2008 Woodie Awards
Lights Out, Party's Over
Thousands Celebrate, 51 Arrested During Spring Weekend
Christopher Duray
Issue date: 4/28/08 Section: News
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Between Thursday and Saturday, police arrested 51 people, with most of the arrests taking place on Friday and Saturday. Forty-two percent, which comes to 21 people, of those arrested were UConn students. The charges varied between such offenses dealing narcotics, breaches of peace, DUI, forgery and criminal impersonation. In one case, police arrested a student who had a powerful pellet gun in his vehicle.
In 2007, police arrested 61 people, but only 19 of them were students.
UConn police estimated that at its peak, 12,000 people showed up to X-Lot to stand drinking with their friends. There was no official estimate of people at Celeron, but UConn Police Lieutenant Buddy Conroy said that while there were less people there than were at Carriage House Apartments on Thursday, the number was easily in the thousands.
According to Emergency Service personnel present at X-Lot, ambulance efforts on Saturday were too widespread to accurately tell how many attendees were hospitalized, but that the majority of the injuries seemed minor.
On Thursday though, while many were treated for minor injuries and released at the on-site triage center, Mansfield Fire Chief David Dagon said that there was one hospitalization after a girl was hit in the face with a thrown beer bottle. Dagon also said that firefighters had to respond to a series of small debris fires at Celeron that were quickly extinguished.
The damage of Spring Weekend was not limited to criminal charges and physical injury however. After dumpsters at Willington Oaks Apartments were set on fire Wednesday night, residents of the complex have all been charged $100 per apartment to compensate for the damage. It is not known if the fires were started by Willington Oaks residents.
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j
posted 4/28/08 @ 12:08 PM EST
theres no way 12,000 people showed up to x-lot. I was there since it was starting out, and it seemed about half as much as last year.
Barney Rubble
posted 4/28/08 @ 1:10 PM EST
More "priceless" PR for the University. There are thousands high school students and their parents who are crossing UCONN of their lists because of Spring Weekend. (Continued…)
Max Tiverstool
posted 4/28/08 @ 6:35 PM EST
kinda agree with "HELLO" on this one.
News Flash:
Drinking occurs on all college campuses. The CT media (which hate only having one large university to talk about) harps upon spring weekend and make it into something that its not. (Continued…)
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