USC (CA) Alleged "Rooftop" Photos (Kappa Sigma)

[TPA85]

Ok, after looking at the pictures, here are my thoughts:

1) That's a really freaking high roof and they're so close to the edge!! I would be terrified if I were that girl.

2) When it said "rooftop photos" I thought it would be more like in the center of the roof where only maybe a couple neighboring buildings had sight of it....not all out there intentionally showing the world the goods..


Pre-photos I was like ... Post photos:



ETA: Anyone have a picture of the whole house (with no naked people on top, preferably)? I tried google and the USC IFC site and neither had the whole house.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by TPA85

ETA: Anyone have a picture of the whole house (with no naked people on top, preferably)? I tried google and the USC IFC site and neither had the whole house.

Go to Google Maps, type in the address of the house, and look at the house at STREET LEVEL. You should be able to see the entire front of the house.

[VandalSquirrel]

I'm so waiting for these people to be charged as sex offenders in California by some eager prosecutors, maybe even go after the photographers for disseminating porn. Let's hope the unidentified woman was over 18! I'm also quite surprised that there is access to the roof that isn't attached to an alarm door. On most campuses you wouldn't want people able to access a roof for safety reasons, suicide, or a sniper.

My campus newspaper recently had an article where people discussed having sex in public with their full government names attached to their quotes. I wish the article would have mentioned the student conduct and city/state/federal sanctions that would come with being caught. I'm sure the world knowing they want to bang on the roof of the Kibbie Dome, since Ludacris has already taken dibs on the 50 yard line while Vandals make fun of Boise, is going to put them right at the top of any job applicant pool. It isn't that they talked about it, it is that they used their real names and the student reporter didn't change it to a pseudonym either.

Of course journalism is what's on Sarah Palin's degree from the University of Idaho, so take that as you will.

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

I'm also quite surprised that there is access to the roof that isn't attached to an alarm door. On most campuses you wouldn't want people able to access a roof for safety reasons, suicide, or a sniper.

Honestly, it's not that difficult to get roof access. I will take my own campus as a prime example. MIT has a long-standing tradition of hacking, which comes in two aspects: the more public aspect of doing stunts like putting campus police cars on top of the Great Dome, and the more private aspect of just plain getting into spaces people aren't supposed to get into (which includes roofs, steam tunnels, abandoned elevator shafts, etc.) Incoming freshmen can participate in "Orange Tours" where they are taken into some of these forbidden areas with the assistance of experienced guides. (And, yes, you can be arrested if found in a forbidden area. MIT CPs aren't just rent-a-cops - they have to serve on the police force of an actual town or city before being hired, and they have the authority to arrest people.)

But I digress.

I would imagine that, after the "cocksman" email, the national officers of the fraternity felt they had to make an example of the brother "doing the deed" in a public place where he and his partner were easily caught on camera and he was so easily identifiable. People do stupid things when they get drunk (has it been established that either or both of them was drunk?). There's a certain thrill in gaining access to somewhere you shouldn't be, and I imagine that having sex in said place would be icing on the cake.

IMO, they also should have expelled (or at least reprimanded) the originator of the "cocksman" email (assuming they are not one and the same). I've read the full text of the email, and it was disgusting, to say the least.