Authorities raided the Dartmouth College fraternity that helped inspire the movie Animal House, carrying of ten crates, a computer, and other items. Investigators refused to say what the search on the Ivy League campus was about.
Court documents on Thursday's raid were sealed, and the Hanover police said only that the Alpha Delta house was part of a two-year investigation and they they expect to make arrests. Alpha Delta members turned away a reporter at the door yesterday.
One Dartmouth junior reported that Alpha Delta can be "a pretty crazy house" whose members are proud of their party reputation. But he added that Alpha Delta is not the only Dartmouth fraternity with such a reputation.
Animal House portrayed fraternity debauchery at the ficticional Delta House, whose members repeatedly thwart and embarrass the Faber College officials determined to banish them. One of the writers of the 1978 movie, Chris Miller, was a 1964 Dartmouth graduate and a member of Alpha Delta.
Police Chief Nick Giaconne said the investigation began in October, 2004, following an incident at the fraternity, which is owned by a group of its alumni called the Dartmouth Corporation of Alpha Delta.
George Ostler, lawyer for the fraternity brothers, would not comment except to call the search a "major interruption."
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