Paraphrasing - Georgetown Students Bristle At New Restrictions on Parties by Susan Kinzie

What do you think about when you think of college? One of the things that comes to my mind is parties. Parties, which occur all over the college campus, are one of the main events that students take advantage of to get involved in their college. Unfortunately, most parties go hand-in-hand with drinking. So, what if, in an attempt to crack down on drinking, the parties came with restrictions? Georgetown University has begun to implement crowd limits and registration requirements on parties that occur in it's housing areas and the D.C. police has begun to scan the streets for students to arrest due to party-related violations (Kinzie). Furthermore, according to Susan Kinzie, parties that take place on the campus are "limited to 25 or 35 people... or 50 in a back yard or on a roof" and students must ask for permission to have a party, in which they can only bring one keg, by 10 a.m. Consequently, angry students have begun to take their parties to residential areas nearby (Kinzie). Now, not only are the students angry, but so are the people who live in the residential areas. Students are angered by the sudden regulations, which have caused an uproar on campus, resulting in the creation of a facebook group called "Work Hard-Play Hard, GU Students for Stopping the Madness" (Kinzie). In addition, the people who live in the residential areas are bothered by all of the noise caused by the parties, which now take place nearby (Kinzie). So, by enforcing these regulations so suddenly, is Georgetown causing more problems than it is solving? Are they being effective in their goal to spread safety? Most nearby residents and students would say no. Some students, like Camille Kolstad, believe they were much safer on campus (Kinzie). Yet, despite all of the opposition, school officials and the D.C. police stay firm to their belief that something must be done. Police commander Andy Solberg when addressing the issue with drinking in campus parties said, "It's gone on too long now (Kinzie)."


Works Cited

Kinzie, Susan. "Georgetown Students Bristle At New Restrictions on Parties." Washington Post. 8 Sept. 2007. 23 Feb. 2009. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090702816.html?nav=rss_metro/dc>