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John A. "Johnny" Lechner^[1] is an American film and television actor best known who appeared as Alan Reese on the Showtime television series Girls of Sunset Place (2012)^{[citation needed]} and as Greg "Fossil" Karanowski in the movie Fraternity House (2008).^[2] He is also known for being a perpetual student at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, having studied there from 1995 until 2010.^[3]

Academic career

Lechner was born in Fort Hood, Texas, but grew up in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. Lechner graduated from Waukesha North High School in 1994.^{[citation needed]}

Lechner did not graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2006,^[4] 2007,^[5] 2008,^[6] or 2009,^[7] despite having enough credits to graduate with nine majors and five minors.^[8] Lechner announced that he had transferred to a different college in California in 2010.^[9]

At Whitewater, Lechner won a campus "Big Man on Campus" beauty pageant,^[3] studied abroad in, "Paris, London, Amsterdam, Rome, Florence, Venice and Switzerland," and South Africa.^[10]^[11] He appeared on Late Show with David Letterman and Good Morning America,^[12] was named one of People's "Hot Bachelors",^[13] ran for^[3] student body president,^[12] and appeared in two films, including Minor League: A Football Story^[11] and a starring role in Fraternity House.^[11]^[14]

The "Johnny Lechner rule"

According to Lechner, the Wisconsin Board of Regents instituted a "Johnny Lechner rule"^[4]^[3]^[12] requiring long-term students to pay twice the standard in-state tuition rate.

References

^ "Lechner, John A" University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
^ Prizevoits, Antonijs (2009-08-02). "Fraternity House". Apple TV. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Erickson, Doug. "The Real World Can Wait" Wisconsin State Journal, 7 April 2005.
^ ^a ^b Maternowski, Kate. "Lechner aims to graduate, finally" The Badger Herald, 20 April 2006.
^ Smith, Susan Lampert. "AN OLD STORY GETS A LITTLE OLDER" Wisconsin State Journal, 20 May 2007.
^ "Longtime UW-W student plans one more year Archived 2007-05-23 at the Wayback Machine" The Janesville Gazette, 16 May 2007.
^ "Durhams, Sharif. A cap and gown for UW-Whitewater's perpetual student?" Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2009.
^ "Johnny Lechner - College Student since 1994". Archived from the original on 15 March 2010. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
^ "May 15th 2010". 2010-05-15. Archived from the original on 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
^ "Career Student Up for 13th Year" The Associated Press, 11 May 2006.
^ ^a ^b ^c Welch, Chris. "HE'S MAKING MOVIES, BUT DON'T COUNT ON A 'GRADUATE' REMAKE" Wisconsin State Journal, 9 August 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c Dillon, Sam. "For One Student, a College Career Becomes a Career." The New York Times, 10 November 2005.
^ "They Really, Really Need a Woman" People, 26 June 2006.
^ Fraternity House at IMDb

External links

Johnny Lechner at IMDb

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