PSU as a party school

Although Plymouth State my not be the number one party school like Penn State we do have many of the same problems with partying around our campus.  As a student here I have been witness to Friday classes that nobody comes to.  I've seen the kids who get drunk and urinate in public, and I've seen ones get arrested for doing so.

However i also disagree with the community and schools response to Plymouth making the party list.  I've heard from both teachers and from students that there were less kids running around the streets all loud, and less kids being loud and causing problems in the streets in past years before the police began enforcing more strictly.

By the police kicking students out of houses and frats they are just putting the kids drunk and stoned on the streets looking for other parties, which usually means walking all over the town on foot being loud and annoying. How is this helping the situation for the residents of Plymouth or making it any safer for the students?  Putting a large number of young people on the streets drunk, stoned, or both is not exactly safe.  It splits up groups who are looking out for each other, and walking around on the streets at night in that condition isn't exactly safe on its own.

The first week of school after quickly throwing on a nice shirt and a light jacket I headed out for the night with my new group of friends.  As freshman who had barely met each other, many of which were yet to meet more then a select few upper class man getting into a party was more than a challenge.  So as many freshman at many schools across the country do, we headed to the nearest frat.  Once we entered we realized there were actually well over a hundred kids packed into every room of the first two stories of the frat and shortly after packing into the frat the police arrived.

After the police kicked the contents of the building out we found a long train of students heading across campus and across residential areas to the local pizza places; PHOP and Latenight.  Even then, before i realized how much of an effect the parade of college students who nightly headed across campus back and forth between parties and restaurants had on the community, i saw that the police were being ineffective.

I am not sure if there really is a correct response to irresponsible drinking, under aged drinking or the things that are caused by them; but the steps being taken currently are ineffective and if anything making matters worse the students and no better for the community.  What happened that first week i continue to hear stories about happening every single night of the weekend, and even on many Thursday nights.  Students on the streets is no safer or better for the students then the under aged drinking or house parties that continue to go on to spite the attempts to tame them.