Achievement Reaches New High at Days Inn
Boston Daily is a big fan of academic achievement. Whether students are building robots or, as we learn in the new issue of Boston magazine (seriously, isn’t John Krasinski reason enough to buy it at your favorite newsstand now?) developing green concrete, we support them in their efforts to create things we never thought possible.
Including the geniuses of the Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity, who managed to inflict a stunning $25,000 in damage to the Days Inn in Allston. [Link via Bostonist.]
Indeed, these young people did what once took the all the members of Guns N’ Roses and their roadies to accomplish.
[D]ozens of people from the Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity were allegedly going from room to room and destroying items. While officers were trying to clear the hallways, the various groups continued to run from floor to floor to avoid the police.
But the most impressive thing is that these fraternity members managed to wrack up a $25,000 damage bill at a Days Inn. The total value of the generic pastel paintings, scratchy comforters, and standard-definition televisions is about $50 per room (rough estimate). It took hard work and lots of shots of Goldschlager to wreak that much havoc, and we salute you. Now, grow the hell up. Please.
April 6th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Hi,
I’m sorry to see that you believe the incredibly impossible claim in the hotel manager’s statement. As you said, the estimated total value of ONE room is $50. So that would mean the brothers of Lambda Phi Epsilon completely destroyed 500 rooms to incur $25,000 worth of damages. I know a few Lambdas myself and although this may be a biased view (although I see no reason to bias against this fact), I have been told that there were roughly 300 brothers attending this convention. In addition, we cannot assume that every single brother can afford their own room at the hotel, so we must take into account that they may have stuffed a room with more people than it was meant to accommodate (let’s say 4-6). Also, maybe some brothers may have opted NOT to stay at the hotel.
But let’s assume worst case scenarios. Even in the unlikely case that every brother had their own room, and that all the attending brothers stayed at Days Inn, the maximum damage they could have caused would have been worth $15,000. See where I’m starting to go with this?
Let’s now create a more realistic scenario including the factors mentioned above including this one: A good deal of the brothers attending the convention were hosting the convention, being part of the Boston University chapter, which means they would be staying in their dorms/apartments and not at the hotel. Also, they would need to stay sober, in order to watch drunk brothers as they are the hosting chapter. That’s about 40-60 brothers. Assuming that there were only 40 BU brothers and 10 brothers who opted to stay elsewhere, that means there would’ve been 250 brothers staying at Days Inn (hereby known as “hotel brothers”). Taking into account that the hotel brothers, in attempt to save money, stuffed the rooms with (let’s take the minimum) 4 brothers per room, that would mean 63 (rounded up from 62.5) rooms maximum were occupied by Lambda Phi Epsilon. That means the brothers (no matter how many BU brothers or non-hotel bros were in Days Inn that night) would only have access to 63 rooms. That means the maximum damage that the brothers could have inflicted would be worth $3150. And that’s only assuming that they destroyed everything in each of the 63 rooms.
That’s awfully far from $25,000. Don’t you think?
It seems that the hotel exaggerated the damages by almost 8 fold.
I could be wrong though! $25k worth of damages could’ve been caused that night. just that the hotel manager just found an incredibly convenient scapegoat: Lambda Phi Epsilon, who just happened to be hosting their brothers in that hotel.
So please, grow the hell up and get both sides of the story before you even consider attempting to damage an organization’s reputation. Seriously.
Sincerely,
Me.