Campus Living Cracks Down
Forty-three students are in violation with Campus Living rules after breaking up an on-campus party last Thursday.
FITCHBURG - "Forty-three," the officer speaks into his intercom last Thursday, "There's forty-three of them." This is what a passing student overheard while walking past Mara Village and the subsequent police cruisers on Fitchburg State campus, and it is also the number of students involved in a on-campus party that was recently broken up by police.
"I had just got there," says Matt Krol, a senior at Fitchburg State, "and a friend had handed me a drink that I only had time to take one sip out of. That's when the cops showed up." A student in Mara 6 decided to hold a party thursday night exclusively for friends, but that's when the other forty students, mostly freshman, decided to show up and join the party. "At first there was just one of them," another student said about the police, "But then before you knew it, everyone got busted."
And indeed, everyone did get "busted," as punishment is pending for each student caught at this party. The local police are setting an example to incoming students, that there will be a zero tolerance policy of drugs and alcohol on campus, and are intent on enforcing it.
Campus police are not available for comment on the situation, but it is widely believed that they are attempting to crack down on any parties on campus, as well as the surrounding neighborhood. The local police are setting an example to incoming students, that there will be a zero tolerance policy of drugs and alcohol on campus, and are intent on enforcing it.
"It was only 9:30," says Steve Buja, another Fitchburg senior, and resident of the Mara building, "When all these freshman just appeared out of nowhere." The freshman class this year is the largest incoming class ever to Fitchburg State. That might be the reason why extra action is being taken against these new students, in order to try and curb any kind of behavior deemed inappropriate or illegal on the school's campus.
The 43 students involved will most likely be either taking alcohol courses, doing community service and will most likely be forced off campus. For new students, this may pose a problem, for the older students involved, this is merely another inconvenience, as expained by Krol, "I'm getting to old to have to deal with this stuff."