11-23-2018, 05:19 PM
(11-23-2018, 05:10 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(11-23-2018, 05:04 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: You give the solution in your comment. The City/UW/WLU instead of wasting 500,000 dollars of tax dollars hiring out of region police to come and try and suppress the event, the city should organize an actual event.
All right, I'm on board with that. Whether it can actually be made to happen though ...
If you mean practically, I think it can, while students like the St. Patty's day madness, if an event was well designed to accommodate the things students want to do, they'd probably adapt quickly.
If you mean politically, I have very little hope, there's far more political motivation to try (and probably fail) to shut the party down instead--this is what drives me crazy, because this drives a lot of the cost, and then people get angry at the students, when the actual injuries/problems are comparable to any similar event. In fact, this attitude makes it more difficult to practically implement it, because it increases animosity. That being said, students are easy, they only have a maximum 4 year memory.