Police have cited the Westin Copley Place Boston Hotel for violations stemming from a Tufts University function held at the hotel earlier this month in which some students drank excessively, urinated in the lobby, and were sent to area hospitals for treatment.
Boston police said in a statement Wednesday that hotel security refused to stop the party, which the school calls its annual Winter Bash, shortly after midnight Feb. 2 after officers “observed numerous individuals leaving the third floor ballroom, many of whom appeared extremely intoxicated due to alcohol consumption.”
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This is not unusual behavior for college students. Anyone who works at a college, (as I do), can tell you this.
Somehow we think of Tufts as " classic" and their students above the rest-
But this incident and the behavior of the lacrosse team at a volleyball match shows the immaturity , just like students at other institutions! Sad for the reputation Tufts HAD
Now, what parent wants to encourage a daughter or son to matriculate at Tufts ?
Quite aside from the trolls described in this article as acting out scenes from 'Animal House', Tufts seems to have figured out how to combine political correctness (removal of a Scott Brown campaign banner from in front of his undergraduate frat at Tufts last fall) with boorish male chauvinism (the lacrosse/volleyball reference above) and micromanagement of students who are assumed to engage in over-the-top consumption of alcohol (Tufts administrators arranged to have extra ambulances at the hotel as well as a medical triage room for the hapless partygoers).
Yeah, Tufts HAD a good reputation. Decades ago.
Citing security for not shutting the party down 10 minutes early is dumb...it would have caused more of a commotion than waiting 10 minutes...seems like BPD just wanted to get in on something after the fact...
They could have cited them for a lot more. Every person that was intoxicated is a license premise violation. It is agains the law to serve an intoxicted person.
I went to college during the '80s and we did our share of partying but I don't recall kids having to be taken to hospitals. This happens regularly at concerts, especially outdoor concerts where kids tailgate. This article speaks more to how kids are dealing with alcohol today than it does about Tufts as a university. I have two daughters in college and hear plenty of stories of what goes on, including guys dropping stuff in girls drinks and then sexually assaulting them when they pass out. All schools are dealing with this behavior. To a certain extent it's kids being kids but it's really out of control right now. We, as parents, have to take a hard look at why this is happening with our kids.