Senior Pub Nights are back — for the most part.
Senior Class Council announced yesterday that it will not hold any pub nights this semester, but will organize two during the spring.
The council planned the events for next semester after receiving a go-ahead from the administration, which had been deciding whether to authorize any more pub nights for this school year.
In the place of pub night this semester, the student group Senior Club Life will host one more event.
Members of Senior Class Council have met "relentlessly" over the past month to outline a set of rules and procedures that administrators would agree to in return for bringing pub nights back, according to senior C.J. Mourning, the council's vice president of social programming.
These policies are still being "hammered out" by the council and are pending review by administrators, Mourning said.
The future of Senior Pub Night hung in jeopardy after inappropriate behavior — including public urination and claims of alcohol theft — led administrators to put the event on hold.
After Senior Pub Night was suspended, seniors Kevin Wong and Raoul Alwani stepped in, hosting Halloween Club Night at the end of October at Ned Devine's bar in Boston. Though Wong refrained from providing details, he told the Daily last night that he and Alwani, who together founded an organization called Senior Club Life to hold the Halloween event, were planning to host one more club night this semester.
"We have some ideas and will probably let people know pretty soon," Wong said.
The class council plans to meet with Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman, the Office for Campus Life and Tufts University Police Department over the remainder of the semester to finalize the rules that will guide spring semester's pub nights.
Reitman could not be reached for comment last night.
Wong said that he was pleased that Senior Class Council would be able to take the lead in hosting the event.
"It's really their job and I don't want to encroach on their territory," Wong said. "As long as they're willing to do it for next semester, that's great. I'm 100 percent for it."
Many of the Council's policies are in developing stages, but Mourning said that as of now they have decided to increase the amount of buses and the police detail at the event and strengthen measures to hold individuals responsible for their actions.
"If someone does mess up, they will be held more accountable," she said. "As opposed to punishing the whole class, they themselves will be punished."
She said the council had not yet formalized what that punishment will entail.
Though the Halloween Club Night saw markedly less rowdy behavior than September's pub night, something attributed largely to rigid guidelines and strict security, Mourning emphasized that the class council did not model their regulations after the seniors' event.
"It's great that they were able to put on such a good event … but they also didn't have people that they had to run all their plans and ideas through," she said.
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This article has been edited from its originally published version for purposes of clarity.
