Drunken students should pay for aftermath costs
We citizens of Eugene, who pay the taxes for the sheriff’s department and their men, and for the police department, are getting very upset at having to pay for huge amounts of police force action, when at Halloween, (or any other time of the year) the police and all their men have to go into drunken, rioting parties done by the students of the University, break them up and restore peace and order.
We citizens of Eugene and Oregon do not mind if you have parties; however, when you cost Eugene, and its citizens, a lot of tax money to put your drunken, rioting students in order because the University is not willing to discipline them themselves, then we have to draw a line. I am aware of several groups, right now, who are very angry about this and may start to take legal actions against the University and its dean, because they are not handling drunken students properly, and are not throwing them out of the school, or at least paying for their discipline themselves. This may result in the citizen groups actually suing, or demanding in some legal way, money from the University to pay for the huge amounts of taxes we have to spend to provide police and sheriff’s men to discipline the drunks who get “cranky” from the University.
I really do suggest that you actively inform a lot of your student groups that this may eventually come down, and their students who act out, will be thrown out of Eugene, or have their parents pay a lot of money for police actions. I am only warning you about this because it would be much better to nip this action in the bud, rather than have lots of costly legal work and a lot of conflict between the University and many of its taxpayers’ groups. I suggest you talk to some of the student’s groups, as I do not know just what is in the works right now; I just know something is going to “give” in the near future.
It would be a lot better if you had a dean who had some kind of discipline and it did not end up with legal conflicts this way. I am sure most of the students are good kids, and this would not happen if there was some kind of “standards”.