<p>You’re overstating the problem. I’ve spent time at and around a few larger college towns and VT is somewhere in the middle of the pack when it comes to drinking. Even if allowing binge drinking parties at their complex does put community members at risk it still isn’t illegal, so I still don’t know what you think extra security would do.</p>
<p>You specifically mention pregaming as a problem. Pregame drinking generally is not at the large parties that extra security would catch. It is in smaller, quieter groups that there would be no excuse to bust up. Also, if they are going bar hopping afterwards presumably the party goers are over 21 and are not committing a crime at any point in the night, so any harassment from security would be unwarranted.</p>
<p>You also say that drunk driving and vomiting in the streets is an ‘all too prevalent problem.’ Are there any statistics that show that Blacksburg is any worse than any other large college town in drunk driving? Also, in my three years of party-going I’ve only witnessed throwing up in the streets a handfull of times, and to my knowledge they’ve all been at bus stops.</p>
<p>At any rate, these parties are happening in private residences, and if there are no noise complaints no security company would have the right to enter the private residence. Any apartment that made people agree that a private security company could enter their apartment on the suspicion of heavy drinking, which again is not illegal, would lose business and rightfully so. We are not a nanny state. If you want to curb drinking problems the only real ways to do it off the top of my head would either be to extend bus hours on weekends by a half hour or hour and extend them on Thursdays, or through education.</p>