Bars in the news; Champaign couple claim beating was hate crime

From the News-Gazette

Champaign couple claim beating was hate crime

CHAMPAIGN – Two women from Champaign say they were beaten up by three women in a campus bar early Sunday because they're gay.

Ana Hamersma, 19, and her girlfriend, Ashley Pelz, 23, both University of Illinois students majoring in psychology, told The News-Gazette they were inside The Clybourne, 706 S. Sixth St., C, about 1:30 a.m. Sunday when a man on the dance floor asked Hamersma, in street lingo, if she wanted to commit a lewd sex act.

Pelz heard the comment.

"I told him, 'She's with me. Can you leave us alone?' He waved his hand, and three girls came over, and not a second later, they just started hitting us. They did not say anything," Pelz said, adding that neither she nor Hamersma had said anything besides the "leave us alone" comment.

"They were like his minions. They came running to him. I don't know what he said to them, but it took only two seconds before they were punching my girlfriend and I," Hamersma said.

WTF Champaign Urbana?

A few bad apples are ruining this whole area. We've got people attempting to beat each other up for sport, and now people beating up a gay couple.

Thanks to the "polar bear hunting", no white people are walking down the street without being suspicious of any black people behind them. Now, there's going to be a backlash fro mthe gay community from this alleged hate crime.

Stupid people.

CU Bars in the news; Citations issued for possession, purchase of alcohol by minors

From the News Gazette

Citations issued for possession, purchase of alcohol by minors

CHAMPAIGN — State police and Champaign police issued citations to 31 people for the possession and purchase of alcohol by a minor and one citation for resisting arrest at six bars in Champaign on Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

The citations were part of the Operation Campus Tap program, which focuses on underage drinking among college and high school young people.

The breakdown is:

Clybourne, 9
Station 211, 9
High Dive, 5
Kam's, 4
It's Brothers, 4
Bradley's, 1

Not sure which of the bars had the resisting arrest.

CU Bars in the News; Police issue 32 citations in sweep of bars

From the News-Gazette (and their horribly redesigned website that really sucks).

Police issue 32 citations in sweep of bars

The bars in question are:Clybourne, Fire Haus, Joe's Brewery, Legends, Geovanti's, and Kam's.

Illinois State Police and Champaign police issued 32 citations for underage drinking Friday under its ongoing Operation Campus/Tap program.

The purpose of the program is to reduce underage drinking among college-age and high school youths.

The Illinois Secretary of State may suspend or revoke the driver's license of people found with illegal identification.

Suspensions may be for up to one year or longer. Minors convicted of purchase, possession or consumption of alcohol will face a one-year suspension of their driver's license.

The Operation Campus/Tap program is funded through a grant from the United States Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention? They don't look like they are actively PREVENTING anything, with 32 citations, it seems more like they are just punishing people who they have missed with their prevention.