61 CommentsSome updates this afternoon about Operation Ivy League: according to the New York State Department of Correction, Michael Wymbs was discharged today and Adam Klein’s court date has been moved from January 18th to tomorrow. DNA Info is reporting that Mark Williams, the national rep for Psi U whom Bwog spoke with yesterday, is headed to campus today to interview the 30 members of our Psi U chapter. Williams commented that Columbia owns the house, so Columbia controls the fate of its Psi U Chapter. The IRC doesn’t seem to be in trouble; some students just received an email asking to apply to live in the IRC next year.
Update, 4:50 p.m.: A spokesman for the Department of Corrections has confirmed that Wymbs was released on bail today. The four other students are still in custody at the Manhattan Detention Center on White Street, not at Rikers. The Department of Corrections did not comment on Klein’s plea bargain and we are waiting on comment from other sources. Bwog has confirmation from an anonymous source close to AEPi that the fraternity brothers held a meeting last night at a JTS dorm rather than their own house, apparently due to fears about surveillance.
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@anonymous We finally know what one of the frat’s dues are!!!! They always tell us “it’s so complicated, we can’t really give you a number” bullshit, but they just want to keep it secret.
Go to photo 10 of the slideshow and look under “Treasurer”. Dues for this frat are $220 for initiation and $450 a semester.
http://www.dnainfo.com/20101208/upper-west-side/frat-reps-headed-columbia-investigate-busted-houses/slideshow/popup/49199
@Anon http://a072-web.nyc.gov/inmatelookup/inmateDetailAction.do?bookcasenumber=3601000321
Apparently Klein posted bail
@sting From CBS report: Authorities said the investigation relied heavily on a youthful undercover officer who posed as a drug middleman for another college outside the city.
@uhhhh i’m not the biggest fan of frats, but it’s a bit ridiculous that the frats and “fraternity culture” are getting so much shit about this, when they’re known much more for underage drinking and other sketchy activities. it seems to me that the drug scene is a lot more of a hipster thing than a fratty thing….
so how come the IRC isn’t getting in trouble, and wymbs’s EC suitemates aren’t being held accountable, while the frats are getting berated by the press and investigated by their national chapters??
@Anonymous Wow, so this “Stephan” guy (if that IS your real name…. IT’S NOT!) looks like a real winner. Suhhh-weet pix, bro!
http://gawker.com/5708551/accused-columbia-frat-boy-drug-dealer-threw-da-sickest-party
@Emm The messages people are posting on Mike’s facebook make it sound like he has been diagnosed with a terminal disease, not arrested for drug dealing. He did this to himself..
@Anonymous if you were in a situation of similar magnitude I think you’d like some words of comfort too, regardless of reason.
@Alum I’ve been wondering what their FB walls say, but they’re all private so I can’t see
@..I mean, come on he also quit halfway through.
@dfgyhfy http://www.dnainfo.com/20101208/upper-west-side/frat-reps-headed-columbia-investigate-busted-houses/slideshow/popup/49199
@Anonymous http://www.dnainfo.com/20101208/upper-west-side/frat-reps-headed-columbia-investigate-busted-houses/slideshow/popup/49199
@fuck the cops http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwELCNMXR2w
@Harmony Hunter just woke up, what’s going on?
@Alum I don’t know if this has already been discussed, but wouldn’t you think they would know that something was up if their suppliers disappeared (who knows if they knew they were arrested) in Oct/Nov?
@Anon Maybe but even if they did what would they do about it? Didn’t most of the undercover buys happen before that time…
@Apparently Lots of people knew that the frats that were selling drugs were being watched already at the beginning of the semester. If even the people buying from the frat guys knew that they were being watched, why did they keep selling? Seems so stupid.
@alumnus DOC wouldn’t know anything about the plea bargain. You would need to contact the DA’s office or Klein’s attorney for that info, and they probably wouldn’t talk about it before the fact.
Court appearances are open to the public unless ordered by the judge.
The 11K was just the money directly exchanged with the undercover cops. Their over-all drug trafficking is probably a lot higher.
Here’s an investigative story angle: do we know the undercover cops posed as Columbia students, whose identities should have been easily verifiable (CUID, on-line directory, classmate vouching, 1st hand friends), or did they take on the much higher risk of dealing drugs to off-the-street customers?
@alumnus unless OTHERWISE ordered by the judge.
they = Klein, Wymbs, Perez, David, Coles.
@I'm Me Hmmm I wonder if there is a document on WikiLeaks detailing the communication between the NYPD and Columbia….oh wait
@AssangeJr I have a video of the undercover cops performing Operation Ivy League and discussing illicit drugs in one of the fraternity houses. Am in negotiations with various news outlets. Several students/alumni have already seen this video.
