“Breach of the Peace”

This year, for Program Council's annual Spring Concert, the students of Southern Methodist University were promised performances by Girl Talk and Big Boi. The concert; however, ended up being a campus-wide disappointment. After drawing a large crowd, around 1,400 people, to Doak Walker Plaza the concert was shut down prematurely by the University Park police. The crowd never had the opportunity to experience the main event, Girl Talk's performance. The show was pulled from stage after a mere forty-five minutes of Big Boi. The reason? The police department recieved too many noise complaints from the people of University Park. Despite being forewarned about the concert, they complained and we suffered. The fate of the concert lay in the hands of the police, since they have the ultimate say, and they chose to pull the plug. I have to wonder, if you live that close to University campus isn't occasional high noise levels to be expected? Being in attendance, I can tell you that we produce the same if not higher volume levels at night football games.