The first Senior Pub Night of this semester, held Thursday night at Hurricane O'Reilly's, was a success, according to C.J. Mourning, the Senior Class Council's vice president of social programming.
"It went really smoothly, I'd say," Mourning said. "Everything went as scheduled."
Hurricane O'Reilly's, located on Canal Street in Boston, had a good "pub" atmosphere, according to Mourning.
This was the first Senior Pub Night to take place since last fall, when incidents of public urination, indecent exposure and claims of alcohol theft forced the cancellation of the Sept. 24 pub night at Gypsy Bar midway through and prompted administrators to question the future of the event.
Mourning said the approximately 600 seniors who attended Thursday's pub night were well behaved and understood that last semester's incidents called for an improvement.
"Everyone was under control at this one," Mourning said. "Sometimes people make mistakes, and they definitely have learned."
To ensure the continuation of pub nights, the class council proposed various changes to the procedure of the event to gain the approval of administrators for this semester's pub nights.
Extra staff members were hired and police details were present, with the Tufts University Police Department at the bus pick-up stations at the campus center, and the Boston Police Department at Hurricane O'Reilly's, according to Mourning.
"At the last event it was difficult to take [misbehaving] people's names down because there were so many people," Mourning said. "With the added police detail and extra staff that was working the event it was easier."
Mourning said that having additional buses eased frustrations, and enabled students to get to the event earlier. The last bus, she said, left Tufts at 10:30 p.m.
Senior Emily Wier agreed that this pub night went more smoothly that the last. "I would say that this pub night was a lot more organized and people had a really good time," she said.
Mourning added that a third pub night will be held sometime in April.
