Eugene 911!

Miscalculated after-parties are becoming something of a tradition at Collegiates. Let us not speak of Stanford 2004, where at least one other guy and I got tossed out of a club. The Davis 2005 committee rented out a terrific space on campus only to be forced to host it DRY.

 And now this year.

EPD gives more than 85 drinking citations this weekend -- Oregon Daily Emerald

Of course, making the news can be considered something of an accomplishment. Such things are not without fallout, though. If you were there or simply very sympathetic, do help.

At least until then, however, I'd say things were going swimmingly. It was kind of a slow start, probably because our very hospitable and unsuspecting hostess apparently had no idea what she had agreed to. When we got there, no alcohol was to be found and the residents by all appearances were ready to settle in for a mellow Saturday night of TV and Gamecube. Within what must have been minutes, the garage was a dance floor, tubs of punch were mixed, and the occupancy of the house went up by at least two orders of magnitude.

That all came to a screeching halt at around 11:30 when Eugene's "Party Patrol" unit hit. These guys wasted absolutely no time screening folks for age and alcohol and issuing 22 underage drinking citations. For those of us from the free republic of Berkeley, this was quite a shock.

Especially in our condition, there wasn't much that we could do, so we hopped the van back to the hotel. After lounging around at our hotel lobby for a bit, I turned in. At the very least I'd get a decent night's sleep for the drive home.