To whom it may concern,
I am writing to inform you about the behavior and conduct of the students that attended the Phi Delta Pi formal event that was held here at Lake Lyndsay Lodge on Friday April 9, 2010.
Immediately upon their arrival we were informed by the bus drivers that the students were acting belligerent during the ride down and demanded for them to pull over to let them urinate on the side of the road. When the bus drivers did pull over, they were then stopped by a Butler County sheriff.
When the students arrived around 8:00pm most were already heavily intoxicated and some could barely manage to walk inside the facility. Upon arrival, a male student asked the Lake Lyndsay staff member Yvonne if she had a washer and dryer in the building because he had vomited on his shirt and pants.
One of our most important rules that is stated in the contract, that the president, Courtney did sign...reads, "we do not allow drinks on the dance floor." Yvonne was attending the event on Lake Lyndsay's behalf in order to manage any problems that may arise and enforce any rules. While she was trying to enforce this rule, Courtney, who was also very intoxicated, informed Yvonne that she would like her to "stay in the office and leave them alone." I had to purchase wood restorer to re-wax the dance floor the next morning.
A handle on one of the toilets in the women's restroom was broken by one of the female students. So Yvonne put an 'out of order' sign on the door. As soon as she did this, a student came in the restroom and started to take the paper off of the door so she could get inside the stall. Yvonne said to her, "excuse me, but this stall is out of order, that is why it says 'out of order.'"
The girl said to her, "you don't understand...! don't care." Another Lake Lyndsay staff member, Elizabeth, observed two girls repeatedly trying to urinate into the sinks on the bathroom counter. They told her that they could not wait for a stall to become available.
A male student apparently became angry and decided to flip the entire appetizer table over. Red meatball sauce splattered all over the carpeted area, along with cheese and other foods that the students proceeded to walk through and ground into the carpet. When Yvonne and Elizabeth ran over to see what had happened, everyone in the area was laughing and would not tell them who the person was that flipped the table, only that it was "some guy." This resulted in my cleaning crew having to rent a rug cleaner at 12:00am in order to have the carpet clean and ready for the wedding reception we had the next day.
There were also two girls who continually vomited throughout the facility. Yvonne told them if they were not able to make it to the bathroom stall the next time they had to vomit, she would have to ask them to leave the building and wait outside for the buses.
When the caterer decided to stop serving the alcohol because the students were overly intoxicated, a couple of the male students climbed over the bar and on top of the counter to get around the caterer and to the alcohol.
Two male students started to remove their clothing and decided they were going to go swimming in the lake. Yvonne had to threaten to call the police before they agreed to put their clothing back on and go inside the building.
We let the students use our table decorations for free. And they repaid us by taking two of our crystal vases outside and throwing them off of the porch to shatter on the concrete patio below. We now have to inform the brides that are scheduled to use these vases later this summer, that we do not have enough for them to use now due to the fact that they do not make this particular vase any longer.
Elizabeth saw a group of male students on the side of the building laughing, and when both Yvonne and Elizabeth went back later to see what they had done, they found a pile of human feces on the side of the building.
There is a huge ornamental concrete lion statue that sits at the front entrance of the building. Someone knocked this over and broke part of the mane off of the lion.
Yvonne found two students in the caterer's closet having intercourse on top of the stacked tables. Yvonne turned the lights on and told them to "get out now." The male student proceeded to curse at her and turn the light off. Yvonne turned the light back on and stayed there while they dressed themselves and left the closet.
I also found two students in our Beach House (another rental building on the property) having intercourse. I yelled into the building and told them to get out before I called the police. I then went over to Lake Lyndsay Lodge to tell Yvonne and Courtney. This is when I realized that Courtney was too intoxicated to talk to and there were no adult chaperons representing Miami University whom I could inform.
A male and a female student missed the buses, and when we asked them where they were and why they were not able to see the buses pull in and out...they told us that they were picking up trash on the premises.
Thirty seven 30-packs of Natural Light beer was left behind in the building. We had a non-alcoholic wedding reception the next day that gained access to the building at 8:00am...so it was up to us to dispose of this large amount of alcohol.
I have had 13 calls for lost items from this event. This is the most lost item calls I have ever had at any party in twelve years.
We are appalled at the student's behavior. My husband and I are graduates of Miami University, and we both agree that college students can drink and have a good time, but last Friday was not just a bunch of college students drinking and having a
good time. It was a bunch of college students getting totally obliterated and behaving like immature children. We are tempted to send this story to the newspapers in the surrounding areas to inform parents of future Miami University students just how sororities and fraternities really behave when they think no one school related is watching. I seriously cannot believe
what happened last Friday night. It saddens me to think that this generation of students conduct themselves in this way while in public.
I spoke to a mother of one of the girls in the sorority and told her all that had happened. Needless to say she was also disgusted and very apologetic.
They had a total lack of respect for my family's business and for this reason among many others; no sorority or fraternity from Miami University is welcome back to Lake Lyndsay ever again. Please inform this chapter they will have to find a new venue for their formal next year.
We obviously are keeping the $500.00 security deposit that was paid for this event. We are not seeking any further payment for the damages, even though the security deposit does not cover repairs made to the building and extra cleaning fees that were incurred.
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