The University of Michigan‘s Sigma Alpha Mu, the fraternity partially responsible for $500K in damages to Treetops Ski Resort, has just been told that their chapter will be closed and shut down. Permanently.
Here’s a copy of the statement from SAM’s Nationals.
Truth be told, this move should not come as a surprise to the Greek community. The damages these brothers caused along with the sorority Simga Delta Tau was atrocious. And while the figure $500K in damages is likely inflated, they flat out destroyed the resort.
Treetops Ski Resort had already threatened the school and the fraternity with a lawsuit if the students couldn’t come up with a half a million, so some redditors in the Greek Community believe that this was a power move to get the alumni association to sell the building so Nationals doesn’t have to foot the bill.
The one good thing that you can take out of this is that if you look at the first three bullet points, you’ll notice that none of the brothers ratted on each other.