Three UW Students Fined $86K For House Party

[Chicago_inferiority_complexes]

We lived up by the car wash and Taco Bell that year but remember getting over there for a few great parties in that area and on Michigan.  The next year we lived in one of the row houses on Michigan and had our own festivities (but no 100 kegger)

Which row house? I know a few Scoopers who where around those parts...

[ChicosBailBonds]

Which row house? I know a few Scoopers who where around those parts...

23rd and Michigan

We were the 2nd one furthest to the west if my memory is still in tact.  LOL.

http://www.mapquest.com/mq/1-l_yA

[tower912]

Spooky.   I was in that one in 87-88.    We had 6 of us sharing the two upstairs apartments, which had a door connecting them.    Occasionally awkward when you had a successful Saturday night, but we managed.    The summer I moved in, there was a woman sexually assaulted in one of the first floor apartments in that building.   And yeah, we knocked down the fences between about 4 of the houses (one was a frat) and had about a 50 kegger with a band in the backyard.  Made our money back + and got shut down around 1 AM by the po-po.   They were cool, though. 

[Chicago_inferiority_complexes]

23rd and Michigan

We were the 2nd one furthest to the west if my memory is still in tact.  LOL.

http://www.mapquest.com/mq/1-l_yA

Hmm that's a little further west than I had thought.

It's interesting how Michigan has pretty much died off as a party street, at least since I was in school.

[Brewtown Andy]

I remember this. If I recall correctly, the cops received a tip about somebody having a weapon, and that's why they charged in that way.

That's my recollection as well.

We had a lot of parties in school, never had any trouble. With this said, we went out of our way to be extra nice to Public Safety, which I think helped. They were pretty good dudes to us, and as long as we were respectful and relatively safe, they gave us a wide birth.

I actually really appreciated the work those guys did. They even told us one time: Our job is not to ruin your fun, it's to keep students safe. If the students are safe, and we don't really care what you are doing.

I heard a few years later that the policies were a little more strict, which is too bad I guess.

The key is to not let your party spill outside.  If nothing's outside, there's nothing to grab anyone's attention -- not Public Safety, not random people you don't want coming in, and definitely not MPD to send in 18 year old police aides to see how you're operating the party.

[Ari Gold]

23rd and Michigan

We were the 2nd one furthest to the west if my memory is still in tact.  LOL.

http://www.mapquest.com/mq/1-l_yA

I lived there too! tried to bring Michigan back as a party area as best I could by my roommates were so against it -lame-

[reinko]

Why did you live with such squares Ari?

[tower912]

What are the odds of 3 scoopers living in the same house at different times?

[Brewtown Andy]

What are the odds of 3 scoopers living in the same house at different times?

Given the boom of available housing, increasingly smaller every year.

[77ncaachamps]

That would be 47 parties. 

That sounds about right 

You're forgetting to adjust for inflation.

In Reinko's case, it might be more like 125+ parties.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Hmm that's a little further west than I had thought.

It's interesting how Michigan has pretty much died off as a party street, at least since I was in school.

Things have changed dramatically since I was there. Renee Row opened my Senior Year, which drew many more people back closer to campus.  Humphrey Hall was completed my Junior year (I think), same thing.   When I first started, we had MU students being bussed all the way from 26th street at "West" or whatever it was.  That is probably not even remotely an option today.

[Ari Gold]

Why did you live with such squares Ari?

I didn't know they were squares until after I signed the lease.
Throw up on the floor of the bathroom once and everyones up in Arms.

[MUBurrow]

Its cool to see the stories of these parties (and whether they were busted) coalesced into a thread.  When I was in school - I graduated a couple of years ago - the stories of tickets in the thousands and thousands of dollars always kind of kept us on our toes with our parties.  The buzzword was to avoid the illegal tavern ticket, where we heard that the police fined a certain dollar amount to the hosts for every kid drinking there.  With evidence that we were charging, so the story went, the people didnt even need to be underage to count in the tally.  This mythical penalty was the main reason we eased off the gas pedal a little after our first MPD warning.