I don't see anything here which is alarming at all, just enforcement of statutes that passed the local government.

Selective enforcement is where it becomes unacceptable. And no, there's no clear evidence to suggest that's happening in Athens, but based on my own college experience, and Biscuit's commentary, I think the probability of "student profiling" in Athens is high. During my time at Penn State, I observed that a student dwelling and a town dwelling could violate the same ordinance, but the student dwelling (sometimes my own) was the one that would get a citation. There was one loony townie who had a yard that was such an eyesore it regularly made the papers, yet it basically took an act of congress to have anything done about it. Yet if we went an hour or two past the 12 hours we were given to clear snow off our walkway, a citation was promptly delivered. While I realize students are quite good at playing the role of villains in a college town, I think these blatant acts of profiling are quite unnecessary. Each violation should be judged on its own, and cops should avoid their insatiable urge to stick it to the students, who, coincidentally, are often the lifeblood of a college town's economy.