BUZZA practical joke turned to pandemonium at the University of Virginia this week, where the threat of a dorm room raid sent students into a tizzy, dumping alcohol and texting warnings to each other like wildfire.
“The “#UVAdormsearch” and “#operationcharlottesville” hashtags on Twitter became a forum for second-hand accounts of students being taken to jail and a place for people to join in the hysteria as students hurried through dorms to dispose of alcohol in dumpsters,” reported The Cavalier Daily student newspaper Tuesday.
“As a flurry of panicked students circulated news that student dorm rooms were being searched by Alcoholic Beverage Control officials Monday afternoon, first-year College student Meredith Markwood came to the realization that what had started as a practical joke played on her by a friend had created school-wide chaos,” according to the newspaper.
