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Perry missed the part about "giving to the poor"
The New York Post, tone-deaf as ever, reports the story with the headline “Columbia Frat Honcho Jailed.” Walter Perry, the titular honcho, is accused of stealing $650,000 from Saint Anthony’s over six years, and has been sentenced to at least 24 months of jail time. It is not clear how the money was obtained, but apparently Perry spent it on “wine, women and song.” His defense was that all of the records which would exonerate him had “mysteriously vanished,” while according to Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Roger Hayes, prosecutors had “rock solid” evidence against Perry. Now the members of St. A’s can sleep a little more soundly within the walls of their “ornate” bedrooms.
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@Anonymous For the actual facts of the case, please refer to this blog entry:
http://blogs.gonomad.com/armchairtravel/2011/12/my-letter-to-the-post.html
@Anonymous I agree with you entirely! Really, the essence of the other posts is that these member students should be morally obligated (really, forced) to give their money to any and all who don’t have their amount of money. All this stuff drives me nuts – it’s like saying they don’t deserve their money, instead anyone less fortunate should be able to request (through guilt) their earnings and be of course handed out whatever money they ask for.
@I am disliking your comment because it fails to follow any coherent line of reasoning in addition to exposing your lack of reading comprehension skills.
@Lol bwog says “Perry missed the part about ‘giving to the poor'”
@Anonymous Incorrect inference! The reference is to Robin Hood. Stealing from the rich, giving to the poor. But only stealing from the rich. Float your mouse over the picture.
@Anonymous Good to know that the expensive living and dining fees ST. A’s members have to pay are being used for such great things! Nothing like (literally) wasting thousands of your parents dollars to keep the 99% out
(Contact Erik Kogut, he’s the president of St. As)
@Anonymous he’s hot
@Meh Why shouldn’t people be able to use their money as they please? Is their membership harming you, or affecting your life in any way whatsoever? Not sure I understand the notion that everything should be open to everybody.
@Anonymous Well, it’s not their money, it belongs to their parents. These kids didn’t earn it, so it’s more of a “look what my dad has achieved” club.
@Anonymous 7 people liked this? guess we’re gonna need a time machine and 7 condoms
@Answer to question St. A’s is an elite society here at Columbia, similar to a frat, except that you have to be filthy rich and pretty to get in. Rumors are that you have to buy a roundtrip ticket to China and tear it up in front of a St. A’s member in order to get in.
@Anonymous that’s stupid. all tickets now are digital. even if you rip up a ticket it’s still refundable.
silly rumors.
@alum This rumor still exists? When I was a freshman I was told it was a plane ticket to Europe (not one bought from a discount website with 2 layovers and a seat in coach).
@alum I heard it was flying to Japan, buying something ridiculously expensive, flying back, then destroying it, all within the weekend.
@Mythbuster That’s a stupid/undying rumor. It doesn’t actually happen.
@Tell us more
@... naw i heard they interview you in some bourgey restaurant in morningside. you’re given an opportunity to talk about yourself over the meal. when the meal is over it is determined if any of the neighboring tables requested to be reseated during the interview, if so, you’re in!
@Anonymous what is St. Anthony’s? the high school on long island? please clarify…
@Alum Couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of folks
@Embezzlement Reaches The hallowed halls of the 1%!!! not that it wasn’t there before…
@first recaptcha included word “change”.
This one includes “rebels”.
Maybe it’s secretly an intelligent learning algorithm that is trying to understand the content of the posts?
@Anonymous “wine, women, and song”??? Who is he, Dionysus?
@Anonymous that was my first thought too lolz
@CC '12 This implies someone at the Post read the classics, which I frankly find unbelievable.
@read the article Actually the prosecutor said that, so not someone at the Post
@Anonymous perhaps the prosecutor is a fan of “A Chorus Line”! hahaha
(see “goodbye twelve, goodbye thirteen..”)
@Anonymous (sorry – “Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love”)
@how Does St. A’s have $650,000 to steal?
@Anonymous Lol, what, did you think the coke just manifests every other weekend? These kids have money, not summer-internship-at-JP-Morgan money, either. The real kind. And the young alumni are still really involved in the house system.
@Anonymous Instead of pointless drum circles at Barnard, why doesn’t Occupy CU occupy St. A’s? Seems like a pretty good proxy for rich elitism and how it’s bringing our country down
@Anonymous there hasn’t been a single drum circle at barnard, but i agree, st. A’s should be targeted.
@Anonymous there was on thursday