Two things have happened in south campus since 1995: Bars have closed, and parties have turned into riots. While Campus Partners, Ohio State administration, students and the Columbus Division of Police may point fingers at each other, recent graduates blame a combination of bar closures, policing and a lack of community.Home and community, or the lack there of, is the problem according to Rich Pina, a 1992 OSU graduate who lived in the campus area for nine years before moving to Phoenix.”There were no riots while I was there,” Pina said.Before the campus bars closed, he said, there was always something to do. Parties were usually affairs that a friend was holding. You knew the host. After the closing of south campus bars, parties became something you heard about and attended without knowing one of the hosts. As a result, Pina said, the majority of partygoers don’t care about what happens to the community.Pina said he believes this lack of community is also what leads to the animosity between students and police. The police officers who come into the university neighborhood on the weekends to deal with the riots aren’t the ones who patrol the area most of the time, according to Pina.When all of the campus bars closed, Pina said, there was nothing to do but have parties, and they got out of hand.Jon Roszkowski, a junior in sociology, found himself in the middle of riots last spring on E. 13th Avenue. Roszkowski said he was walking to a friend’s house when he wound up surrounded by tear gas. He said the police action seemed well within reason and blames campus riots on rampant stupidity.”Some people shouldn’t drink,” Roszkowski said. “They should be locked in their houses forever.”He also said that the former bar scene was much more accessible to law enforcement. If the drinking was centralized and in the public eye, Roszkowski said, the students would be on better behavior.Policing is an issue Nathan Collins, a 2000 OSU graduate, feels is a major cause of the riots. Collins has lived in the university neighborhood for three years.”I think the bar scene was better when I was in high school,” Collins said. Collins, who grew up in Columbus, said he can’t believe that a school as big as OSU has such a horrible nightlife. He said that nothing usually ends up happening until the police arrive at a party.”If you live on campus, cops need to treat you like a homeowner, not just a student,” Collins said.Collins attributes the riots to both the police and the bar closures. He also doubts the problems are any worse than a lot of other campuses, they’re just bigger at OSU.Joe Hess, a 1995 OSU graduate who has lived in the campus area off and on since 1990, said that it seems like south campus has always been rowdy, but since the mid-1990s there are one or two major incidents each year.