South Kingstown on Aug. 26 announced fines on University of Rhode Island students who attend off-campus parties and on those who host them. The town manager’s executive order is designed to curb COVID-19 outbreaks among college students as they return to the URI campus.
Anyone hosting an off-campus party in town will be fined $500 and those attending such parties will be fined $250. The order will impose liability on landlords, tenants and parents if they have co-signed a lease.
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island condemned the executive order, calling it an “extraordinary abuse of municipal powers.”
What do you think?
South Kingston is most definitely doing the right thing and Providence should do the same thing, given the number of college students in Providence and those living off campus In Providence. Providence College students living off campus, particularly those living in housing owned by the “02908 Club” are emblematic of the problems with student parties during this pandemic. I observed an absolute disregard for people’s safety in late Spring with the numerous parties in lower Elmhurst along Eaton Street between Pinehurst and Douglas Avenues. The students were brazen in their disregard for the Covid-19 social distancing and mask-wearing rules imposed by the Governor’s executive orders. And their parents were even worse, organizing a graduation parade down Eaton Street. The PC administration was no better, doing nothing to reign in the students. SHAME ON YOU PC. Let’s see if PC and its students will step up to the plate and act as responsible members of the Community!