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Current discussion at BlogWilliamsburg.net: 3-Person Rule Editorial by Alex Ely in Flat Hat I’m posting the following article from the Flat Hat in it’s entirety. Written by senior Alex Ely, it is a thought-provoking history of how the College may be contributing to the off-campus party problem, which is at the heart of why residents do not like student housing. It strikes me that, unfortunately, Mr. Ely seems to place too much blame on the College and not enough on the students who host and/or attend these parties. He says in the third-to-last paragraph that one ought to look to the Alcohol Task Force for “a cause-and-effect analysis of why some city residents...think that students are to blame for off-campus social events.” Students are to blame. They are the ones who make the choices. Grow up, kids! You say you want to be treated as adults but you continue to place blame on the adults and institutions around you, rather than taking responsibility for your own actions. You choose to party. You choose to make noise late into the night, to leave trash around the street. Until you choose to do something different, to behave in ways that respect our homes, we residents will continue to push back. Hear me loud and clear on this one: We residents of Williamsburg do not dislike you students. What we dislike is the noise, the mess, and the disregard for our homes. These are our homes. Most of you have never had a home. Someday you will and then you will likely understand why your behaviour at these parties bothers us so much. Below is the article, or you can read it in its original context by clicking here.  Read the full discussion: http://blogwilliamsburg.net/index.php/wcp/discussion/250/