The Muncie Police Department increased its manpower Friday and Saturday nights to crack down on the number of alcohol violations on and around campus. Citations were issued to more than 100 people, 87 of them from a Saturday night party at the Lamda Chi Alpha fraternity house.
Though Muncie may be proud of this effort, they need to take another look at the weekend's events.
Busting one party on a quiet night does not mean the effort is working. It means the police are lucky they received a call about a noise disturbance.
Maybe the e-mail notifications and the posters to students or the letters to their parents made people think twice about their actions involving alcohol. It might have kept students responsible enough to refrain from illegal activity.
Maybe students decided to act responsibly before the campaign started.
Ball State and Muncie officials can high-five at the seemingly successful effort, but they need to take a second look. Ball State students are more responsible than Muncie officials are stereotyping them to be. Students attending this university are not all drunken maniacs looking to disturb the peace. They drink no more than students attending any other university this size.
There is a reason students are allowed to attend Ball State. They have judgment skills. They are adults.
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