Boulder Weekly, August 15-21, 2002.

New and returning students are pouring in Boulder. Some of them will choose to live on "The Hill", that part of the city where students and local residents are usually experiencing some tensions. Boulder's so-called "Couch Ban" starts this August 1. It prohibits the use of upholstered furniture as outside furniture and is restricted to the Hill neighborhood. The couches were often used to fuel fires during the student celebrations and the residents were quite mad about this habit.