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Originally Posted by IrishLake

From everything I've heard on local media... no "adults" were present. No advisors, parents, chaperones, school representatives, etc. I dont ever remember having them at our formals either, though. Winter semi-formals were always held on-campus and were dry events. Spring formals were a big deal, though, and we also took buses to Lima or Findlay for them. However, there was always a core group of sisters... the exec girls, risk team, etc who stayed sober and regulated hardcore on people who got out of control. My freshman year, our own sweetheart (fiance of a senior) got out of control, and he was escorted out by 3 boyfriends of other sisters and made to sit in the parking lot under threat of calling the police. I just don't get how only 20-30 people got the better of supposedly 250-300 people. According to that Lyndsay girl from the facility on the radio today, that was how many people were out of control versus others just having a normal good time. She even mentioned that one person disappeared completely for hours, and people were afraid he had fallen in the lake and drowned.

Yeah I think our HQ policies are a little stricter regarding chaperones and events. Evey formal and semi they had to be there. Granted they weren't walking around being the "fun police" or anything, they were just there in the background in case anything got crazy.

And as far as how 20-30 could get the best of 200 people--the "oh well everybody's doing it already" mentality is a very powerful one.