This is one reason colleges don't get respect-frat boy vandalism

Oh Good God, that is out and out destruction..Absolutely disgraceful. Who were supposed to be overseeing these kids?. That kind of damage must have been heard and seen by other people as it was happening, who were not connected with the college, so one wonders how it could have been allowed to get this far.

Incidentally what exactly is a Fraternity and sorority (in the context of a college)...we don't have that saying here?
 

I lost the link but there more pictures of the rooms which look like an episode of hoarders. I think 50K is a preliminary low ball estimate.

I wonder if they had any tests or papers due that following week. Or what they actually learned.

Also, in another even more disgusting college boy story. Vanderbilt Football players apparently rape a women, record it, blame it on "sexual freedom" or campus culture/atmosphere. Also one of the suspects defense is they were too drunk to make a conscious decision-huh?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/14/us-usa-tennessee-vanderbilt-idUSKBN0KN0D420150114

College life, scam or just plain old people with scumbag character issues?
 
It also happened at another ski resort, not just one. The other ski resort hadn't, as of yesterday, released the damage amount. Wild fraternity parties aren't new, but I the violence is escalating. It's the "mob mentality" of course, but I feel it's also a generation of children who haven't been raised to consider the "consequences". Everybody has been so concerned about "not damaging their self-esteem" and "allowing them to express themselves" to install any sense of "Ok, let me think about this.....I'm probably going to get in a LOT of trouble if I do this." The presence of plentiful alcohol, of course, is always a major influence in this.
 
What kind of parents raise these people? I live in a college town and I'm not the only one who has stated some of these students are just "mean." I know there are a lot of serious students out there but some of them I don't get.

When I went back to school in my late 20's, it was for survival or I'd be making minimum wage all my life. I took it so seriously. Being a little older helped.
 
Lord of the flies?

Most uni students over here live at home with their parents.
Country students who travel to study mostly share digs with a handful of other students.
The few residential colleges associated with the sandstone universities have problems occasionally, alcohol fuelled, of course.
 
Dame Warrigal said:
Lord of the flies?

Most uni students over here live at home with their parents.
Country students who travel to study mostly share digs with a handful of other students.
The few residential colleges associated with the sandstone universities have problems occasionally, alcohol fuelled, of course.
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Here in the states many feel "college" is about "the experience" as it knowledge and learning. There are actually colleges out there that don't want and recommend that students do not work while in college. The completion rate for degrees is not favorable for the student or college in many areas.

The problem is when you are isolated on campus like that the mob mentality does take over as pointed out. Everyone thinks alike and everyone wants to belong because "the mob" is the only thing that they can belong and/or relate to.

Living off campus and working gives the student real world experience. It's all about getting organized and being professional about studying. I bet you the off campus working student has better study habits than many students on campus with nothing else to do except class(notice I didn't say classwork). Except for a few majors/specialties that all be require a good student too many college majors simply study the night before a test or do a paper or project a day before it's do never really learning anything or thinking about it. It does wind up about being about something they go through or "the experience" and not knowledge.
 
My granddaughter was an RA (Resident Assistant) for her last three years in college. She was trained by the college how to deal with seriously drunk students, which is lucky because one of her first incidents was when two freshman girls came screaming down the hall that there was "something" wrong with their friend in the bathroom. She ran into the bathroom, crawled under a locked door and found a 17-year-old freshman girl with her face submerged in the toilet water. The girl wasn't breathing when she pulled her out of the toilet and started mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Luckily, the paramedics came quickly and the girl was hauled off to the hospital with severe alcohol poisoning....the aftermath of a fraternity party.

I will admit that I did my share of under-age drinking in college, but as I was a lightweight when it came to drinking, I could never get past two beers without going to sleep.
 

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