Milwaukee police officers swept through five parties near the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee over the weekend, issuing 232 alcohol tickets totaling nearly $30,000.Let's be fair to the cops and the neighbors, this is the risk you run when basically operate illegal taverns in your home, or you are drinking at such a place. I knew it when I was in college. So did everyone else. If the neighbors want solutions to this problem:
1) ticket the landlord when there are repeat offenses at a location. Unfair you say? I guarantee it will have an impact.
2) ticket the renter not only for underage drinking and running a tavern without a license, pass an ordinance that allows for eviction due to violating zoning and fire regulations.
3) Lower the drinking age to 18 and let everyone drink on North Avenue. From personal anecdotal experience I can honestly say that when the police started rigorously enforcing the drinking age on North Avenue it drove us to private homes on the East Side.
Dumbest idea:
Baldwin also said there should be a cap on UWM's enrollment of 27,000 and a rule requiring freshmen to live on campus.Unless of course she wants to tear down Downer Woods and build a fourth residence tower.
University officials are studying a cap on enrollment, but the campus can't accommodate a typical freshman class of 3,400 with its 2,700 dorm beds, said Amy Watson, community coordinator for UWM.
