Stop the Presses: Marijuana Found in Frat House — and not ANY Frat House

By Friday June 9, 2006

NBC5.com – Education – Police Raid Frat House That Inspired ‘Animal House’ — Yes, this is the frat house that inspired the moive Animal House. FInally got them bad boys good, eh? Golly they actually found some weed! Who would have ever suspected such a thing? Good work coppers!

Authorities arrested one student on drug possession charges but said that was not the focus of the search. Nineteen-year-old Kemper Pierce was charged with possession of a controlled substance, believed to be marijuana.

Fourteen officers searched the Alpha Delta fraternity house for more than five hours Thursday. Police removed 10 crates and two bags of evidence, along with two sledgehammers, a videotape and a computer, according to the Valley News of Lebanon.

found by Dennis Duffner



10 Comments
  1. Xwing says:
    6/9/2006 at 9:41 am

    The rest of them were put on double-secret probation.

  2. Gig says:
    6/9/2006 at 11:01 am

    I want a cite that proves that that is really THE “Animal House.” Half the schools in the country have a Frat that claims that title.

  3. Uncle Dave says:
    6/9/2006 at 12:03 pm

    From a webpage on the film:

    Co-screenwriter Chris Miller based the National Lampoon short stories that gave rise to the film on his experiences in a fraternity at Dartmouth, from which he graduated in 1962:

    “I was at Dartmouth in the early sixties and I belonged to the outlaw fraternity on campus at that time (Alpha Delta Phi). I always said that one day I was going to write the story of that experience. So, around 1974 or so, I started writing it as a novel and then the novel got cut up into chunks, which became short stories that ran in the Lampoon. The stories were documentary. They were cinema verite. When the script was written, the actual incidents that the two stories were about were the fraternity initiation that I underwent ( The Night of the Seven Fires) and the experience I called Pinto’s First Lay.

  4. JimR says:
    6/9/2006 at 1:56 pm

    These cops intend to prove in court that smoking marijuana leads to using harder stuff…

    that’s why they took the two sledgehammers.

  5. JSFORBES says:
    6/9/2006 at 4:36 pm

    This is your brain.

    This is your brain on drugs.

    This is your brain on Sledge.

  6. Podesta says:
    6/9/2006 at 9:57 pm

    I’ve heard that “Animal House” was partly inspired by the University of Oregon fraternities. It was shot in Eugene. The local music scene was the inspiration for “The Blues Brothers,” too. John Belushi modeled his character on Oregon bluesman Curtis Salgado. Curtis is still performing, though he has severe health problems related to his previous lifestyle.

  7. Mike Voice says:
    6/10/2006 at 9:48 am

    I’ve heard that “Animal House” was partly inspired by the University of Oregon fraternities.

    It wouldn’t surprise me that there were several influences, since several people were involved in making the movie.

    With Chris Miller getting only “co-screenwriter” credit in Uncle Dave’s link, I would want to read his original “chunks” in NatLamp to see how much was changed on the way to the Director’s copy of the screenplay.

  8. Shadowbird says:
    6/10/2006 at 9:55 pm

    Sledgehammers?

    They’re not drunks and drug addicts; they’re WWE addicts.

  9. Neal Saferstein says:
    6/11/2006 at 4:18 pm

    Frats?

    Drugs?

    Is anybody in shock?

  10. joshua says:
    6/11/2006 at 10:16 pm

    the only thing that surprises me about this is that they didn’t find a whole basement full of marijuana.


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