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Call Dean Wormer: Graduation party at restaurant owned by 'Animal House' actor gets out of hand... Mequon - When the party animals at Delta house were facing the wrath of the Faber College dean and campus ROTC commander Doug Neidermeyer, they decided on a now-classic response: "Toga party." Twenty-eight years later, a group of high school students decided the best way to celebrate graduation would be in togas - with a party at Libby Montana restaurant in Mequon. It seems the party planners chose Libby Montana because the actor who played Neidermeyer in the movie "Animal House" - Mark Metcalf...

Police Arrest Man Wearing Only a Toga 1 hour, 53 minutes ago MORGANTON, N.C. - Police captured a man wearing only a toga while he sped away in a car with women's underwear inside. Michael Sean Ostrander, 33, was arrested Monday after allegedly breaking into the home of a Burke County woman and making off with some of her clothes. The woman told police she was visiting a neighbor when she heard her burglar alarm go off and saw a man flee in a car. The woman gave chase and called the police, with the state Highway Patrol and local...

Members of a UW-Madison fraternity face more than $94,000 in fines after police busted a Halloween party at their house. Police gave citations this week to 11 Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members for the Oct. 28 party, where fire inspectors counted more than 600 people in a house that has a capacity of 99.The university opened an investigation on Friday that could lead to sanctions against the fraternity and the people involved, Interim Dean of Students Lori Berquam said. The costume party's 11 hosts face fines of more than $8,000 apiece for 266 violations, most for illegally running a tavern...

Members of a University of Wisconsin fraternity face more than $94,000 in fines after police busted a Halloween party at their house. Police gave citations this week to 11 Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members for the Oct. 28 party, where fire inspectors counted more than 600 people in a house that has a capacity of 99. The university opened an investigation on Friday that could lead to sanctions against the fraternity and the people involved, Interim Dean of Students Lori Berquam said. She said the group's national chapter also could yank its charter. The costume party's 11 hosts face fines...

List of the top party schools as compiled by the Princeton Review: 1. University of Wisconsin-Madison 2. Ohio University-Athens 3. Lehigh University 4. University of California-Santa Barbara 5. State University of New York at Albany 6. Indiana University-Bloomington 7. University of Mississippi 8. University of Iowa 9. University of Massachusetts-Amherst 10. Loyola University New Orleans

TELEVISION It's not pretty, but 'Animal House' defines a generation BY GLEN GARVIN ggarvin@herald.com LOS ANGELES -- Dean Wormer: Who dumped a whole truckload of Fizzies into the swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween the trees are filled with underwear; every spring the toilets explode. Marmalard: You're talking about Delta, sir. Nobody had ever seen anything like it. It was rebellious, it was anarchic, it was gross. It had kids getting wasted and puking and being promiscuous, sometimes all at once. Its heroes were drunks and slobs and Peeping Toms; its villains...