More than 60 people were arrested for underage drinking at a party thrown by three Pi Kappa Alpha members at their home in Little Falls early Wednesday morning. From The Montclairion:
All of the party's guests were taken into custody and most were summoned with underage consumption of alcohol, Little Falls police said.According to the landlord, the tenants of 53 Ridge Road, about a mile from campus, moved in just one week prior to the night of the party.
The three tenants named on the lease received charges for providing alcohol to minors, according to police.
Marijuana in a quantity considered significant enough to distribute was also in someone's personal strongbox, according to Lt. Sammy Calafiore of the Little Falls Police Department. Once the resident is identified, "that person will be charged for possession of the drugs," he said."[Responding officers] found marijuana that would lead them to believe they were selling it because of the way it was packaged," said Calafiore, who added that paraphernalia like pipes and dime bags were found at the scene. "I don't know if any harder drugs were found yet."
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I give America 15 years before fraternities are illegal on college campuses. It is absurd how authorities are paying so much attention to college kids having fun.
Wow. Thanks for keeping the stereotypes about Frats alive, boys.
(here come the flames that they were really "good kids" who were "caught up in a bad situation," that it's better for these kids to be drinking and doing drugs in a "controlled environment," or some other such nonsense.)
Wow, news flash...college kids drinking and smoking pot! I'm sure that must be a new phenomenon.
John,
College kids getting drunk and high may not be news, but I'd say 60+ people being arrested at the same place and time sure as heck is.
Hey you aging rockers...the Iceman will be at the Genesis concert tonight at Giants Stadium. Look for me in section 331 row 8...wearing red shirt and denim jacket.
Rock on.
I'm sort of curious why there was a party on a "school night." And also why, since it apparently was in the gray area of a private, non-fraternity affair, the fraternal affiliation of the arrested hosts has to be stressed. (That universities, craven PC-prigs that they are, will use this affair as an excuse to bash the Greek system in general, however, is never to be doubted.)
Ice, you didn't leave this particular party early because you had to be at work the next day, did you?
Sure, it's news anytime 60+ people get arrested, but this same type party will happen every weekend (if not almost every night) in every college town as it always has and probably always will.
Where in the heck did Little Falls keep these kids after they were arrested. Do they have a 'holding cell' large enought for that many?
cathar,
Unless things have changed since I went to MSU, fraternities are not allowed to have houses on campus. The result has always been a bunch of "satellite" houses, which this seems to be one of (police found shirts with PIKE's letters in the oven, a dartboard, and paddles throughout the house also had the same letters). While PIKE is currently denying that this was an "official" frat party (and who can blame them?); it was held by 3 of its members and a lot of the people arrested were members of fraternities as well (the article doesn’t say if they were all the same fraternity or not).
There's no chance that Barson was hosting this shindig, is there?
I'm intrigued by the paddles at the frat house. Are they avid tennis table players?
He's their un-official advisor
"...police found shirts with PIKE's letters in the oven."
Strange place to keep shirts. Unless you're Cosmo Kramer.
Or trying to hide the shirts to keep your Frat out of trouble.
Too bad they didn't have a fire place going...
GNM, if fraternities are to be held officially accountable for all parties held by their members, it only provides another, questionably derived club by which university administrators can bat down houses.
Which of course is the real key to this boon which almost literally dropped into the lap of the authorities at your Alma Mater. As a member for several years of my own undergraduate chapter's board of alumni trustees, I've learned to be wary of university administrators. On the one hand they know only too well that fraternity (and sorority) membership after varsity athletics usually provides the next greatest incentive for regular (meaning not dictated by someone's will, for example) alumni donations, on the other they openly yearn to smash fraternities (they view them as decidedly "undemocratic" in the PC universe they wish us all squashed into) and to supply their own version of a "social life" to their students. They want to play at being nannies; occasions like this one only encourage them to do so.
And this does not mean I'm suggesting instead a "frat rats will be frat rats" policy. Just that I know from experience and study how deans will seize the opportunity here for more and tighter control over even students' social lives.
I wonder, will all the 'beer belches' being emitted from these underage drinking parties contribute to global warming?
Man oh man did I hate the frats and sororities at that school. I actually can't believe people still join them every year. I'm not sure what attracts people to them.
"44 of the arrests were male and the rest female"
Quite the sausage-fest.
I sure hope the boys are finding time to work out after all of this beer-drinking. You know, as a great college administrator by the name of Dean Wormer once said, fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.
I sure hope the boys are finding time to work out after all of this beer-drinking. You know, as a great college administrator by the name of Dean Wormer once said, fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.
I commend the authorities for taking the appropriate actions to address the issue of underage drinking. It's not "just kids having fun". These are *underage* young adults who are prone to binge drinking and put themselves and others at risk.
Sounds like a "Toga Party"!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7G1-IR2rrU&mode=related&search=
"44 of the arrests were male and the rest female"
Quite the sausage-fest."
FUNNIEST thing i've ever read. Just busted out laughing @ work. You guys on this site are hilarious.
As a member of a sorority, I know that the fraternity members stand to get their charter snatched.
bad use of the word snatched!
Oh please! Get real!