Rum Raiders

A Prohibition bust remembered

by Greg Dooley

posted 2/24/2011

During the early hours of February 11, 1931, male students living in five fraternity houses on the U-M campus received unexpected guests--police officers who searched every room for alcohol.

Coming just before the annual "J-Hop," one of the biggest parties of the year, the raids turned up around fifty bottles of whiskey, gin, and wine. Nearly eighty students were arrested, including the captain of the football team, the president of the student council, and the sports editor of the Michigan Daily.

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