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...heat seems to be off now. But it was pretty uncomfortable for a while, what with Cronin's half-empty on Saturday night and the Casablanca equally devoid of its usual group of sociables. The ironic thing about it all was that the crackdown had nothing to do with college excesses or even with bars. A fourteen year-old boy was found in very bad shape due to the effects of a quart of Scotch from a local package store. The Alcoholic Beverage Commission moved in, everywhere, with a vengeance...
...dark dreary hours before dawn, sinister little men in midnight-blue prowl the streets, armed with silver shields and orange parking tickets. The midnight marauders have been working overtime in recent days as part of the University's drive against illegal student parking. The crackdown, unfortunately, seems to stem not so much from a desire to solve the parking problem as it does from the hope to appease the traditionally irate Cambridge Council...
This latest crackdown has been attributed to the Cambridge City Council's vehement attack on the College for its failure to provide adequate parking facilities. Toohy, however, explained that this was a "normal thing for this time of the year. The streets have to be clean for Commencement and we have to get some of the cars off the street...
...crackdown on students' overnight parking violations shows that the University has finally become aware of the problem, Vellucci said before he joined the other eight councilors in unanimously defeating reconsideration of his proposal of last week...
University Police have been virtually "ordered" by the Administration to begin an intensive crackdown on all student parking violators, it was learned yesterday...