Don’t throw out the couch change with the burnt couch. In other words, don’t let the actions of a few individuals ruin Spring Weekend for the rest of the students at UConn. The tradition of partying and flooding the Storrs campus has been going on for 50 years, and it is my belief that every college student deserves a chance to be at a party like that.
It’s not just about getting drunk and going crazy, although yes, much of it is about that. It’s also about seeing all of your classmates, in one place, at one time. It’s about making friends and having stories to tell for years to come. It’s about the feeling that, for once in your life, you were part of something special, that only you and your classmates in college could really understand.
Yes, it needs to be safe and there need to be limits. But there is security all over the campus, and DUI checkpoints on almost every road around Storrs. No matter what, there are going to be parties and idiots who take things too far. But things have calmed down in recent years as the number of police at the event has increased. Let these kids have their moment in the sun—before they go off to the real world and sit at their desks reading “news stories” about the festivities and reminiscing about the good old days.
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