PCU

The fallacy that I believe that identifies with the film PCU would have to be Ad Hominem, Ad Hominem, is a attack on one's characters rather than an attack on the actual ideas of the person. The way that each of the groups in the film were labeled and stereotyped clearly shows this. For example, the Fraternity in the film , The Pitts, were stereotyped as lazy bums that always party and stirred up trouble among the campus. In actuality most fraternities are not like this, some are very positive. The "Activist students", were portrayed as radical and forceful with there beliefs, when in normal circumstances they are not as forceful to promote there beliefs to others.The main character uses the stereotypical perception of the characters as a basis to determine whether he wants to attend PCU. Originally he thought that PCU was prestigious prep school until he learned otherwise.