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Harvard students looking to rent party space from the Cambridge Center for Adult Education will face intensified scrutiny from the city’s License Commission following the recent surge in large party requests from student groups at the College.
An upswing in requests for party space from Harvard students drew suspicion from the Commission about whether the Center was properly vetting party proposals for safety and propriety, said Elizabeth Lint, the executive director of the Cambridge License Commission.
The Commission, which must approve a license for any group looking to hold a Cambridge event that charges admission and serves alcohol, will be reevaluating the Center’s viability as a party space for an unspecified amount of time. Licensing officials are intent ensuring that future party proposals...
“What triggered the reevaluation in my mind was one group that requested a license for a party with over 200 people until three in the morning,” said Lint, adding that the Center’s rental space has only a 153-person capacity.
Lint also said that the License Commission had recently appeared to be receiving unregulated party applications.