According to reports in The Harvard Crimson, the administration is on the warpath in cracking down on underage drinking, including breaking up parties and stopping people on campus.

Julia K. Dean of The Harvard Crimson reports:

Several final clubs and other student organizations canceled parties during the first weekend back at school as rumors swirled about a planned police crackdown on underage drinking.

Though neither the Harvard University Police Department nor the Cambridge Police Department made any public announcement about increased weekend policing, undergraduates swapped wild stories to explain their caution about partying—ranging from a supposed cocaine sting in a final club to Harvard’s possible concern over bad press after two summer sexual assaults and a major cheating scandal.

The rumors were enough to deter many clubs, and though both HUPD and CPD representatives did not respond to requests for comments over the weekend, a significantly higher than usual number of Cambridge police officers lined Mt. Auburn Street, home to most of the final clubs, on Friday and Saturday nights.

The officers administered Breathalyzer tests to students and asked them to pour their drinks into the street. The police log which would indicate whether any students were arrested for underage drinking had not been published as of press time.

Mia P. Tankersley ’14 said she heard an officer address a visibly intoxicated student on the sidewalk outside the Phoenix. “You have one second to get yourself in line,” she heard the officer say.

Stephanie L. Newman ’13, the publisher of the Advocate, repeated the rumors in an email to the literary magazine staff cancelling a planned party on Saturday. “The word on the street is that they’re trying to look for a partying organization with underage drinking to make a bad example of,” she wrote. “It’s not worth losing funding or building privileges for a bottle of wine.”

It’s unclear if the crackdown is related to the massive cheating scandal or the first reported case of stranger rape on campus in 12 years.