UGA has new tailgating rules

[tigereyes 19]

UGA Cracks Down on Tailgaters

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Condace Pressley

@ March 18, 2010 5:04 PM Permalink | Comments (7)

The times, they are a changing for UGA tailgaters come the fall. WSB's Pete Combs reports on new rules for football fans during home games.

UGA President Michael Adams says it's not that he's out to spoil a good time. "We want the fans here, we want them to have a great time, we want them to support the team, we want them to tailgate," Adams said Thursday. "We just don't want them to destroy the campus in the process."

He was referring to a September 12, 2009 home game where tailgaters dumped about 70-tons of garbage on the North Campus defecated on the grounds and abandoned grills, tents, coolers and chairs by the truckload.

A committee of university administrators produced a set of rules on Thursday that ban tents, kegs, generators, televisions, amplified music, grills and cookers, tables longer than 4 feet and household furniture from North Campus.

University officials say some rules will be enforced in all campus parking areas, including a ban on golf carts.

Deep fryers and low country boils are banned, as are barbecue grills in the parking decks.

Corporate tailgating is also severely curtailed by the new rules.

No tailgate can have private security.

Professional bartenders are no longer allowed -- all tailgates must be self-serve.

Tailgates can not promote alcohol or tobacco products on campus.

Fences, gating, and other physical barriers limiting access are prohibited.

Corporations can no longer limit admission to their tailgate areas, nor can demand you wear wristbands, hand stamps and other methods that limit access to public property within a tailgate.

Sale of services or admission is prohibited.

There can be no product giveaways for promotional purposes.

There can be no DJ services on campus.

WSB News/talk radio link

[tgr4lfe 220]

Holy crap! What were some of them doing? Setting up their own limited access club/bar?

They had to do something, 70 tons of trash is ridiculous!!! If you can't take responsibility to clean up after yourselves then you suffer consequences, imo. I would not be happy to see this kind of disrespect to campus at AU.

[Mikey 16,779]

70 tons of trash? Yep, sounds like a DullDawg thang to me...

[AU alum 2]

Kinda makes Auburn's rules not nearly as bad, doesn't it?

[BoJtrueAUman 4]

70 tons of trash? Yep, sounds like a DullDawg thang to me...

you should see the pic its insane how much crap they left behind. We have a bunch of trash at our tailgate but you can gurantee that there isnt any of it left when we leave. I mean can they really call it tailgating anymore since they won't allow any of the "tailgating" stuff anymore.

[vatz22au 142]

Those rules are insane but it seems as if the fans brought it on themselves.

[Tigerguy 1]

Behave like an idiot and you'll get treated like one. What took them so long ?

[smilin tiger 0]

You sleep with the dogs, you gonna get fleas

[RunInRed 16,621]

Wow. Where are all our proud Bulldawg fans?

UGA tailgaters warned to clean up their trash

By Chip Towers

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Athens -- Whole tailgate tents left half-standing. Abandoned portable grills. Urination in campus doorways. Defecation. Trash strewn everywhere.

hese are the conditions early risers are encountering when they venture onto the University of Georgia campus for a Sunday morning stroll or drive the day after a Georgia football game. UGA President Michael Adams was just such a person after the South Carolina game this past weekend and he was appalled by what he saw.

"I came through here on my way to church early Sunday morning and it was a disgrace the way the campus was left," said Adams, speaking to media after a UGA Presidential Cabinet meeting on Thursday. "I have had hundreds of contacts and the students and the alumni are upset. We need some help from them and from our fans and from our media outlets before the next home game and see if we can't find ways" to fix the problem.

"We can probably do our job better than we've been doing but this is one we need to work together on."

Adams said clean-up crews picked up some 70 tons of trash after Georgia's home opener Saturday against South Carolina. The university plans to distribute extra trash bags and increase the number of trash and recyclable containers for the next home game against Arizona State on Sept. 26. But Adams said more considerate behavior from a smaller sector of fans was probably the more important change.

"There were tons and tons of trash and lots of inappropriate behavior that most of our fans don't like or tolerate," he said. "It's not pervasive. I don't know if it's 15 or 20 percent, but it is a substantial enough group. But if you're going to haul all this stuff in for pregame, why not add a recyclable bag or two and either take it with you or put it on the side of the street where the appropriate people can take it away?

This is not the first time the trashing of campus during football games has become an issue. Three years ago a similar public relations effort was unleashed to help improve the game-day environment on campus.

But the problem continued and actually might have worsened recently with the SEC's new television contract creating more night matchups of rival opponents.

"What happened last week is typical," said George Stafford, UGA's associate vice president for auxiliary and administrative services. "It takes 200 to 300 people on Sunday morning to pick up and bag up all the trash, throw it on a truck and haul it out to the landfill. A typical day game produces 35 to 40 tons of trash. A night SEC game like this we have 70 or more tons."

