Police Arrest Penn State Partyers
Local police have arrested 57 Pennsylvania State University-Altoona students since the start of the fall semester a few weeks ago—a sharp increase from the three students arrested at this point last year, the Daily Collegian reports.
Logan Township Police Chief Ron Heller says that most of the arrests have involved alcohol violations and that township meetings have been packed all summer with residents complaining about students littering and throwing loud parties. "Penn State was named the No. 1 party school," Heller says. "I don't know if they're trying to live up to that title or not."
Junior Eric Sales says that police are unfairly targeting parties to send a message to the Logan Township community. "They're screwing over the kids who want to have fun but are still taking their college career seriously," Sales says. "It's unfair. There can be a party and there are 10 people drinking and having fun, but the police will come up there and arrest everyone."
Searching for a college? Get our complete rankings of America's Best Colleges.
Tags: colleges | Penn State University | Pennsylvania
Tools: 
Share
|
| Comments (5) | Print
Reader Comments
What is "underage"?
What exactly is the "legal age of Adulthood"?
Does anyone know?
At 16 you may drive, and there fore make adult life and death decisions.
At 18 you may vote, die for your country in the military, sign legal contracts, smoke and have sex.
At 21 you may drink
At 24 you may have your own case opened at the assistance office, unless you get pregnant, or married before that.
So when does a person legally become an adult? And if it is at 18 then why is a person considered a second class citizen until 24?
If it's 21 as I always thought it was, then why do we let children drive, vote, die for us, enter into legal contracts, smoke and screw freely at 18???
It should be all one age, you are either a minor or an adult with full rights and responsibilities, anything else makes people second class citizens, which is illegal as far as I know.
trust or insurance
It is not for police to decide whose guilty and whose not in a party they pretty much have to treat every body the same or they could be open for law suits. Hey the attorneys needs jobs to.
our laws are not as lenient as they were at one time, For one, Judges lost the ability to be lenient because of mandatory sentences and minimum sentences.
If students would form political groups have meetings and go to city council meetings they can begin to have a say in our government, Something older generations gave up. Then maybe they can stave off the police state we seem to be headed for in our big cities. I am in a small town where I can walk up to a police car and they say “hows it going” instead of ”How can I help you” but even then laws are more strict and policies are stricter, and police cannot decide in many cases to arrest you or not they got to do what they are told unless they were the one who caught you.
Insurance as most people know did not only mess up health care insurance it has messed up many parts of our lives and stole many of our freedoms and we blame it on the police or “The Government” instead of the real culprit which is the insurance companies. So in away the insurance companies are our new government where the people have little or no say.
Just my opinion
Don D. Brock
Drinking alcohol with "groups" of people
leads to saying stupid things and getting in some kinds of trouble with people of the opposite sex and several other kinds of trouble with people of the same sex. Some kids wise up on this at 14, 16, 18, 20. Others don't---many not until decades later, after they have lived enough of the alcohol drama of accidents, adultery, breakups, fights, abuse, job loss and life failure. By then, of course, for too many there is also the bugaboo of chemical addiction to deal with as well.
As for the police? They have their own motivations which are unfortunately rooted in "catch-em-doing-something-and-run-em-in".
The proper use of law enforcement should be to catch whomever is selling/furnishing the alcohol to the underage kids to begin with.
For instance, one has to imagine that a virtual lake of beer from John and Cindy McCain's beer distributorship in Phoenix has found it's way to young people over decades of "distributing" in Arizona. How many of John and Cindy's direct customers get arrested? Enough?
Nah. That's why kids still get the stuff at Penn State (or in Arizona) and everywhere else.
advertisement
