Posted on 03/07/2005 4:54:51 AM PST by billorites
A ``creative black tie'' evening at the annual Dyke Ball at Wellesley College ended in the emergency room or infirmary for 11 party girls who drank the night away Saturday before the school-sanctioned celebration sponsored by a lesbian, bisexual and transgender group, school officials and students said.
This is the second time in two years that preball boozing has marred the wildly popular tradition at the women's college where revelers don anything from shorts and ribbed tank tops to Saran Wrap, corsets and, for the men, drag-queen costumes and tuxedo thongs. Alcohol is not served at the party.
The 11 students, some of them underage, were taken from dormitories and the party site at the Keohane Sports Center Field House to the school infirmary and several area hospitals for treatment of alcohol intoxication, said college spokeswoman Mary Ann Hill. It's too early to tell if the tradition, which attracted 2,000 students, could be called off next year, but Hill said ``all options'' are on the table.
``While the party was not out of control, some people's drinking was out of control,'' said Hill. All the students are expected to recover and will appear before the college's alcohol hearing board.
``It's just about doing what you feel like doing, but because people party beforehand, it gets a little risque,'' said a Wellesley senior who attended the party, but refused to give her name.
Under the ``creative black tie'' rules, baseball caps, khakis, jeans and polo shirts are off limits and drag dress is encouraged for the men, students said. Cellphones and cameras also aren't allowed.
``They don't want pictures because there are scantily clad people,'' said junior Liz Abbey.
College officials tried to quell preball boozing by delivering pizza and hot chocolate to dorms and pushing an alcohol-awareness campaign that began after last year's party, when about a dozen students were rushed to area hospitals after heavy drinking.
Students said the school follows a ``better safe than sorry'' policy when it comes to alcohol intoxication.
``They have a policy of taking someone to the hopital if someone is (vomiting),'' said Wellesley freshman Elizabeth Harrell.
Officials of Spectrum, the Wellesley lesbian, bisexual and transgender group sponsoring the party, could not be reached for comment yesterday.
``People who drink are people who drink. There's no correlation with the group,'' Hill said.
Whatever happened to tear gas and batons?
Is there anyone out there who doesn't believe that college today is a pathetic joke?
Glad my daughter is attending Gorden.
Please no more pictures!
And parents send their kids to Wellesley and pay all that tuition for what? What a joke higher education has become.
NO.
What a waste of good pizza!
May we have a moment of silence for this supreme sacrifice...
I guarantee they all had anchovies. :^)
I had a friend at my college who transferred there for one year. She left our school crazy about guys and worked hard to keep her appearance sharp, attitude positive, etc. By the end of the year, she was going to be the president of the gay dorm.
When Hillary became "President", I knew that she was probably a lesbian and that they had a "different" martial contract from the fact that she went to Wellesley and looked just like all my friend's new dyke friends.
Grove City College.
Thanks for that reference. It's interesting to see her use some of the same pre-1992 techniques as she re-invents herself for 2008.
Now I need a drink!
A fish rots from the head.
Wasn't there a brief invasion of Wellesley students on FR a few years back, in response to a series of articles that were posted? As I recall they were all banned pretty quickly.
Somebody needs to tell the college by buying all the pizza and hot chocolate for them just gave the partiers more money for booze. Don't tell me that money is not an issue with those at Wellesley because most of them have learned from their parents to use other peoples money and spend your money on things you really want.
You'd have to be drunk to go to the party in the first place.
Don't they understand that -
"...It's just about doing what you feel like doing ..."
Fascists!
Didn't Senator Hillary go to Wellesley?
The pizza was eaten...between large swigs of beer.
And the hot chocolate? They loved it too...spiked with liquor.
Typical drunken college behavior.
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