Because administrators would not discuss details of the trip or its aftermath, information has come mainly from interviews with 16 students and several parents. Students say dozens of their classmates made easy work of getting drunk during the trip, despite Quebec's legal drinking age of 18. Their hotel was just yards from a street lined with bars, and the 80 students on the trip were free from about 10 teacher-chaperones between 4 and 10 p.m. According to students, parents and alumni, drinking is a tradition on the annual trip. The twist, they say, came on the second night, when three girls stripped in a bar, one doffing everything save her socks.
Students say one of their peers was caught with marijuana.