“Socially, they are not that far apart, but Wes has more of a reputation as a party-hard school, for a few reasons. One, because despite the fact that a tiny percentage of student affiliate with the remaining frat, it does still have some frat culture and a history of resistance to the admin’s efforts to get rid of frats. Midd has none. Second, those frats have been the scene of numerous nationally reported incidents of drug overdoses and date rapes. I’m not sure that the rate of either is actually higher at Wes than Midd or its peers, but Wes is the one that ends up with long exposes in national publications about their problem.”
Part of the reason these exceptionally rare events at Wesleyan received the attention they did was that of all the NESCAC schools it probably has the LEAST entrenched rape culture. At Middlebury or Amherst it would likely be swept under the rug.