Where are the leaders of the white community? Fraternities trash two ski resorts

[bluestateguy]

University of Michigan Fraternities Vandalize Two Northern Michigan Resorts
Posted: Jan 20, 2015 11:14 PM EST Updated: Jan 21, 2015 1:58 PM EST
By Alyssa Gambla, Reporter
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Two ski resorts trashed. They say 3 University of Michigan fraternities are to blame. Now the the resorts are looking at days of clean up, and thousands of dollars in repairs.

Treetops in Gaylord says members of the University of Michigan's chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity did as much as $50,000 in damage over the weekend.

And thousands more in damage at Boyne Highlands Resort, where two other University of Michigan fraternities were staying.

"We had a group of a fraternity that was visiting and had an excessive party and did damage on the resort. Food, beer, alcohol, the walls, carpet damage, ceiling broken down and furniture damage," said Barry Owens, General Manager of Treetops.

http://www.mifox32.com/story/27898984/university-of-michigan-fraternities-vandalize-two-northern-michigan-resorts#.VL_3rVU-fac.facebook

Despicable. Where are the white leaders? Is this the example that they are setting for their community? Where's Bill O'Reilly? Where's Rush Limbaugh? Where is Oilver North? Where's Miley Cyrus? Where is Tim Tebow?

We have a whole generation of white youth that are not respecting authority! White on white crime is out control!

And yet all we hear from the so-called white leaders is crickets chirping and "waaaaaahh! I want more tax cuts!"

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Snarf!

[yeoman6987]

3. Are you saying Hispanics and African Americans

are not in frats? News to my fray brothers.

[AnAzulTexas]

9. I was gonna bring that up

[Kingofalldems]

40. He didn't say any such thing.

Was that an attempt at diversion?

[Nye Bevan]

2. Joe Biden is the most senior white person in the country.

He needs to break his silence on this.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. Lol

[mountain grammy]

7. Good one

[GreatGazoo]

32. yes and when you factor in the snow, this is white on white on WHITE crime

[F4lconF16]

38. ...

[azmom]

39. WWW

That's the worst.

[freshwest]

5. Hehehe! Well played. Yeah, most of us growing up learned to avoid these people... OOPS...

I bet FNN will call the Treetops a no-go zone under sharia law now!

Cue blaming Obama in 3... 2... 1...

[glasshouses]

6. .

[jtuck004]

8. Are they filing criminal charges, or does this not rise to the severity of

laying down in a mall?

[rocktivity]

10. Between the resorts having an average vertical drop of 388 feet

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and most of the students not being old enough to drink legally, I'm not surprised that they got that bored.


rocktivity

[Brother Buzz]

11. Tell me you didn't drop a zero off

[rocktivity]

12. I DID drop a zero off -- from the front!!!

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Treetops Ski Resort
Vertical rise from the lowest to highest elevation: 225 ft
Less than 100 acres skiable

Boyne Highlands Ski Resort
Vertical rise from the lowest to highest elevation: 552 ft
250-500 acres skiable

The tallest in the Midwest? Mount Bohemia Ski Resort, Michigan: 966 ft. vertical drop; 585 acres skiable


rocktivity

[Divernan]

14. ? from European re WI ski resorts:"Can you see the people at the bottom of the trails?"

Answer from my Wisconsin classmate/now professor at UWM:

"You can TALK to the people at the bottom of the trails!"

[rocktivity]

15. WITHOUT yodeling, you mean?

rocktivity

[MaggieD]

13. They're only thugs if they're black

Remember that.

[Divernan]

16. Check out photos of damage at the OP link.

They look like a group of apes on speed and LSD rampaged through these locations.

The OP link reports that police had to escort the students out after they "wreaked havoc" in these rooms and hallways.

Like here, the ceiling tiles were ripped down and destroyed. "They had a series of rooms, a couple floors of rooms, obviously things got out of hand. We estimate the cleanup and damage is around $50,000," said Owens.

And Boyne Highlands saw damage from two more University of Michigan fraternities in up to 12 separate private condos throughout the resort.

"We're the stewards of the property and it's disturbing to us and we need to protect their investments. We are following up with U of M and they promised us swift action. We assessed a significant fee when they checked out not knowing what's in repair but we wanted to protect our owners and ourselves," said Mike Chumbler, General Manager of Boyne Highlands.

U-M staff members in the Office of Greek Life have begun meeting with the presidents of the fraternities and sororities involved.

Yes, I get the sarcasm in the replies on this thread, but it's no laughing matter. And for another thing, even should the resorts not press criminal charges on the property damage, the Michigan Attorney General should investigate and press charges on underage drinking and illegal purchase of alcohol/providing alcohol to minors.

Legal Age for Drinking/Serving Alcohol - The legal drinking age in Michigan is 21

http://www.alcohollaws.org/michiganalcohollaws.html

The skewed reporting on and law enforcement reaction to this level of vandalism is an example of preferred treatment for the wealthy over the poor. Some out-of-work parent or teen gets a criminal record for stealing food/shoplifting; same for political protestors/demonstrators - but greeks with money to burn on weekend ski getaways? God forbid they get a criminal record - could impede being post-graduation employment or admission to grad schools.

