City board seeks to curb alcohol abuse
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers Baltimore’s efforts to address underage drinking and “college nights.”
- The News-Letter reported that Baltimore formed the Liquor Advisory Committee and that its first policy would remove “18 to party, 21 to drink” rules from local venues.
- The paper reported that these policies targeted college students and were known as “college nights.”
- The article says committee chairman Leigh S. Ratiner called allowing people under 21 into bars “an invitation for juvenile fraud” and said underage drinking was more severe.
- The reporter writes that Power Plant Live stopped admitting underage patrons and that shuttles to Charles Village stopped; Carrie Bennett said organizations could provide transportation if they followed city rules.
- Bennett said she had seen students leave buses unable to walk and described events with “thousands of loud, drunk kids.”