IEFB, in Studio 54 manner, selected the attractive girls from the group who passed his cut and allowed them into the house.

But what was incredibly tactful and thoughtful of this particular IEFB was that he wanted to alert the girls who didn't make it as to why they couldn't enter. The explanation was that they should know that fat girls were not allowed into his fraternity! The pomposity of this IEFB is beyond the normal asinine level. I would go as far as to say that his one could be termed INGSKA -- In Need of a Good Swift Kick in the Ass!

For this one person to be allowed to use his warped sense of reality to deflate and completely humiliate others is disgusting. As if eating disorders are not a big enough problem by themselves. We do not need anything else to augment this problem.

What if girls started lining the IEFBs up and made them go through the gauntlet that we experience every weekend? I have a hunch that those egos would not be floating so high. Most likely, we would find a majority of them faced with the harsh reality that they are not anything special outside of our William and Mary bubble. Our environment here is not anything close to the way things actually are, and once we leave, the IEFBs are going to be just average Joes.

In the working world, they are not going to be able to line up at the office and choose which colleges are good enough to be working with them. When the IEFBs are removed from their safe havens, I have a feeling that there are guys who are more logical, clear-headed, somewhat humanistic and would never think to treat another person in this manner. But the fact is, they are not taken out of this environment often enough and the behavior is fostered and becomes acceptable.

My challenge to the IEFBs: realize where you are. We are at William and Mary in historical Williamsburg. This is not some upscale NYC club where people pay upwards of $20 a night to experience the posh atmosphere. These are sweaty, gross fraternity houses that leave you with beer stains and frat floor juice all over your clothing.

Girls, do not allow the IEFBs to continue this abominable behavior. If you see this happening or hear about it, do not ignore it. Challenge it! The more we remain apathetic and unconcerned since we are still being let into the parties, the more this breeds the IEFB behavior. Who knows when you will be the next victim of an IEFB's cut?

I will not be returning to the fraternity where this happened. That type of person is not one with whom I would ever want to associate nor let his behavior be excused. Maybe my personal boycott will not have an effect, but it is a start to the cessation of all IEFBs. If more girls take action and assert themselves, the IEFB race could be suffocated and depleted.

I do not want this to seem like some feminist diatribe, claiming that all fraternity guys are detestable and that I hate the fraternity scene. No, I must admit that I enjoy going out and having a great time dancing. Many of my good friends are in fraternities and they are wonderful people. In fact, probably 90 percent of the members of each house would be shocked and upset by this IEFB behavior; however, it is those few who spoil the experience.

So, next weekend, around 9 p.m., before the fraternities start raring to go, I think that all the guys in each house should come and line up outside. Then the girls will come and pick out the best-looking, ideally sculpted, Herculean males who will be allowed to be present at the parties that evening. Heaven forbid that we have to go to a house where there might be less-than-perfect looking people there. What a great night it will be -- a utopia at the fraternities!

Shanley Pinchotti is a guest columnist. Her views do not necessarily represent those of The Flat Hat.