Mission Hill party report

In the first place, not all college kids get into mischief, even when they're having fun. I know that when I went to college, I had lots of fun, but managed to avoid getting into mischief. That may well have had something to do with the fact that I took afew years off after graduating from high school to decide what I wanted to do with my life. When I graduated from high school in the late 1960's (1969, to be exact), being female was definitely an advantage back then; I didn't have to worry about being drafted and shipped off to Indo-China to either kill or be killed.

However, I was still quite young, and I managed to avoid getting into mischief. As another poster pointed out, often enough these kind of loud, drunken parties that many college students tend to have just as often as not tend to slide into criminal behaviours such as vandalism and assaults, etc. If the schools are clamping down harder on students who are that destructive, well, good for them. I, on the contrary, do not feel sympathetic to college students who are old enough to know better and yet act destructively and disruptively enough to get in trouble with the law and jeopardize their status in school, or end up with a record that could follow them for the rest of their lives and possibly cripple their chances for meaningful employment after school.

Also, openminded, as for your suggestion that longtime/lifetime residents of the area, whether they've got children and families or not, who justly complain of these ultra-loud drunken parties and antagonisms from these students when their neighbors are fed up move out of the neighborhood that they're lifetime or longtime residents of, that's just totally stupid--and uncalled for, as is the notion that these kids "need someplace to be young". The students should be disciplined, and not act like spoiled brats. Sorry, openminded, but anybody who's old enough to go to college is old enough to have consideration and respect for their neighbors. Therefore, I call bullshit on both your suggestion that fed-up longtime/lifetime residents move out of their neighborhoods, and on your opinion that "these kids need somplace to be young".