"We're dealing with a lot of people, so we just wanted to make sure that everything was taken care of," Panda, a junior, said.
She said the decision to heighten security did not have anything to do with a rumored scuffle that occurred after the event last year. She added that people have always had to pass through metal detectors before entering the Post Office Pavilion.
Sophomore Fahim Hemani, who also attended the after-party, said he had not heard about the stabbing, but "knows for a fact" that something occurred last year. He said some of his close friends saw someone try to cut another person with a broken CD case.
"I think things happen when you put a lot of people in a place like that ... but, I don't think it characterizes these types of parties," Hemani said. Sophomore Nisha Balsara, who attended Bhangra Blowout and the after-party, said she heard about the incident, but was skeptical about its truth because she also heard stories last year about a stabbing at the after-party. She said those rumors were not true.
The after-party stabbing is the latest in a spate of nightclub violence. MPD Chief Charles Ramsey wrote a letter last month calling on city officials to shut down Dream, a popular nightclub in northeast D.C. that has been the scene of at least a dozen non-fatal stabbings and fights since December. Three killings and several other violent crimes have recently occurred at Club U, located at 2000 14th St. in the city's U Street section, prompting calls from city officials to shut down the establishment.
Farr, of the MPD Violent Crimes branch, said nightclub violence has "not necessarily" increased lately, despite recent calls from city officials to take steps against such incidents.
He said, "It's been pretty much the same through the last couple of years."
She said the decision to heighten security did not have anything to do with a rumored scuffle that occurred after the event last year. She added that people have always had to pass through metal detectors before entering the Post Office Pavilion.
Sophomore Fahim Hemani, who also attended the after-party, said he had not heard about the stabbing, but "knows for a fact" that something occurred last year. He said some of his close friends saw someone try to cut another person with a broken CD case.
"I think things happen when you put a lot of people in a place like that ... but, I don't think it characterizes these types of parties," Hemani said. Sophomore Nisha Balsara, who attended Bhangra Blowout and the after-party, said she heard about the incident, but was skeptical about its truth because she also heard stories last year about a stabbing at the after-party. She said those rumors were not true.
The after-party stabbing is the latest in a spate of nightclub violence. MPD Chief Charles Ramsey wrote a letter last month calling on city officials to shut down Dream, a popular nightclub in northeast D.C. that has been the scene of at least a dozen non-fatal stabbings and fights since December. Three killings and several other violent crimes have recently occurred at Club U, located at 2000 14th St. in the city's U Street section, prompting calls from city officials to shut down the establishment.
Farr, of the MPD Violent Crimes branch, said nightclub violence has "not necessarily" increased lately, despite recent calls from city officials to take steps against such incidents.
He said, "It's been pretty much the same through the last couple of years."
