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bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 01:17 PM Mar 2015

Where are the leaders of the white community?

Where are the so-called white leaders? Where is Limbaugh, Hasselback, Peyton Manning and Paul Ryan? When will they address the crisis in their own community, and the destructive behavior of their young people?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2974903/University-Michigan-fraternities-sororities-caused-500-000-damage-ski-resort-Animal-House-style-rager-students-REFUSING-pay.html

A ski resort has issued the University of Michigan with a bill for half a million dollars after six fraternities and sororities staged a huge party that tore apart the hotel in an Animal House-style melee.

Originally, it was estimated the college students caused around $75,000 damage at Treetops Resort during a ski trip in January.

But a full assessment of the 45 rooms and connecting hallway - which was stripped of its ceiling - plus the loss of revenue, and damage to the brand's reputation has seen that figure multiply by six.

And according to Barry Owens, general manager of Treetops in Gaylord, the fraternity that originally apologized for the damage - Sigma Alpha Mu - is refusing to pay up.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2974903/University-Michigan-fraternities-sororities-caused-500-000-damage-ski-resort-Animal-House-style-rager-students-REFUSING-pay.html#ixzz3TFXOyCpZ
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Amishman

(5,557 posts)
3. I wonder how much is 'damage to the brand'
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 01:47 PM
Mar 2015

I smell an effort to inflate the damage total to try and blackmail a profit out of the university.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
4. Obama is our leader now!
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 01:49 PM
Mar 2015

Do something about these hooligans Obama! Oh and thanks for the damage they already did!

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)
7. The frats and sororities should pay for the damage they did.
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 01:55 PM
Mar 2015

There's really no excuse for behaving like assholes.

 

dissentient

(861 posts)
8. We need a white Al Sharpton style spokesman to comment and speak for the white community when
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 01:59 PM
Mar 2015

ever a white lunatic does something in the news, like goes on a shooting spree, or commits some crime that becomes a news story.

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