I mean, in all honesty, you had to open the paper today and say "no shit!" As in "State Patty's causes rise in crime," well no shit! Or "Revelry leads to slew of citations," no shit! Are you really surprised that people got ossified and arrested on a made up holiday that's sole purpose it to get obliterated drunk? Really? Still surprised? Amazing.

So that was the first thing I looked for in today's paper. How many people got arrested during the State Patty's day celebrations. Well, according to The Collegian, there were about 45 arrests between 8am Saturday and 8am Sunday which included "... five for DUI, six for disorderly conduct, seven for public drunkenness and 17 for underage drinking, police said."

Clearly State Patty's Day brings out the best in people, as this following run down of an incident at Tony's Big Easy (and a later incident at The Wing Zone)attests to:
"An individual, whom police declined to identify because charges had not been officially filed, had urinated onto the South Pugh Street bar. He will be charged with disorderly conduct, criminal mischief, public drunkenness and open lewdness, police said.
Then hours later, at 2:22 a.m., police said a man with the same name (whom police presumed to be the same person) was arrested for public drunkenness after he refused to leave The Wing Zone, 433 E. Beaver Ave."

Brilliant!

In The Collegian article, Safeguard Old State Student Relations Director Joe Veltre said he doesn't think this weekend's events will reflect poorly on SOS. Perhaps not, but seriously, SOS really has to just come out and call this day what it is and stop trying to get the university to recognize it as some sort of student holiday. In saying that, this weekend surely didn't do anything to help State Patty's day gain any fans at Old Main. Not that that's necessary.

Look, everyone knows what the day is, so let's stop playing around. Even a guy from the Michigan Daily knows what the day is.  From the State Patrick's Day Live Blog (why didn't I think of that?): "the student body wanted to uphold its reputation as one of the country’s top party school. So it created a fake holiday because St. Patrick’s Day will occur during spring break."

Consider the reputation upheld! Or no, not upheld. What do you call it when 45 students get arrested in 24 hours? Oh right, tarnished.