Quiet around town

It sure gets quiet and peaceful around my town when the college kids are gone for a holiday week. Almost half the population could be gone, and the partying and loud traffic dies down. It never lasts, though.
I know they're just being young people, and they are our future and all that, but sometimes their behavior is just inexcusable. The trouble is, the local authorities never seem to try to control things. The university runs the town and everyone knows it.
It's hard to be charitable when you're picking empty beer cans out of your yard.