U-Md. Heightens Effort to Bottle Up Excessive Partying

By Jenna Johnson

"It's 10:30 on a Thursday night in College Park. The weather is warm, homework has yet to pile up and thousands of students are getting ready to drink."

"Also out are 34 officers from the University of Maryland Department of Public Safety, caffeinated and ready for a long evening."

"In the next four hours, they will bust more than a dozen parties of varying sizes, confiscating kegs and pouring out bottles of liquor. They will check parking garages for rocking cars, tell students not to stand in the street and call ambulances for the handful of intoxicated students they find passed out."

"They will make only seven arrests. ..."

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