Townhouse Apartments, Blarney Blowout March 2013 (6 arrests that year)
So I could have guessed that Umass would use a Friday -- the day when mainstream media takes a siesta -- to release the long awaited $160,000 Ed Davis report, analyzing the largest disturbance in recent town history, aka the March 8 Blarney Blowout.
Town center March 8, 2014 10:00 AM
Amherst police arrested 55 "college aged youth while UMass PD arrested only three.
But I still think tomorrow's press conference will get respectable media exposure -- as well it should.
5 comments:
$2909.09090909090909 (sort of funny decimal) per arrest to pay a guy to tell everyone what we already know. Nice living if you can get it.
well, the title kinda tells what they took out of it...
Still a proponent to bring back some party scene. Stragglers have done so much damage the past few years. Amherst College has no problem supplying resources for on-campus partying.
Umass is a much different beast. But a coordinated effort to hold small parties and have tenants preempt police assistance might go a long way than the current by-laws. I could be wrong, but the current situation won't lead to anything better.
Beware the ides of Homecoming. Hopefully all of us in town can coordinate valuable information to the Umass/party community as a whole to prevent anything drastic this time around.
A whole lot of finger pointing.
Anyone who expected the report to seriously reprimand UMass or to vindicate the Amherst Police's response does not understand the political stakes involved.
It's Kum-Bai-Ya and the arranging of deck chairs all the way down, so don't be surprised when trip insurance is not available.
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