By Matthew Wood

It’s another good day to be Rusty. Our favorite Kappat Tau pledge not only saves the Kappa house’s epic “Vesuvius” party, but he also meets a hot (well, reasonably hot) Zeta pledge and even gets a little hot make-out action in the end.

Unfortunately, it’s a bad day to be Casey. Rusty’s big sis gets booted from the big dinner honoring beau Evan’s parents – and for that conniving bitch Rebecca Logan, no less! – and then suffers the ultimate embarrassment after getting drunk and crashing the party in a coconut bikini. That’s so not classy.
But perhaps the biggest embarrassment is that she’s even with that jerk at all. They of course make up in the end, but you know he’s got that scumbag look. You can see it in his eyes. I’ve seen it in the eyes of others. Hell, I’ve even had the look myself. And let me tell you, he’s got that look.

We’re building up to the eventual confrontation of Casey’s real feelings for Cappie, the Kappa president and her “first time” as a freshman. But she continues to let her social climbing get in the way. It’s not that Evan is too good for her. It’s just that he’s, well, a snob.

Cappie, on the other hand, is the perfect complement for her, and one heckuva role model for impressionable young Rusty. And he’s prepared for any situation, no more evident than when he calls for his “Cougar sack” – complete with Old Spice Ultra and madras jacket -- in order to sweet-talk Gladys down at the events office lady into a party permit. Now that’s something they don’t teach you in the Boy Scouts.

Not that Rusty needs a whole lot of help. After finally realizing the chatty Jen K. was the one who sent her a “Zeta crush” from a secret admirer, he gets some serious face sucking in before the ABC Family censors could put the smack down. Then he becomes a Kappa “legend” (according to Cappie) by not only making the volcano work, but by using the campus weather machine to inadvertently suck up all the moisture from the party and make it “rain beer.”
Legendary? Well, I don’t know about that, but you could definitely have a worse day.

(In other subplots, the whole gay black hockey star Calvin thing is getting out of hand, as he goes on a pseudo-date with the Kappa dude, but is of course scared to confront his feelings. But since this storyline is so lame, I’m keeping it at the end of the review … and in parentheses … and that’s all I have to say about that.)