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Partly in response to concerns about student drinking, City Councilor at Large Stephen J. Murphy is proposing a keg-tracking law that would allow Boston police to keep tabs on where kegs are being used...
...quell a riot with pepper spray. At a recent meeting convened by city politicians and police to investigate the causes of Snelgrove’s death, police said that one of the major crowd-control problems that night was the number of inebriated students who spilled out of keg parties from off-campus houses. This tracking law would help police plan for similar concentrations of kegs in the future...
...police have had problems with keg parties in residential neighborhoods,” Murphy said. “It’s our duty to protect public safety and quality of life. Something needs to be done and this is a necessary first step...
More than 10 states and various local jurisdictions across the country have instituted similar keg-tracking legislation. Tracking kegs would allow police to focus more attention on houses with multiple kegs, which are often the source of problems, Evans said...
...here to be a moral presence,” said Nicholas P. Vines, a tutor from Leverett House. “But there’s not so much pressure on us because of the anti-keg rules.” He added that the rules might make the day “more boring” than usual, but that students were still having a good time. “They’re here for school spirit, but won’t pay much attention to the Game,” he said...