In an event worthy of a wintery “Animal House” remake, the University of Michigan’s Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity has been permanently disbanded by its parent organization after causing almost $500,000 of damage to a Michigan ski resort.
The ruling came after the university had already handed down a four-year banishment to the fraternity.
Redefining the term “apré ski,” 120 members of the frat and its sister sorority damaged 45 rooms during a weekend party at the Treetops Ski Resort in January. The students smashed celling tiles, bashed in exit signs, kicked doors off their hinges, and soiled carpeting.
Photos from the resort show rooms trashed with beer cans, broken furniture, broken windows, and holes in the drywall. We’ve been to some fairly epic parties in our day, but the carnage left behind by the Sigma Alpha Mu bros makes us wonder if these guys didn’t channel the ghost of Hunter S. Thompson for inspiration.
Local authorities are still deciding whether or not to press charges against the rowdy partiers, who we are guessing must still be hung over two months later.