Stafford said last year's "Blackout Game" against Alabama produced a record 75 tons of trash on campus.

"I think it reached a low after that game," said Doc Eldridge, president of the Chamber of Commerce and a former mayor of Athens. "It's pretty incredible, particularly after a big game, after a late game, the conditions they leave campus and the downtown district in. I've been here my whole life, been a citizen, been the mayor, been at the chamber, and we can do better than this. I'm glad it's getting some attention."

"New media" helped bring the problem to the forefront this time. It started with The Red and Black, the student newspaper, publishing a story and pictures on Monday showing the same area of North Campus before, during and after this past Saturday's game. That created a firestorm of reaction that was further fueled by people posting personal accounts and pictures on Facebook and Twitter.

“It was just shocking to see the aftermath,” said Andy Carter, 37, who works at the UGA Library and only recently moved to Athens."It seems to be more of a grass-roots movement this time," Adams said.Adams sent a subtle warning that there are other measures the university can take if behaviors do not improve. The city's open-container law is not enforced south of Broad Street on game days and police are generally more tolerant than they would be the other 358 days of the year.""We don't want to get a reputation like a British soccer crowd," Adams said. "I don't want to start arresting people or have a heavy police presence. We simply ask people to spend a little more time to maintain our campus."I'm pretty hopeful [that won't be necessary] because I think it's not just us out-of-touch administrators that are concerned. The students, alumni and faculty have all raised concerns. I hope we'll get some help out of our fans this time."

http://www.ajc.com/sports/uga/uga-tailgaters-warned-to-140564.html

[BZ770 2]

When your front lawn of your Fraternity House looks like that on Sunday Morning then you can say that was one hell of a party.

[AUartlady 19]

This will happen at Auburn. When is the last time you walked through Grave Ampitheatre after a game? Not as big an area but still very trashed.

[creed 1,682]

This will happen at Auburn. When is the last time you walked through Grave Ampitheatre after a game? Not as big an area but still very trashed.

Thanks AUartlady, I was about to mention the same thing, and it's not just the Grave Ampitheatre but a few other places on campus. It's usually the under 25 crowd (apologies to those under 25 who are responsible), and there is no excuse for not leaving a tailgating spot cleaner than when one entered. If we would clean up after ourselves the cost savings for cleanup could go to other important things to beautify our campus. Actually a good idea I try to practice is when I leave the stadium I properly dispose of the trash I create along the way such as candy wrappers, plastic bottles, etc. Just imagine if everyone leaving the stadium picked up two items of trash going back to their cars. Let's pass this along to our fellow tailgaters and season ticket holders to see what a difference it would make this fall on the overall cleanliness of our campus.

[CircleDrill 178]

I have never understood folks who can just throw stuff on the ground either. Doesn't matter what the circumstances are! But they sure do it at the Amphitheater.

I always bring a box of trash bags. Even if everyone tailgating around me forgot theirs, I have PLENTY. Just ask!!!

I don't even like to leave the bags full of trash on the curb. I take them with me!

If you are so drunk before the game that you don't know if you are throwing your trash on the ground or in a garbage can, how are you even going to walk to the stadium??

[RunInRed 16,621]

I'm not sure about the amphitheater but where we tailgate (usually in front of the library), most are pretty proud about cleaning up their tailgate areas. I've never seen anything that looks close to the above pics - it simply would not be tolerated - again, at least in this area.

[Duder 238]

There are plenty of places on AU's campus that look trashy after games--for that matter there are plenty of places on every college campus that look trashed after game days. When my wife and I were leaving after the LA Tech game last season we saw a few abandoned grills, beer cans/bottles, etc. I did not see anyone defecating, I never even ran across that problem on Bama's campus!

70 tons of garbage is absolutely ridiculous. I don't care how young someone is, they should know not to crap unless they are in a restroom. Sure, the rules seem harsh but if the fans are dumb enough to do this then they get what they deserve.

Take note of the fact that they specifically said these things are banned at North campus.

[SouthLink02 8]

Good for UGA

Douchebags want to ruin our campus? Fine, you won't tailgate there

I applaud this move and I suspect many fans around the tailgating areas will spend a bit more time cleaning up this season so THEY won't be next

[autigeremt 6,788]

We (Auburn University Environmental Programs) are currently looking at some new steps to help with the litter and dumping on our campus. Parkerson Mill Creek (the waterway alongside BEMC that runs past the football practice facility, soccer complex, etc.) has become a target for a few RV's (dumping of their tanks). While our issues are not nearly as large as those at UGA, we do have some things that need to be dealt with.

[MDM4AU 336]

Not saying they do it all the time or that other schools haven't or that Auburn fans haven't done it before. But the last AU/UGA game I went to was 2002 at Jordan-Hare. The UGA fans around us left all sorts of trash lying. More than just, "oops, we didn't see that." It was ridiculous.