Students in and around the Fenway area woke up last Thursday to scattered newspapers, cracked windows and the news of an Emerson College student’s death. On Friday morning some grabbed the Boston Herald on the way to class and saw close-up images of Victoria Snelgrove’s last moments. And on Saturday, it started all over again with Game 1.

As the Boston Red Sox head into Game 4 and prepare to “reverse the curse,” university members are torn between wishing for the success of an inherently underdog team and anticipating the uproar that could follow.

“I love the whole celebration,” said Jimmy Ladas, a senior finance major and devoted Red Sox fan. “Go out, make noise, have a good time, but I think the destruction is ridiculous and puts a damper on all the fun.”

Ladas said he did not join the students flooding Fenway Park last Wednesday because of the events that happened following the post-Super Bowl riots in February.

“I didn’t want the potential of getting killed,” Ladas said.

After the Patriots won their second Super Bowl victory in three years that Sunday night, 2,000 students took to Hemenway Street and Sym-phony Road, flipping cars and forming a mob that an allegedly drunk driver would later drive into, killing one person and injuring three others.

Despite his resolve after the American League Championship Series, however, the same rules do not apply for Ladas and the World Series.

“I want to tell my kids I was there … the first time the Red Sox won the World Series in 86 years,” Ladas said, adding that he would “go with the flow” after the game.

University officials are hoping the flow of students remains on campus after the series is clinched, and are taking precautions both “offensively” and “defensively” to ensure that occurs.

“Our Northeastern Public Safety is confident that near the campus, we can handle things,” said Vice President for Student Affairs Ed Klotzbier. “We want our students there.”

Director of Campus Activities and Programs Brooke Tempesta said the Student Activities Office has set up several programs to draw students on campus. She said the games will be shown in four locations in the Curry Student Center, including a large-scale projector screen in the West Addition, the indoor quad on the first floor and in the game room.

Across from the West Addition, afterHOURS will also show the games and will provide free food to students throughout the series, Tempesta said.

Director of Student Leadership John Silveria said he feels it is vital students remain on campus during and after the games.

Silveria said he does not understand how students can consider going to Fenway Park to celebrate after what happened after Game 7 and the Super Bowl.

“Why do something that could potentially hurt you? That’s the piece of it I just don’t get,” Silveria said. “We claim that we have a campus full of leaders and we claim that we have a campus full of mature students that are ahead of the curve … Well, it’s about time that we see you step up and take that responsibility into your own hands.”

Silveria said it is up to the individual students to make the choice about what they will do at game’s end, but he is looking for student leaders to take the initiative and announce their plans to avoid Fenway Park.

The father of a 16-month-old, Silveria worries he may someday have to discuss the same moral dilemma with his own son.

Student Government Assoc-iation Vice President for Academic Affairs Bill Durkin said he curiously ascended his Hemenway Street stoop after Game 7 last Wednesday, but then promptly turned around when he saw the riot police.

“I don’t see how students can still go out there and destroy property after what happened after the Super Bowl,” Durkin said. “I think it’s really unfortunate that students’ memories are so short that it takes now a second death of a student, a second unneeded, pointless death to get us to change the way that we act, change the way that some students act. If this doesn’t change it, I don’t know what will.”

When the photographs of Snelgrove’s last moments appeared in the Herald Friday, SGA took action. They immediately severed their relationship with the company, who had previously provided stacks of free newspapers to students on campus through an educational program.

“We weren’t going to wait around for any kind of apology because what we feel the Herald did was exploit her death by showing the most vulgar photo of her bleeding to death on the sidewalk,” Durkin said. “We’re not going to let them dump their free advertising on our students anymore.”

In addition to their strides with the Herald, SGA is also encouraging students to stay on campus for the remainder of the series.

Klotzbier said students caught on camera near Fenway Park taking part in riot-like celebrations would be immediately suspended. He cited the Student Code of Conduct, and reiterated that students do not have to be flipping cars or damaging property, but merely encouraging or participating in exuberant behavior, to face the consequences.

Evan Tesiny, a senior entrepreneurship and management major, said he plans to “celebrate quietly with a fine malt” after the series’ close.

“I don’t want to get shot with rubber bullets or clubbed or anything like that,” said Tesiny, remarking on the death of Snelgrove at the hands of a police officer’s less lethal gun last Wednesday. “[It] doesn’t matter if you’re doing something, what if the kid next to you is an asshole?”

Still, other students, while upset over Snelgrove’s death and the graphic images viewed days later, said they cannot give a definite answer about their plans for the night of a clinching game.

“I wouldn’t not go because of that,” said Jacqueline Hardman, a middler nursing major. “You just have to watch where you are and who’s around.”