When you’re in college and throw what’s expected to be a great party, it can mean only one thing.Trouble.
That’s exactly what happened at Brian Luciano’s back-to-school party. Now he’s working hard to ensure other
“Kids don’t know how to have fun right,” said Luciano, who's on a crusade to teach students the proper way to party.
On Sept. 14, the 21-year-old junior's off-campus party was raided by police and resulted in a 26 alcohol summonses, the Asbury Park Press reported.
Luciano said he was personally cited for providing alcohol to minors and a noise violation.
But that was just the beginning of his troubles. How harshly would university officials punish him?
Monmouth has strict policies against underage drinking and, like many private schools, its policies apply to students even when they are off campus. "Students violating local and state alcoholic regulations off campus will be disciplined under the Student Code of Comment," according to page 90 of the university's 2007-08 Student Handbook.
Luciano said that school officials decided to put his popularity to good use.
Shortly after his party got busted, Luciano created a Facebook group in which he detailed a long list of rules to keep future parties from getting out of hand.
Rule #6: “When you leave my house, you will do so with no sort of garbage or containers in your hand. I am not an environmentalist by any means and I am all for creating jobs in the form of litter [pickup], but don’t throw your [expletive] garbage in front of the library.”
Overnight, State of
Luciano said that university officials heard about his group and thought that he could use his popularity to speak out against the dangers of drinking. (Asked to confirm this, a university official declined to comment, saying she couldn’t speak about private student matters.) Luciano said he will be working with the school’s Alcohol Awareness program and speak to incoming freshman about the dangers of underage drinking and “how to party safely.”
--Dana Sypniewski
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