@I'm Me Don’t worry we all believe you
@Typical of you to try to capitalize on some stupid footage that will be irrelevant in 2 days.
@Anonymous Bwog, please delete the above comment.
On another note, has anyone noticed how LITTLE money is actually being disputed? 11 grand, over 5 months, split between 5 people…that’s child’s play in the drug world.
This whole thing sounds like the NYPD just wanted to nab Columbia for something, and they did.
@censorship is for the birds.
@cc'11 $11,000 is what they sold the undercover cops, not how much money they made overall. Anyway, isn’t it clear they’re trying to flip them for information on the suppliers?
@yay SET THEM FREEEEEE!!! :D
@no helllll no , after one day? helll no. let the frat boys fryyyy
@Wow... You are a douche.
@yay um i’m pretty sure what happened to them already is punishment enough.
oh, and i banged your mom.
@.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvowygkg43g
@wow this guy is incredibly unintelligent/inarticulate.
@exhibit A on why not to do MDMA/Coke/Acid.
@Anonymous leave acid out of this!
@Anonymous Will you marry me?
@Anonymous awk, that was meant for ‘food for thought’
@Food for Thought MDMA, while certainly unhealthy from a physiological standpoint, is actually less harmful for you than alcohol in terms of active dose / lethal dose and dependence issues. (Source: http://web.cgu.edu/faculty/gabler/drug_toxicity.htm)
And LSD? Again from a physiological standpoint, this chemical is less toxic than aspirin. Active doses are measured in micrograms, and to “overdose” would require taking such an abnormally large amount that any informed LSD user would rightly know that something was wrong.
Our laws can be useful in informing us about what we should and should not put into our bodies. Yet it is important to investigate issues as fully as we can; and when we take the time to do so, we sometimes find that what is lawful does not always reflect what is reasonable.
Heart disease causes hundreds of thousands of Americans to die each year, yet it is lawful to manufacture, sell, and consume hamburgers.
Documented deaths due to LSD, on the other hand, are scarce. And experiments done during the 60’s showed that large doses of LSD could be used safely with little to no harmful side effects. (Source: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/stafford.htm)
Many of our beliefs, opinions, and judgments about our world are not our own but are given to us, rather, by the culture in which we live. As university students, we strive to discover the truth and to deepen our understanding of our reality; and sometimes this requires holding steadfast against the sway of popular belief. We are students, not cultural mouthpieces. Let us not forget this!
@Edit To anyone trying to click the links above, remove the right parenthesis “)” from the address.
@Anonymous try taking a class he is in first before judging? he was in my math class and he seemed like a very smart guy.
@Anonymous agreed he is in 3 of my classes and is really smart. on the bright side, maybe the curve will improve now that he is no longer in it…
@Ghost of William F Buckley Jr A 3.5 in SEAS is very impressive.
@Darth Vader Most impressive.
@very impressive i had to test it, tasted like chicken and was lemon scented
@asdf He has a speech impediment, you fucking asshole.
@Anonymous Yea, because he destroyed his brain on drugs.
@Anonymous just because he sold drugs doesn’t mean he did them
@thats what MDMA and LSD do to you genius, hes a fucking drug addict
@Anonymous what was here? it’s gone now.
@OMG IS HE COMING BACK TO SCHOOL?
@Anonymous The only school he will likely find himself in will be elementary schools, as he warns kids about how your entire life can be turned upside down by selling drugs.
Ivy League degree, gone.
@Anonymous What is the likelihood that Mr. Wymbs is gonna show up and take his finals? I mean, like his lawyer said, he’s applied to graduate schools and hopes that the arrest “won’t derail his plans.” Missing some finals oughta derail his plans… some more.
@its clear that none of these students are going to be allowed back at Columbia.
@klein plead guilty, hence the move-up in the court date. interested to hear the sentencing.
@Anonymous I wanna hear his plea bargain. And I wonder if they’ll sentence him tomorrow or at even a later date.
@is it public? can we go to it? can bwog tape/transcribe/record? huge event.
@Anonymous The plea should be public, so should the sentencing if he is indeed being sentenced tomorrow. However, what he told the police is probably not going to the public.
@Alum It must have been a pretty good plea bargain to accept it so fast right?? and come up with it so fast…
@Anon I would bet they had it ready to go. No way this was gonna go any other way than with a plea deal.
@alumnus Probably means Klein will plead guilty tomorrow.
@discharged? as in released? really?