Halloween In Athens

If you ask anybody around the country one of the top parties in America most of the time Halloween in Athens will come into the conversation. This party is by far one of the most popular parties around and it is also one of the most fun. The only problem is when you take a campus of about 20,000 people and then throw in another 50,000 random people you are bound to have some problems. I usually wouldn't mind everyone coming down for the weekend but it seems like everything gets trashed and the people trashing it don't have to deal with it, students do. Maybe the town of Athens should limit the people they let into campus that weekend. There would be a lot less trouble and a lot less violence. To me when all of these people come into the campus it takes away the family feeling we have here. Instead of seeing people you know all the time you just see random drunk idiots making a seen. Don't get me wrong, the party is a great time without a doubt, but not to sound cocky but it's just another weekend for us OU students. We do this all the time, this time we are just dressed up. Athens does a great job of keeping tabs on the campus making sure nothing to crazy happens, but it would be a lot easier if they just reduced the amount of people coming into town. Having so many people all the time really just gets annoying to. I am from Columbus Ohio and i go to something called Red, White, and Boom every year. It is the fireworks show the city puts on every year and it is held downtown. It is pretty much one of the craziest things that goes on. People from all around the city or even the state come to see it and there are nearly hundreds of thousands of people. It really takes the fun out of it though when you can't walk without running into someone. That is the same thing here on campus, all those people in a little place is just not fun.