U of M Fraternities Damage 2 Northern Michigan Resorts $50,000.00 Damages.
I was a little shocked and so disappointed when I read this article. This is is not something I would ever expect from the Univeristy of Michigan Student Fraternities and apparently more than one Fraternity was involved with $50,000.00 in damages.
This is something we criticize MSU, OSU for when vadalism occurs after a hugh bowl win. What happened here? U of M has more class than this!
Wow - What is going on here?
I have personally stayed at these resorts had a great time, partied and we have never left damages in our wake of the groups I was with.
This is bad!
Edit: I am more surprised at some of the posts on here thinking that this is not University of Michigan or Mgoblog related. I have seen too many posts of stupid student activities of MSU and OSU starting fires, etc. after winning a bowl game and these same people on here believe that $50K in damages caused by Fraternities of the U of M is not worthy of being on the board and that it does not have an affect on the U of M. Hopefully not a lasting affect, but it does when it is highlighted in the news that these students are from the University of Michigan that caused this kind of damage to the personal property of Resorts in Northern Michigan and if you think that this will not be in the news nationwide you are under estimating social media.
January 21st, 2015 at 8:41 AM ^
year old adults are assholes
January 21st, 2015 at 8:44 AM ^
Just goes to show you that you can Harbaugh too hard.
January 21st, 2015 at 8:45 AM ^
kids get out of hand. Kids damage shit. It happens and we all have something in our past to be ashamed of. That said, my expectaton would be that the disrespectful little dicks would be told to get back into daddies' SUVs, roll back north, and clean their shit up. Then get jobs at Moe's or Bivouac and pay for what they can't fix. Won't happen, but that would have been the expectation for me.
January 21st, 2015 at 8:48 AM ^
Frat boys will be frat boys, but this is a great time for them to learn to be accountable. Hopefully parents don't pay for the damages and sweep this under the rug. If my son was involved, he'd be paying out of his own pocket, apologizing in person, and taking any punishment that was coming his way with a smile.
January 21st, 2015 at 8:54 AM ^
I doubt it will happen this way, but maybe a couple of them.
January 21st, 2015 at 8:55 AM ^
has a slush fund for this. At least they did when I was there. . .
January 21st, 2015 at 8:36 PM ^
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January 21st, 2015 at 8:50 AM ^
Every time I hear someone bitch about the incompatibility of big-time athletics and academics, I wonder why they're not focusing instead on shutting down the Greek system, which adds absolutely nothing of value to the university.
January 21st, 2015 at 8:57 AM ^
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January 21st, 2015 at 1:02 PM ^
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January 21st, 2015 at 1:22 PM ^
There are many, many other ways in which students can learn to take individual responsibility for all sorts of things, though maybe weekly catering is indeed unique to the fraternity system.
As far as living with other people, there are of course dorms, which actually teach you how to live with people who might actually be a little bit different than you in terms of background and perspective. (There's also co-ops, which are cool at least in theory. If you lived there, you'd have to do everything you'd have to do at a frat, only -- again -- with a much more diverse group of people. Even members of the opposite sex!)
You joined a frat for the social aspect of it. Or maybe for networking purposes, if you were particularly career-minded as a freshman. But don't try to tell me you joined it for the philanthropic opportunities.
January 21st, 2015 at 1:57 PM ^
LOL
That's like if Doctors Without Borders members saying, "Hey we fight Ebola and all sorts of nasty illnesses in Third World countries but we live in a really cool house! And by the way, we need you to go through an application process to make sure you kind of look like us and are reasonably photogenic and 'fit in'. We kind of would hate if you've got bad skin, wear coke-rim glasses, have a comb-over, even though you have the world's greatest surgical or diagnostic skills."
January 21st, 2015 at 2:12 PM ^
January 22nd, 2015 at 12:51 AM ^
How many guys with true disabilities do you have? Goth guys? Older guys trying to start a second career? Guys from the military, not ROTC but who actually served? If your fraternity is a meritocracy blind to everything but character, ambition, and ability, then I applaud you guys.
January 22nd, 2015 at 12:47 PM ^
Don't even try Badkitty... double blue gets butt hurt any time there is even the illusion of someone being critical of Greeks... and when they're not, he'll make stuff up so he can perceive he's getting his way.
January 21st, 2015 at 2:02 PM ^
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January 22nd, 2015 at 12:40 AM ^
So let me get this straight, and correct me if I'm wrong. The fraternity brothers learn the intricacies of an HVAC or the electrical system or they learn how to let's say, put up ceiling tile or do woodworking/furniture-making. And then they become certified repairmen and/or craftsmen able to repair these things and they do it themselves. If your fraternity does that, well, I commend you guys.
I seriously question that 's the case in those fraternities that were caught destroying those resorts. Because if someone knew the hard work and effort that took to make or fix something, they wouldn't be trashing someone else's work like they did in those resorts.
January 21st, 2015 at 9:00 AM ^
lighten up people.
January 21st, 2015 at 9:07 AM ^
You seem like the type of guy that would raise his hand in high school to tell the teacher that someone else was reading a magazine covered by their textbook.
January 21st, 2015 at 12:25 PM ^
He must have also really enjoyed playing computer games on north campus on weekends.
