The students who protested the installation of cameras downtown should not be angry at the State College Borough Council; they should be angry at their fellow students. The community of State College is merely trying to protect itself from the immature and irresponsible attitudes of what I hope is a minority of the student body at University Park.

In an effort to escape this, I changed campuses, and the Borough Council has every right to protect their town by installing cameras. Don't get me wrong, I know how to have fun, and I like to get drunk as much as the next person, but the degree to which some of the students at University Park takes it is disgusting and wrong.

I remember waking up on Sundays my freshman year to the sounds of ambulances racing to the scene of a party to revive a reveler. I also remember walking from South Halls to the HUB to get food during one of the riots, carrying my keys between my fingers in case some "party goers" decided that since I wasn't one of them, I was the enemy. This is no way to live at college and is a major reason why I left.

It is sad that a small number of people can threaten the rights of the majority; however, it is sometimes necessary in order to protect the life, liberty and property of others.

To the students who would protest the installation of cameras, why not use that energy to fight the idea of college as a place of debauchery and drunkenness? Or try to create a more enlightened, mature and responsible attitude on campus? Those actions would attack the source of the problem, not the symptoms.

College should be a place of learning and discussion, not of drinking and debauchery, which is what it has become.