Pissing in the bushes isn't THAT bad.

College students like to drink. That is a fact of life. But at Georgetown University, one of the nation's finest post secondary institutions, partying it up and making bad decisions has become a livelihood. According to Kinzie, the students at Georgetown University are outraged over new campus wide policies concerning partying and drinking. Now, she further states, police will arrest any student caught violating the new policies, such as drunk and disorderly, public urination, or underage drinking, rather than issuing citations as they have in the past.

I can understand the outrage by the students in this case. They are already paying thirty thousand dollars a year to attend the prestigious university, and they already spend an inordinate amount of time studying, the students obviously need some sort of release come weekend that can take their minds off the rigorous academic life at Georgetown. Having the students register their parties with Georgetown Authorities and then having those authorities issue subsequent limitations on parties is akin to sacrificing underclassmen to the Donkey God.

These ideas are also a waste of departmental resources. District Commander Andy Solberg said, "This is not something we want to do. I think everyone in the community wants cops out here patrolling for real criminal behavior"(qtd. in Kinzie).

There are also a bevy of intangible problems that will arise with the new policies. By limiting students rights on campus, those students will merely move off campus for their extracurricular activities (Kinzie). Students in Kinzie's report are worried about the safety of traversing the distances between off campus bars back to their on campus housing, and I don't blame them. Washington DC is rife with criminal activity, criminal activity that should be handled by police officers whom are now handcuffed with arresting innocuous undergraduates because of a little public urination.

There are positives in this war on College Student partying. If I was a resident of Georgetown, walking outside to grab the paper in my bath robe, I certainly wouldn't want to stumble across a bumbling 19 year old Pre-Law student passed out in my gutter with urine dribbling down his leg. People are jumpy enough as it is