Hotel Plans to Sue Pi Kappa Alpha (Colorado State)

[exlurker]

http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs....TOMERSERVICE02

This looks like another example of the "you can't let 'em out in public" behavior that certainly doesn't improves Greeks" image.

Ben Irvin, president of Western Seasons Hotel Corp. in Beaver Creek, said the group caused approximately $20,000 in damages to the privately owned condominium lodge . . . .

[nate2512]

Originally Posted by exlurker

Ben Irvin, president of Western Seasons Hotel Corp. in Beaver Creek, said the group caused approximately $20,000 in damages to the privately owned condominium lodge . . . .

There an article about this anywhere?

Pi Kappa Alpha, a local fraternity unaffiliated with Colorado State University, could face a $4.5 million lawsuit for allegedly causing heavy damages to a Beaver Creek hotel after a night of partying in November.
Ben Irvin, president of Western Seasons Hotel Corp. in Beaver Creek, said the group caused approximately $20,000 in damages to the privately owned condominium lodge he manages and then refused to pay for it.

Irvin said the group first misled him, saying they were members of the Pi Kappa Alpha Alumni Association.

"Whenever they started checking in, my sales and general managers both became a little nervous because they felt they were in the age group as students," Irvin said.

$20,000 in one night? GOOD GOD!

Great job, guys.

[KyleMcGuire1983]

a fraternity pretending to not be a fraternity student group? what a shock. Face it, the reason you got "Pike Alumni" instead of Pikes are because reserving rooms with greek letters = denied entry or jacked up prices.

$20,000 in damage? How the HELL do you do that? Just sell your house and pay the hotel, you did this to yourself.

As for $4.5 million? That's outrageous. The hotel should be compensated for damages and loss of business (plus legal fees), none of this 4.5 million nonsense.

[nate2512]

Originally Posted by KyleMcGuire1983

As for $4.5 million? That's outrageous. The hotel should be compensated for damages and loss of business (plus legal fees), none of this 4.5 million nonsense.

I could be totally wrong on this, but, it seems that because of the non renewal of his contract he could be losing that much money?

[nittanyalum]

Woooooowwwww. Fellas, fellas, fellas. Come on, now. I KNOW your mother didn't raise you like that...

[JonInKC]

$20,000? Did someone drive their Ford Exploder through a wall or what? It seems like it'd take some effort to do that much damage.

[jmagnus]

Irvin claims the group broke lamps in rooms, damaged cars in the parking lots, vomited in the lobby and broke beer bottles in the common areas, among other things.

"The vicious and malicious thing was they slashed panels in elevators and then they wrote obscenities across the panels," Irvin said. "That alone was about $7,000 in damage."


Car damage can also get REALLY expensive...

[cheerfulgreek]

WOW! The greek stereotype continues.

[Low C Sharp]

it seems that because of the non renewal of his contract he could be losing that much money?

Consequential damages. I have no idea whether this particular claim has merit or not, but the theory is sound. If, by damaging property, you damage the owner's business reputation, that can be quite costly.
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[ThetaPrincess24]

I'm wondering why this chapter has not lost it's charter from their international office? If this behavior is what got them unaffiliated status from CSU and it's obviously continuing to the present I dont understand why they havent been shut down. Not only have they caused bad publicity to themselves and their HQ but now they may cost their HQ a lot of money.

[Tom Earp]

Hey, they scewed up, they pay for it as well they should!

It was ignorant and totaly stupid!

Burn them, put them in jail, fine them and get rid of them!

Enough is enough!

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by nate2512

There an article about this anywhere?

Check the link in the posting above yours.

I'm not sure about this, but I think it was the Pikes who got in hot water by having a scare crow attached their homecoming float several years ago, shortly after the murder of a gay man named Matthew Shepherd (a play called The Laramie Project told that story) who was left on a fence in similar fashion in Laramie, Wyoming.

I will see if I can verify that.

ETA, unfortunately, it appear I am right. See the link below:

http://collegeave.colostate.edu/arch...ue3/greek.html

[jmagnus]

Originally Posted by DeltAlum

Check the link in the posting above yours.

I'm not sure about this, but I think it was the Pikes who got in hot water by having a scare crow attached their homecoming float several years ago, shortly after the murder of a gay man named Matthew Shepherd (a play called The Laramie Project told that story) who was left on a fence in similar fashion in Laramie, Wyoming.

I will see if I can verify that.

ETA, unfortunately, it appear I am right. See the link below:

http://collegeave.colostate.edu/arch...ue3/greek.html

I wish that article would have went a little more in depth. It said "some saw anti-gay messages" but didn't say what they were. I can't imagine anyone would be that blatant about something like that. Although, if they were kicked off campus, it had to be pretty serious.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by mo_moneymike

You would never see no Iotas doin' no isht like this.

Never say never.

No fraternity member who trashes a hotel is living up to his organization's values.