TL20070426-01 "Brian Stelter Editor in Chief Bar owners and their patrons are noticing a more active police presence as the county steps up its enforcement in downtown Towson. �We�ve issued a lot of citations and put out a zero tolerance policy to my officers,� Baltimore County Police Capt. Karen Johnson said. The enforcement effort started �in ear-nest in early March,� Johnson said. It�s mainly happening on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. The efforts include checking bars for underage patrons, checking IDs outside liquor stores and stopping vehicles for DUI checks. Johnson said she�s trying to put word out to the students to �temper their behavior.� �We�re not going to put up with it,� she said. Jerry Mazurowski, general manager of The Greene Turtle, said this is the most significant crackdown he�s seen since his bar/restaurant opened in 2004. �I�ve never experienced it like this,� Mazurowski said. Johnson said dozens of students have been cited or arrested for alcohol viola-tions since early March. Johnson is starting to compile reports about alcohol violations by students. In the first three months of the year, 29 students received citations and 26 students were arrested for a variety of offenses. Twenty-three students were arrested for driving under the influence. The arrests happened all across Towson, with many on Kenilworth Drive, where hun-dreds of students live in apartments. April 26, 2007 Now on TheTowerlight.com: Submit your photos from Tigerfest via e-mail -- send them to tigerfest@gmail.com... Cracking down Photo Illustration by Patrick Smith/The Towerlight Between January and March, four students were charged with using a fake ID. Sixteen underage students were cited for alcohol possession. Thursday Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice-weekly www.thetowerlight.com PARKING Garage addition begins Towsontown Garage expansion will add 450 spots; Lot 7 closes May 3 Tig2e0r0fe7 st See GARAGE, page 11 Sharon Leff News Editor The first sign of the Towsontown Garage expansion project appeared Tuesday in the form of fencing around the adjacent field. Towson is adding 450 parking spots by building a new section of the garage behind the Residence Tower on top of what is now Lot 7. The project is slated for completion by the end of the year. Once the addition is online, Lot 5 for faculty/staff behind Linthicum Hall will be closed, resulting in a net gain of less than 200 spots. After waiting for many months, the University obtained permis-sion for the project from the Board of Public Works April 18 and the Department of the Environment April 20. According to the Towson Web site, the project is budgeted at $10.6 million. Lot 7, which has 112 spaces, will be permanently closed starting Thursday, May 3. �If we still have vehicles after that point we�re going to have to go in there and tow them out,� Pam Mooney, director of parking and transportation services, said. She said some of the spaces are used by residents who will now have to park in the garage. �What�s going to happen is on the days when Towsontown Garage fills, it�s going to fill a little bit earlier and 100 people are going to have to go The Towerlight See BAR, page 11 As police presence increases outside local bars and stores, so do citations and arrests for alcohol violations We�ve issued of citations and put out a zero tolerance policy to my officers. Karen Johnson Baltimore County Police Capt. �i a lot o Officials say alcohol enforcement will be strict... News, page 8 Battle of the Bands winner The Apathy Eulogy prepares for Saturday�s concert... Arts, page 15 Saturday 3 to 9 p.m. Burdick Field "
