Dear Editor: Once again, the city of Madison has compensated for its inability to control a minority of the yearly Halloween crowd by cracking down on the Mifflin Street Block Party like overprotective chaperones at a middle school dance.
The pettiness of 267 arrests and thousands of dollars in anticipated fines for a subdued and shortened event with no serious incidents is ridiculous. Underage drinking should not be a campus issue. College students are adults, and the absurd drinking age forced down Wisconsin’s throat by the abstinence-obsessed Reagan administration deserves repeal.