A plan is in place to discourage drunken disruptive behavior during the so-called Blarney Blowout this Saturday in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Hoping to repeat the success of last year, there will be a free concert, campus visitor restrictions, and an increased police presence. These steps were taken after rowdiness in 2014 at off-campus parties resulted in 70 arrests and national embarrassment to the state’s flagship public university.
WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill talked with university spokesman Ed Blaguszewski.
