“The University of Oregon is investigating after as many as 1,000 students apparently trashed an island in the middle of Lake Shasta during a massive fraternity camping trip.”
“Park officials later found 90 abandoned tents, sleeping bags, coolers, trash bags, and University of Oregon gear, per OregonLive. Photos posted to Facebook show everything from beer cases to flip flops, with plastic chairs and garbage strewn in the lake.”
This does not improve my opinion of frats and sororities. What a bunch of asshats.
Seems like the suspects are stupid and rich. Stupid because they left stuff with identifying marks on it (e.g. the cooler with ΛΧΑ on it), and rich because some of the stuff they left must cost non-trivial amounts of money (e.g. the tents, sleeping bags, etc.).
Based on my own person witnessing to what frats are capable of, my sons were brought up never to join such groups. in college. I’ve seen less-than-animal like behaviors, and I just don’t understand why would any decent parents allow their kids to join such groups.
Weird that they would leave personal belongings like that. Perhaps they chipped in together to purchase the tents and no one wanted them in the end. Odd.
I have no idea if this is “frat” behavior, but I do recognize entitled, spoiled brat behavior when I see it. And while they are busy playing “Greek,” perhaps they could ship their unwanted tents to the real Greece to aid the refugees flooding their shores.
Isn’t this the generation that is so obsessed with the environment? Really, the school should ship them all back there and make them clean it up. What do they learn by having someone else do it?
This is such a shame. I agree that the students should have to clean it up themselves, but I doubt that will happen. Unless you convict someone of criminal action, it’s hard to force them to do anything, and it’s going to be near impossible to prove who did what.
I don’t know. One can make a case they were very smart. They figured out that with their financial largesse of mom & dad/trust fund and having better things to do than clean up, it’d be much better to practice and step into their roles as future masters’ of the universe by leaving it for the “lowly” others to come clean up after them.
I doubt it. It’s much more likely he was scared off by their activities.
This generation is more obsessed with gender equality than the environment. So as long as both male and female snowflakes were puking their guts out and trashing the island, then all is good.
I would love to see every one of these kids expelled from U of O, prosecuted for littering, and thrown in jail. I know it will never happen, but I can dream… O:-)
I, too, am more concerned with the litter and trash than the cost of the tents. We partied in high school, and we preferred to do it in the woods so we didn’t bother anyone. We always cleaned up our trash - the good little boy scouts and girl scouts that we were.
Its very likely the fraternity members involved were habituated into this long before undergrad. It wouldn’t surprise me if they had the same attitudes as many HS teens in one uncle’s/aunt’s upper/upper-middle class suburban town.
One common complaint they and their neighbors have is how many HS teens would go into the woods behind their homes, make a loud ruckus each night, and leave piles of trash including beer cans all over the woods. This continued even after law enforcement attempted to put a stop to it thanks to well-off parents whose attitudes amounted to “My kid could do no wrong” or “Give them a break, teens will be teens!” along with their disdaining of my older relatives and their neighbors because they are relative “newcomers” and had risen from the lower SES within their own lifetimes.
