This particular houseboating trip (obviously) wasn’t officially sanctioned by the school, but Oregon VP of student life Robin Holmes said that the national office of one fraternity was suspending all of its activities “until the situation is addressed.” 
 
 Trips to this area have become an annual event for fraternities and sororities all along the West Coast.  In response to an incident on the weekend of May 21 in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Northern California, the University of Oregon issued the following statement from Robin Holmes, vice president for student life: 
 
 The manner in which the Shasta-Trinity forest area was left is disgraceful. One national fraternity organization, Lambda Chi Alpha, has taken the commendable step of suspending all of its UO chapter’s activities until the situation is addressed. Park rangers now have to clean everything up right before Memorial Day weekend.
– The University of Oregon is investigating after as many as 1,000 students "trashed the everliving s--- out of Lake Shasta," as Deadspin puts it. Hordes of college students visit Slaughterhouse Island at the California lake during a weekend in May each year. "What was different about this one is they left behind an incredible amount of trash," says a rep for Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Some 60 houseboats carrying up to 1,000 students were docked at the island—which has no garbage facilities or bathrooms—over the weekend. Park officials later found 90 abandoned tents, sleeping bags, coolers, trash bags, and University of Oregon gear, per OregonLive. Photos posted to Facebook show everything from beer cases to flip flops, with plastic chairs and garbage strewn in the lake. The forest rep tells the Register Guard that 10 cubic yards of garbage had been removed from the site as of Monday, but it will be days before the island is clean and ready for Memorial Day visitors. UOregon's VP of student life, Robin Holmes, says the school "does not sponsor or condone" the annual trip to Slaughterhouse Island and the mess left at the site is "absolutely unacceptable and disgraceful." The school is "actively investigating the situation and will take action as appropriate." Activities at UOregon's Lambda Chi Alpha chapter have been suspended by its national organization "until the situation is addressed," Holmes adds. In one viral photo, an abandoned cooler is seen decorated with the Greek lettering for the fraternity along with the phrase, "Do you wanna do some blow man?" (The trash at this national forest resulted in a jail sentence.)