The University of Georgia is widely known for being a huge party school. The administration claims to hate this image, but their actions show otherwise. They actually WANT you to party, because if no one is partying/drinking they won't have anyone to arrest. And when they arrest you, THEY MAKE BANK. Court costs, probation, and pre-trial diversion fees are ridiculously high.
UGA and Athens-Clark County police do nothing to discourage the wild scene downtown. They never attempt to shut down the bars or punish the bouncers for letting in thousands of underage kids each night with very obvious fake ids.
Instead, they pursue individual kids on a case-by-case basis. In my opinion this is extremely hypocritical. If they actually wanted to stop the partying, they would simply walk into the bars, start carding people, find that probably 90% of the people in each bar are underage, and then shut the bar down and take away their liquor license. However, that wouldn't make money for Athens-Clark County or for the University, so they don't approach things that way.
Additionally, a very simple solution would be fore the university to CHANGE THE BUS ROUTE. Currently, buses pick up loads of people right in front of the freshman dorms well past midnight, and deposit them downtown right in front of the bars. Where does UGA really think all those freshman are headed, dressed to the nines, after midnight??
This is just brief explanation of the unbelievably hypocritical and predatory practices at the University of Georgia. They lay the trap, reel you in, and then you're arrested in the blink of an eye.
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