While parents drain savings to send their kids to college, the institutions are serving up two things: party-school degeneracy celebrated by influencers with millions of views, and organized stalking of conservative students by campus leftists with access to class schedules. Both stories broke the same week. Neither is an accident.
Marco Graci, a 20-year-old junior at Sacred Heart University, is touring 40 campuses to rank the nation's party schools on a 1-to-10 scale, documenting frat debauchery for TikTok and Instagram. His spring break video from the University of Tampa pulled 1.4 million views, the New York Post reported. What does he film? Drunk students jumping through tables. Couples emerging from porta-potties at South Carolina tailgates. Guys who dump beer on their faces instead of drinking it. Cheating on long-distance partners. Graci told the Post he stays sober to document it all — and hopes to make this his career, maybe "the 30-year-old still going to college parties."
Meanwhile, at the University of Utah, a student named Shaiban Khan was caught sharing the real-time locations of three College Republican students — including chapter chair Riley Beesley and vice president Rylie — with a protest group chat. Khan, reportedly in the country on a student visa, is a student government senator with access to class schedules through his position in the Associated Students of the University of Utah, according to HotAir. When Beesley confronted him on campus, Khan ran.
The tracking was discovered after someone noticed a message in a leaked group chat announcing the Republicans' whereabouts with a coy "Don't ask me how I know." Khan has since scrubbed his social media. No word yet from university administrators on disciplinary action.
The Post framed Graci's tour as a lighthearted quest — "Herculean," they called it — and buried the implication that American higher education has become a staging ground for binge-drinking spectacle. HotAir rightly identified the Utah stalking as what it is: a safety threat enabled by institutional access, with a foreign student on a visa weaponizing student government databases against political opponents.
Put the stories side by side and the picture is clear. Universities that shrug at porta-potty hookups and table-jumping drunks find the bandwidth to let student government operatives track conservatives across campus. The same institutions that can't enforce basic decorum at a tailgate can somehow maintain surveillance infrastructure for the ideologically motivated. Graci's party rankings get millions of views and press coverage. The Utah College Republicans get hunted.
Parents writing tuition checks this fall might ask what exactly they're paying for — and which students their money is protecting.
The open question: will the University of Utah expel a student who used government access to stalk classmates, or does the administration consider that just another campus tradition?
