Three Michigan Fraternities Wreak Havoc On Ski Resorts, Cause More Than $50,000 In Damage
At this point, it should be universally understood that your chapter will not receive its security deposit back after any fraternity function. Factor it into the venue’s cost and get your money’s worth in drunken debauchery. Just remember roughly what that number is and try not to exceed it tenfold like three fraternities from the University of Michigan did over the weekend.
From MLive:
Sigma Alpha Mu, the only fraternity named in the report, stayed at Treetops Resorts in Gaylord last weekend. The resort’s general manager Barry Owens told the local news station that police had to escort the students out after they caused as much as $50,000 worth in damages. A video showed damaged walls and ripped-down ceiling tiles throughout the hotel.
Two other fraternities stayed at Boyne Highlands and are alleged to have caused significant damage in up to 12 private condos throughout the resort. Boyne general manager Mike Chumbler told the station they assessed a “significant” fee as the groups checked out, before he knew the extent of repairs that would be necessary.
Every chapter has one. Some brother got set up with his formal date and she’s not really feeling it. His response is to drink himself into the proverbial bull in a china shop and start Superman-punching ceiling tiles, swinging from chandeliers, and putting his head through some walls. None of the brothers stop him because they’re all too smashed to give a shit. The next morning, the hallway looks like post-apocalyptic Detroit and the only thing they can do is laugh when they think about the resort’s reaction.
Seriously, hotels go out of their way to bone you with additional costs. Leave three beer cans on the nightstand and they’ll pop you with a $250 cleaning charge. Used condom on the floor? That’s $750 for steam cleaning. You were too loud and the hotel made the idiotic decision to put other guest on the same floor as you? A few grand in noise fees. More than $50,000 in the deluded hotel world is completely plausible to me after watching that video.
On the other hand, it looked like a hell of a time. Can you really put a price on an unforgettable college experience?.
[via MLive]
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Guess they took “Hitting the slopes” a little too metaphorically.
11 years ago at 1:47 pm[…] H/T: TotalFratMove […]
11 years ago at 2:17 pmThe two other fraternities were Fiji and Pike. All three are currenty getting slammed on our campus, as they should be. Fuckin dumbasses
11 years ago at 2:18 pmPike and Chi Psi actually
11 years ago at 10:52 pmHaha that’s awesome. The first formal I went on freshman year we knocked a sprinkler head off throwing the football in the hallway and the whole damn place flooded. What made it worse was it was right outside our room. When my room mate and I awoke from our blackout to find that, and of course the culprits fled the scene of the crime we spent about 20 minutes spiraling past terrified assuming we had actually done it in our blacked out state and were at a total loss of how to navigate those waters (see what I did there?) without totally being fucked. An alumnus’ wife was a lawyer (and smoking hot) and somehow saved the day. All told we flooded the firs two floors of the hotel but the only real dilemma I personally ran into was finishing out a brought my tux with no shirt… So I went shirtless.
11 years ago at 3:36 pmHope there’s like a statute of limitations on this.
11 years ago at 3:38 pmWe get it, guy. You like to party
11 years ago at 3:54 pmMost guys take a date (girl) to formal and pass out with her, but if you and your roommate are really close…….
11 years ago at 3:58 pm“Can you really put a price on an unforgettable college experience?”
Yeah, looks like it’s in the neighborhood of 50k.
11 years ago at 3:45 pmWord on campus is that Sig Ep was one of the unnamed fraternities. They were posting a ton of shit about it and with getting in trouble for hazing in the fall they’re fucked
11 years ago at 4:13 pmPost-apocalyptic Detroit sounds like the scariest thing ever.
11 years ago at 4:54 pmI’ve pissed numerous hotel mattresses and have yet to be charged a cleanup fee.
11 years ago at 7:23 pmNo it’s cool guys. They have Jim Harbaugh as a coach.
11 years ago at 10:04 pmThe best part is that these jagoffs have a house GPA of 3.5 and have won our (Sammys) national award for best chapter the last like three times. Brush up on the common sense, scUM.
11 years ago at 10:15 amjagoffs? shut up yinzer
11 years ago at 1:35 pm