UCLA Fraternities Are Partying Too Much Since NCAA Win, Police Say : Campus: LAPD sets up meeting. Student leader says it is unfair to blame all 20 houses for the rowdiness.

Concerned about a continuation of rowdy partying since UCLA won the men’s collegiate basketball crown, officials with the Los Angeles Police Department and city attorney’s office plan to take up the issue with representatives of UCLA and its fraternity houses.

The most widely publicized disturbance occurred April 3, the day the Bruins beat Arkansas in the NCAA basketball final. A wild celebration by 5,000 people in Westwood Village drew 250 police and ended in the arrest of 15 people, one on misdemeanor charges and 14 for failing to disperse.

But Los Angeles police were also called to Westwood twice last weekend to break up large parties on Friday and Saturday nights. The party Saturday was held by two fraternities, Sigma Chi and Kappa Alpha Psi, to celebrate the basketball championship.

Rumors that Bruin basketball players would attend drew about 300 students to the party, which filled the Sigma Chi house to overflowing and spilled onto Gayley Avenue, drawing complaints from neighbors, police said.

To discuss ways to stop such disturbances, Los Angeles police and the city attorney’s office this week requested a meeting with representatives of UCLA’s fraternity houses, its police force and campus administrators. The meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday.

“The problem is continuing disruptions in the area that have required large responses of police officers,” said LAPD spokesman Lt. John Dunkin. “What we are striving for now is education and accomplishing a willing compliance with the law in regard to what dispersal means.”

UCLA senior Mike Chao, president of the university’s Inter-Fraternity Council, said it is unfair to blame fraternities for post-championship rowdiness.

“I would have to admit that when police are responding to fraternities, the fraternity is responsible,” Chao said. “But to indict the entire system of 20 fraternities, I think (that) is unfair. . . . This particular incident with the NCAA championship was a once-in-20-years thing. There was complete pandemonium.”

Ed Fimbres, a lawyer with the city attorney’s office, said he will tell fraternity and university representatives that the city will take drastic measures if the rowdiness is not curtailed.

He indicated that the city would, as a last resort, even go as far as filing a civil lawsuit to shut down the fraternities for being a public nuisance.

University administrators and campus police say they will help the LAPD secure assurances of better behavior from the fraternities, which are housed in privately owned apartments off campus.

“Nobody wins when the LAPD has to go on tactical alert,” said Winston Doby, vice chancellor of student affairs at UCLA. “It’s expensive for the police and we’d like not to have situations where that happens.”