11-28-2018, 03:00 PM
(11-28-2018, 10:37 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(11-28-2018, 10:22 AM)Spokes Wrote: It's not a hate for students, it's a hate for the curent situation.
You can try to do an organized event, I just don't think it's going to work. If you're a student who's under age, are you going to go? Nope, you can't. Do you want to pay for the price of drinks when you're used to just buying and bringing your own? Nope. Even if you did create a legitimized event, you'd still have a large population of students doing what's going on on Ezra just elsewhere.
No one's advocating bullying students out of the city, but what's going on now doesn't work in any situation.
It's never even been tried, the whole city has gone straight to "shut it down"...I remember how this feels as a student. ANY solution that is ONLY "shut it down" is by definition not working for all the people involved. Suppressing people rarely works out well, best case, you drive away a lot of students who might otherwise have settled in the region. The point of creating an event is to guide the situation, instead of suppress it, and, plenty of students under age go to other festival events in the city--heck, there might be some who are glad there are other activities from drinking.
Come on Dan. This is what you said, and it's a rather profoundly uncharitable interpretation of the situation. The whole city quite plainly has not gone straight to "shut it down". The fact is that they've done quite the opposite and have tolerated the situation for a long time now and have even tried to provide (a rather poor) alternative. Rather than discuss the substance of what people have said, you keep on painting people as if they're advocating for some sort of war on students, which couldn't be further from the truth.
The fact is that right now there are thousands of people having an illegal party on the Ezra Street, which isn't really a tenable situation in the long term. If it could somehow be made a sanctioned and legal event that can safely operate, I think most people would advocate for that. There is the issue, though, that a large number of partygoers are underage and wouldn't be allowed at any legal and licensed event. That said, I think what you're proposing is probably along the lines of the best option. If you have a credible alternative to the Ezra St. parties that attracts enough people, the parties would die, or at least be more manageable. Illegal file sharing didn't really go away with online music providers and streaming, but it's diminished considerably. The same approach might work for Ezra Street.