Johnny Lechner

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]

Johnny Lechner

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 The Bob and Tom Show, 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.