Half-naked students trash chateau

[SivVulk]

Business students behaving badly - including a group from the U of A - ran wild at Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise on the weekend, racking up police overtime costs and leaving school officials red-faced.

"I am appalled at what I've read about what occurred there," said an outraged Mike Percy, Dean of the Alberta School of Business, who termed the weekend a "fiasco."

"I'm going to be very hard-nosed with our students ... and I will be working with the business students association to get to the bottom of it."

Lake Louise RCMP issued a press release yesterday detailing a series of booze-fuelled incidents they were forced to deal with at the world-class resort during the Western Business Games, which saw 230 students and alumni from six universities converge on the hotel for a weekend of partying.

RCMP Cpl. Mark Kay told the Sun most of the events revolved around drinking and drinking games. Public drunkenness, open liquor and nudity were rampant, he said.

"One of our constables observed a guy walking around with bare buttocks ... just a G-string and his bare butt."

One UBC student was taken to hospital Saturday after he tried to jump from one indoor railing to another and fell two storeys. Police said he'd already been drinking for six hours.

One drunk University of Calgary student was arrested for uttering death threats to cops and Chateau security guards.

Marijuana, magic mushrooms and drug paraphernalia were seized from four guest rooms.

Backup was called in from Banff RCMP, Parks Canada, the Lake Louise fire department, Banff EMS and the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission to keep a lid on the mayhem.

Kay said Mounties alone racked up 36 hours overtime.

The Western Business Games were not a university-sanctioned or funded event, but were organized and promoted by Calgary-based Paradigm Promotion Ltd.

Yesterday, Paradigm's Kevin Collins said the story had been "blown fantastically out of proportion."

"We've received praise from all different levels of Fairmont staff (for how the event was run)," he claimed.

Collins admitted a few "bad apples" cast a shadow over parts the event. He said organizers "weren't aware" that participants weren't allowed to be walking around the hotel with open liquor.

As for the nudity, Collins said some people had dressed up in costumes that showed quiet a bit of skin. Collins also told the Sun that the U of A students' behaviour was exemplary.

Kay said police felt compelled to tell the public about the events because they easily could have ended in tragedy.

"There's a real potential risk when people and events are organized around drinking and drinking games. It's cases like this that can really escalate into a death or serious injury."


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[blackranger]

haha! What were those guys thinking? Oh well...they did it already.