Why neighbors are fed up with Mac parties

"People aren't finding a discreet corner. They're peeing in people's  yards and on their property, and not stopping when neighbors ask them  to. Peeing on someone's house?  Come on.  That's above  and beyond inappropriate behavior."

-- Macalester College Dean of Students Jim Hoppe on a recent increase in neighborhood complaints of student partying. He said he has already received six serious complaints in the first two weeks of the semester alone.

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