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.
"Pictures?"
Please spare me having to see a bunch of bull dykes.
Freaking at the Wellesley Bike Dykes Ball..
Shel Silverstein
Man, every time I see that photo I have to look hard. I don't think I have ever seen any more disgusting, nastier young 'women' than those two fat hairy leftist lesbo skanks. They are the most repulsive human beings I can imagine.
Just came from an Alan Jackson concert at the Houston Fatstock Show and Rodeo. It makes me sick that I have something, anything in common with that.....person.
What is the tuition? $35,000-$38,000 a year? Parents must be happy.
Oh, sure. People who drink are people who drink. The fact that it was a Dyke Ball with lots of lesbians present doesn't mean we can infer that any were drunk. But as Howie Carr said this afternoon on WRKO, if it had been a regular school dance with heteros there, or a republican party, school authorities would have been screaming bloody murder. And the Boston Globe even left out the name of the dance, that it was a Dyke Ball. Double standard or what.
Poor baby, you clicked on a thread about alleged lesbian depravity, and there were a few pictures of lesbians. Boo hoo hoo hoo.
Which do you prefer. Bull dykes or diesel dykes?
Why aren't real life lesbians ever as good looking as the ones on the DVD covers at Blockbuster?
Must be something they ate.
Where's belly girl when you need her?
One for the list, of you can stand it. Just a little window into Ivy Leaque college life.
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