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Pi Beta Phi gets to hold the title of wildest sorority of the Midwest, according to smoking gun website Deadspin. But it’s not Northwestern’s chapter contributing to that, it’s Ohio University. Deadspin has acquired documents from The Parkersburg Art Center, where OU’s chapter held their winter formal, that lists the damages done to the establishment by the lovely ladies of Pi Phi. This includes “stripping and refinishing the hardwood dance floor, re-seating a sink, repainting a section of the Ballroom ceiling, replacing two beer keg ‘tappers,’ and replacing the Ballroom carpeting.”
The story behind these damages is where it gets interesting. The Director of Parkersburg claims these damages were due to “your member using plated loaded with food as missiles in food fights, pouring a bottle of alcohol on the dance floor and dancing in the puddles and throwing a glass-full of liquor up onto the ceiling. The sink is the result of one of your member s and her date attempting to have sexual relations on it.”
We’ll agree that sorority and fraternity formals at NU can sometimes get out-of-hand, but thankfully NU’s Greek community has never caused the bartender to “fear for her safety, when a number of guests attempted to tear off her clothing and take the money which was in her apron pocket.”
(There’s more debauchery. Read it in full here, at Deadspin.)
CALM DOWN PI PHI
This was at miami o, not ou
Actually, this particular incident did happen at Ohio University, though a similar event occurred with Pi Phi at Miami of Ohio.
Best,
Olivia LaVecchia, Buzzard editor