January 21st, 2015 at 1:13 PM ^
January 21st, 2015 at 9:33 AM ^
This is absurd, please do not over-genralize like this. There are 66 different chapters of Fraternities/Sorrorities on campus. Nearly all of them take a "fun" trip like this sometime throughout the year. Just because we hear someone like this happen from time to time, does not mean they add absolutely nothing of value to the university.
There are endless philantropic activies each chapter participate in, from individual events to Dance Marathon groups, Greek Week, and organized ASB trips. Go to Ele's Place (a local charity for grieving children) and ask them if they think the UofM greek system is worthless, I think you will hear something very different.
There are always bad apples, people act horrendously when drunk, and especially when with a large group peers. But it is insulting to those of us who have given back to the university, community, and our fraternities to say that we added no value to the university. You can say we "bought" our friends, but I say that's money well spend. I met my now wife through my fraternity's mixer with her sorrority. We have a beautiful family, and still live in Ann Arbor because of our love for the area and university.
January 21st, 2015 at 9:47 AM ^
Nothing like calling the largest umbrella student organization on campus worthless, A couple thousand U of M undergrads are Greek. There are 60ish chapters, Combined, they blow every other student group out of the water in fundraising (as long as we can count the Greek Life kids in dance marathon which we should seeing as it is very Greek.) Not to mention, it generally teaches students how to be men and women.
January 21st, 2015 at 1:11 PM ^
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January 21st, 2015 at 9:08 AM ^
this would have happened at a motel 6.
Not a pasch northern michigan resort. . .
January 21st, 2015 at 11:40 AM ^
ehr....."posh" maybe?
January 21st, 2015 at 11:59 AM ^
Another example of sparty spelling, must be a ....
January 21st, 2015 at 8:51 AM ^
And so can Board Post titles. Please change "Fraternites" to "Fraternities" OP.
In the meantime, this avowed GDI will be skulking off into the distance.
January 21st, 2015 at 8:51 AM ^
You never make the reservation using your organization's real name. You pick a club that you know is going to be somewhere else and will have plenty of proof of their whereabouts should anything happen.
You might still end up with a huge bill for damage, but you won't end up with this kind of PR.
January 21st, 2015 at 8:53 AM ^
Or you just say you're PIKE and hope no one digs any deeper with curiosity. lol.
January 21st, 2015 at 10:34 AM ^
I thought we were the only ones that did that!
January 21st, 2015 at 10:40 AM ^
PIKE is such an easy target! Fulfills every stereotype perfectly, so no one bats an eye. haha.
January 21st, 2015 at 12:35 PM ^
You should know that and not throw out a blanket statement. My PIKE chapter was nothing like you describe.
BETA was the chapter like that at my school, but I know they aren't like that everywhere.
My brother's SigEp chapter at KSU was crazy, but they the university's poster child where I went to school.
January 21st, 2015 at 1:06 PM ^
Oh I know. It's just fun n games. Every fraternity does have a national "perception" so it's just in jest.
Obviously every fraternity is different depending on which campuses etc.
January 21st, 2015 at 1:09 PM ^
January 21st, 2015 at 9:20 AM ^
most likely followed your advice on the reservations. That's why in theOP's link they are unnamed. Everyone involved, the resort owners, employees, and journalists, know they are from a frat at Michigan because those dots aren't hard to connect. Like you said though the damages still get paid for, but no bad press for your chapter.
January 21st, 2015 at 8:55 AM ^
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January 21st, 2015 at 8:57 AM ^
Fratdom > School. Frat boys be frat boys, don't matter what school. I'd argue the worst are at the elite Ivy's.
January 21st, 2015 at 9:02 AM ^
Confuse beirut for beer pong and Dartmouth grads will give you an earful
January 21st, 2015 at 9:25 AM ^
January 21st, 2015 at 9:40 AM ^
If you are in a fraternity and don't destroy things on a ski trip, you are not a frat boy.
January 21st, 2015 at 12:04 PM ^
So the rest are "Frat Man"? Sounds like a Howard Stern super hero.....
January 21st, 2015 at 9:37 AM ^
A number of times in my life. It never occurred to me that I should destroy someone else's property for entertainment.
assholes.
EDIT:
Two downvotes so far. Is someone that destroys a hotel room not an asshole?
January 21st, 2015 at 10:01 AM ^
I have received alot of down votes for this myself. Not really understanding why unless it is from the ones that happend to feel it is okay to destroy private property of others because hey they are young students, a little too drunk and because of that this that makes it okay.
No excuses for this behavior, if you can't control yourself and show respect for the property of others, maybe they should consider not drinking.
January 21st, 2015 at 10:20 AM ^
the people trying to justify their behavior. I go to places that have large, drunken crowds on a pretty regular basis. I've never seen someone in a nightclub, much less a large group of people, suddenly decide that it's ok to start smashing up the place.
January 21st, 2015 at 12:23 PM ^
and didn't see anyone really trying to justify their behavior. Mostly people flabbergasted at your shock that UM students were capable of such things.
Mix 18-21 year old guys in large numbers together with alcohol and bad things can happen.
Google the media coverage of the way people acted after UM won the basketball championship in 1989 as just one example. A police car was rolled through the front window of the First of America (I know its something else now) branch at the corner of South U. and East U., among many other things.
January 21st, 2015 at 9:09 AM ^
yesterday discussing this trip. Given the amount of alcohol they claimed was consumed I'm not suprised that this happend. That of course doesnt excuse the damages but I'm suprised that someone didn't say, "Maybe 40 handles is too much...lets go with 30."