Miami university(Ohio) soriety party gone bad!

HA, was big ben here? I do about 10-15 weddings a year at this place, nice as hell. what a mess.

Miami sorority suspended after party



By Jennifer Baker • jbaker@enquirer.com • May 11, 2010

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Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women announced on its website that Miami suspended its Ohio Zeta chapter shortly after an administrative hearing was held April 30. Pi Beta Phi said it also placed its Miami chapter on probation.
“Fraternity leadership is observing the university’s decision, but has not yet determined the future of its chapter’s charter,” the Fraternity statement reads.

The suspension means the sorority loses its campus dorm suite, can't recruit new members and can't participate as a group in campus activities, Miami spokeswoman Claire Wagner said. There was no answer Tuesday at an Oxford, Ohio, telephone listing for the chapter.
In a letter to Miami’s dean of students as testimony for a university disciplinary hearing, lodge owner Lyndsay Rapier-Phipps described a wild scene of drunken debauchery and destruction during the April 9 event. The letter was posted online.
“When the students arrived around 8 p.m. most were heavily intoxicated and some could barely manage to walk inside the facility,” her letter states.

Students took drinks onto the dance floor, broke a toilet in the women’s restroom and continued to use it, urinated in sinks, toppled a table of food onto the carpet and vomited several times.

The group was permitted to use table decorations for free, but they hurled crystal vases off a porch to watch them shatter below on a concrete patio. A large concrete lion also was knocked over and broken.

At one point, several men jumped the counter to get their own drinks after the caterer stopped serving alcohol. People defecated outside. Two couples were caught having sex.

Thirty-seven 30-packs of beer were left behind at the building and found by lodge staff members, who had to scramble to remove them all before a wedding that was not serving alcohol was held there the next day.

“We are appalled at the students’ behavior,” Rapier-Phipps wrote. “My husband and I are graduates of Miami University, and we both agree that college students can drink and have a good time, but last Friday was not just a bunch of college students drinking and having a good time. It was a bunch of college students getting totally obliterated and behaving like immature children.''

The owner says no other sorority or fraternity from Miami University is welcome at Lake Lyndsay again.

She said she kept the group's $500 security deposit to go toward the costs of repairing the damages and extra cleaning.

"The alumnae join Fraternity leadership in expressing great disappointment in the decisions of a few chapter members who have completely disregarded the values in which Pi Beta Phi was founded," Mary Loy Tatum, grand president of the 134-chapter organization, said in a statement.

The Associated Press contributed.
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Can someone explain to me why Frats/Sor even exist?

What is their purpose?

Agree, "Status"

I'm not really sure why they exist either. I always thought they existed because their rich parents wanted to make sure their kids had some frieds to hang with that had money also. That's what I always thought anyway...I could be way off.

bigtendominator said:

Can someone explain to me why Frats/Sor even exist?

What is their purpose?

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Free beer.

ha that is ridiculous.

and yes free beer is definitely a plus. just show up to the parties, claim you're interested in pledging, give false name/email, drink all the beer.

The Devil below had a big con fo, it was crowded as hell down there. A motion was made and plans were laid to join a frat somewhere. What frat is best for a devilous guest the chairman wanted to know. And from then til now they eat their chow with Alpha Gamma Rho. Oh they praise ole Sigma Chi and Beta Theta Pi and fill us full of alot bull of dozens of frats we know. But we want men who do and we want men who are true, so gives us the bunch with the knockout punch like Aplha Gamma Rho Hey Alpha Gamma Rho. YEAH!!!

Free Beer and someone todo your homework for you...... Parent get the worse end they pay all these dues and housing for you to party for free and get less of an education. Only good thing is that alot of people hire people that are or were in the same Fraternity. I know serveral of people who got good jobs from being a frat brother.

My old fraternity had a closet full of old tests. We called it the "Poop File." Each test you might take of course was not exactly the same as the ones in the closet, however you could get a general idea of what the questions may involve and how to prepare accordingly. I did study very much on my own, but that "Poop File" was very instrumental in getting through college. The frat I was in was more a professional organization than social even though we did have parties. Each semester, each individual had to pay a "Social Fee" that went for kegs of beer when we had a band for big home games. Fratenities do alot of charity work for the community and do establish a network of friends and colleagues, but in this case, as the norm. the publicity is always bad because of the booze that leads to an incident.

Walter Cronkite was a Pike....(Pi Kappa Alpha)

If there were no frats or sororities, Animal House would have never been made...

bigtendominator said:

Can someone explain to me why Frats/Sor even exist?

What is their purpose?

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institutionalized snobbery