Nearly 50 Arrested in Pair of Melees

Nearly 50 people were arrested after two disturbances in the Ohio University town of Athens. One melee involved a brawl between fraternities, police said. The bigger confrontation involved about 1,000 people in the town center outside bars that cater to students, police Chief Richard Mayer said. When the bars closed at 2 a.m., people began throwing bottles, eggs, road flares and bottle rockets. The other disturbance, an hour before the bars closed, involved 30 members of the Pi Kappa Alpha and Phi Kappa Tau fraternities, police said.