[glasshouses]

18. lol

"They look like a group of apes on speed and LSD rampaged through these locations"

[GreatGazoo]

31. "had to escort them out" ! Did they run out of handcuffs? They forgot how to arrest people?

So you can do $50K in damage and the police just drive you home to sober up?

"ESCORT THEM" ?!!

[Cha]

17. And, this is the good news.. they are going to be held responsible..

"We are very disappointed in the behavior of some of our students during a weekend visit to two northern Michigan ski resorts.

I want to assure you that the organizations and the individuals involved will be held accountable for their actions.

While we are still gathering information, we understand that the damage at Treetops Resort and Boyne Highlands is expected to total in the thousands of dollars.
U-M staff members in the Office of Greek Life have begun meeting with the presidents of the fraternities and sororities involved.

We expect full payment for all damages.

The local Greek chapters are in the process of notifying their national organizations, which could bring their own sanctions."

I had to find out.. this was atrocious.. for what?!

thanks bluestate.

[Divernan]

19. Anything less than criminal charges will not phase these animals.

Sounds like all the university will do is make the fraternities/sororities pay the costs of repairs; and the national greek organizations may impose some temporary social sanctions, such as no parties in their houses for a semester. Which is no big deal because they just rent some off campus facility for parties.

[cwydro]

22. Good lord, why are they not facing criminal charges?

Oh, wait.

[tridim]

24. Mom and Dad writing out checks isn't being "held responsible".

Knowing frat behavior that is exactly what will happen.

[Divernan]

37. That's why part-time or scholarship students not welcome by Greeks.

Members have to have the bucks to live the Greek lifestyle, subsidize the parties, pay for your share of the booze, etc. You will find precious few, if any, work-study students on fraternity rows.

[exboyfil]

20. Maybe they are afraid of losing the Greek business

but why don't they press charges for vandalism? I can't understand it. In one sense what the school does is irrelevant to the crime which was committed (the chapter should be kicked off campus and the Greek members should be on probation at least).

[IronLionZion]

21. When will Obama's white half do something about this?

[LawDeeDah]

25. Best reply, among many good ones.

[Jamastiene]

23. Excellent post.

K&R

[HappyMe]

26. Maybe their favorite sports team won.

[bullwinkle428]

27. You had me at "Tim Tebow".

K&R.

[alarimer]

28. I think the Greek system needs to be banned.

They are nothing but expensive gangs.

[NCTraveler]

29. I will give it back to you.

Where are the leaders of the black community? We are in a place in society where three frats destroy property and it is automatically assumed that they are all white. Probably close to a correct assumption.

The whole leaders of the white/black community thing is nothing more than right wing rhetoric. You did a really good job of displaying how pathetic it is with your satire. Excellent job. The concept behind it is disturbing though. Not your concept.

The tit for tat done by wingers is to stoke division. That is easier than bringing people together for a greater cause.

[merrily]

30. Thank heaven for the overindulged rich kid defense, eh?

[LeftinOH]

33. Bill them for the damage, and ban them from visiting again. n/t

[tularetom]

34. Looks like double secret probation is in their future

Since these entitled fuckers have never done a days work in their lives, they ought to be made to clean up their own mess and repair the damage they did. Not have their daddy's hire some immigrants to do it for them, not pay the resorts for the cost of repairs, get out there, sweat, and get some calluses on their soft white hands.

[Erose999]

35. White on white crime is a serious problem.

[snooper2]

36. So people here automatically assume there are no black members of any of these fraternities

I'm trying to figure out what is more racist in this thread

[mahatmakanejeeves]

41. U-M fraternities, sororities suspended for vandalism

U-M fraternities, sororities suspended for vandalism

By Katrease Stafford, Detroit Free Press 9:25 a.m. EST January 27, 2015
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313-223-4759
@KatreaseS_Freep

Six University of Michigan fraternities and sororities have now been suspended by their national offices after causing thousands of dollars worth of damage at two ski resorts nearly two weeks ago, according to university officials.

The Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity was the first to be suspended last week and the remaining five were suspended over the weekend.

Sigma Delta Tau sorority, Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, Alpha Phi sorority, Chi Psi fraternity and the Delta Gamma sorority were also suspended after being accused of causing more than $50,000 in damage at the Treetops Resort and condominiums at Boyne Highlands near Harbor Springs.

"This gives the university time to sort out additional details that are necessary before placing additional sanctions on the organizations or individuals involved," the university said in a statement. "The executive boards of the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association on the Ann Arbor campus have initiated their own reviews of this situation that could lead to sanctions against the fraternity and sorority chapters."

[napkinz]

42. ...

[dilby]

43. My question is why did the resort not remove every one of these people

from the premises or call the cops to have them removed. I worked in the Hotel industry for years while in college and the second it looked like a party was happening we cracked down on it so it never got out of hand.

[Cali_Democrat]

44. Thugs!

Oh...I forgot.....only black people can be thugs according to White America.

Let's just call them misguided youth.

[FLPanhandle]

45. My daughters soroitity is quite diverse

Nice assumptions you make.

[lumberjack_jeff]

46. "Fraternity" means "white"? Learn something new every day. n/t