Party's over for frat after ski-resort rampage - $400,000 in damages

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/18/partys-frat-ski-resort-rampage/24943201/

The University of Michigan's Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity has been permanently disbanded by its parent organization for not only wrecking a northern Michigan resort but also for not stepping up and facing the music.

Michigan is still waiting for information from the police on individuals who might have been involved. No disciplinary proceedings have been started against any individuals, Fitzgerald said.

About 120 University of Michigan students, members of Sigma Alpha Mu and women from its sister sorority, Sigma Delta Tau, had gathered at Treetops Resort in Gaylord in January. There was damage to 45 rooms, and students destroyed ceiling tiles and exit signs, broke furniture and doors and urinated on carpeting, pictures showed.

Damage estimates have climbed to more than $400,000.

[NuclearDem]

1. Holy hell!

[geek tragedy]

2. it looks like a construction scene, or a war zone nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Nice job, assholes. Our future hinges on the likes of you?

How about some jail time and full restitution.

Fuck them.

[NYC_SKP]

6. They come from powerful families and will be the captains of industry.

This is not by any means the first generation of this type, and it helps explain why our institutions are so fucked up (wall street, corporate corruption, etc.).

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Why-Harvard-Can-No-Longer-3044917.S.119568782

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. Yeah, destroying things thoroughly takes a lot of practice.

This is like Junior Acheivement compared to what they'll do when they step into the real world.

[YarnAddict]

4. There was also another resort that suffered significant damage the same weekend,

although by different frats.

It's still possible that there will be some criminal charges filed.

And I really hope that the individuals and their families will be on the hook for the entire cost of the damages, including lost business. This is inexcusable.

[KittyWampus]

5. How would this not result in criminal charges?

[Dont call me Shirley]

7. Hell bent on destruction. Fun. Fun. Fun.

[salin]

8. what in the world were they doing in that hallway?

It looks like demolition work. And not a single student thought to give the hotel the head's up that they should call the police to stop the wreckage that was happening? (Or call the police themselves?)

[KittyWampus]

11. drop ceiling tiles are really brittle. Looks like they just went down hall with bat or something

whacking at them. They'd crumble easily.

[salin]

14. true per the brittle, but yes - it looks like intentional whacking was involved.

And no one thought it an issue enough to try to stop it when the ceiling was being destroyed.

I would think the parents would be aghast. Though I am imagine that the explanations told by their individual children are always exculpatory.

[trumad]

9. Reincarnation of Joe Walsh.

[KittyWampus]

10. Bad enough the vandals did this but they didn't take any responsibility-

Reasons cited by national officials for pulling the UM fraternity's charter include members' lack of cooperation in identifying its members involved in the destruction; the failure of those responsible to come forward; and members' failure to stop the damage. The incident, which occurred over the weekend of Jan. 16-18 at Treetops Resort in Gaylord, resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and attracted national attention.

"Sigma Alpha Mu's values and standards of conduct were violated by the actions of those members whose behavior was abhorrent," national Sigma Alpha Mu executives said in a statement. "It is regrettable that these vandals, as well as the officers of the chapter, decided that avoiding personal accountability and/or university sanctions took priority over the welfare of the entire chapter ... Sigma Alpha Mu worked in cooperation with university officials and regretfully agreed with their request to close the chapter."

[jwirr]

25. Their sister group was also there - did they get censored? They could have called the police also.

[magical thyme]

12. their parents must be so very proud...

more likely, they'll be out there insisting that their little snook'ems couldn't possibly have been part of this and it must have been somebody else's little snook'ems.

And then when video surfaces showing their little snook'ems hard at it, they'll plead "affluenza."

[salin]

15. I would bet that there are plenty of videos that were taken

at the time.

[magical thyme]

17. doubtless. unfortunately, probably by the perpetrators themselves

so they'll be trying to hide them now. Hopefully some got posted while drunk and will be found.

[deutsey]

13. I think they took Animal House's "We can do whatever we want" ethos too literally n/t

[malaise]

16. Entitled little scumbags

Their careers should be destroyed the way their establishment parents destroy the children of the poor for a ganja spliff.

[catnhatnh]

24. THIS exactly! N/T

[Jenny Red Eye]

19. Unreal. That seriously looks like a professional demolition crew went through there.

Uncontrolled feeling of entitlement at its finest.

[Jenny Red Eye]

20. Oh, just watched the video. A fair solution...PRISON TIME AND RESTITUTION.

[global1]

21. Future Repugs....nt

[Lancero]

22. SAM was rightly disbanded...

Yet SDT was allowed to remain, despite them playing apart in it as well.

Both groups should have been disbanded for their parts in this.

[MisterP]

23. sweet Moses, it looks like the morning after "The Shining"

[Runningdawg]

26. Thank goodness

the students weren't minorities otherwise we would be reading about a riot that had to be stopped with deadly force.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

27. The law firm I work for is suing a sorority for a similar episode

They trashed a reception hall, and among other damage managed to break several sinks off the wall, allegedly while urinating in them.