Look, this is silly. The U has never given a flying you-know-what about the binge-drinking student parties that make my neighborhood a riot zone many weekend nights (and quite a few week nights) out of the year. The U has never cared how many residents' sleep is ruined by student partying.

And the cops don't care all that much about falling-down-drunk undergrads driving cars (way over the speed limit) through my n'hood during and after these giant parties. They can't waste valuable police time on it. They have more important stuff to do. Call them AFTER there's a crash and/or injury, that's their take.

Yet all of a sudden they get all bent out of shape about Tent U and claim it is about "disturbing the neighbors"? oh, someone give me a chair before I fall on my ass laughing. The neighbors were a convenient excuse for "disciplining" the kids -- because for once they were actually doing something political and constructive, instead of just getting idiotically sozzled and throwing up in public.

Guess that tells us what kind of "civility" really matters to the admins. Screw the neighbors, just don't challenge the State.