<p>I just returned from Athens where I took my husband and son for a football game. I decided to drive and then be able to explore my campus while they went to game. I have not been to a game day in years and I was astounded and disgusted by what I saw. THey have ruined North campus by allowing the tailgaters to have free reign on where they party. The grass was ruined in many areas, the amount of trash and debris was ridiculous, the amount of BEER bottles and liquor bottles laying around in plain view astounding.</p>
<p>How did this happen? How did Adams allow this to happen? Outside the law school is the worst place I saw. How can anyone take a university who allows such destruction in the name of football be taken seriously. Our founders who invisioned this beautiful campus, built it and took care of it must be rolling over in their graves. Students take back your campus, Alumni get a life and stop destroying the campus. YOu don’t have to stuff your face for 6 hours and drink until drunk to enjoy football.</p>
<p>What’s even more amazing is how fast they actually clean up after each game- I ride my bike on North Campus every day so I have to watch out for broken glass, and it always amazes me how little there is on Sunday compared to Saturday. The grass does get rototilled a bit and there’s an ever-present smell of alcohol for awhile, but overall it’s not too long-lasting. </p>
<p>And if you think the destruction after the Ole Miss game was bad, wait until Auburn. The campus wasn’t even close to filling up yesterday.</p>
<p>Is it really necessary? I just don’t get the whole tailgating drunken stupor of alumni. The students seem to be out of this equation and I guess Adams wants to sell tix and get donations…THe police should be pursuing alumni on campus for public intoxication/urination, littering, etc. I mean really this is a institution of higher learning…and students who want to study can’t on game weekends. We at least had the sanctity of north campus when I was there. Now anything is fair game and that is sad. I say back to the parking lots. No tailgating on northcampus. Law school get your butt back down on your patio which is made for such things. Stop destroying our campus.</p>
<p>i personally would say you’re overreacting just a tad…
i mean, it’s georgia, it’s football, it’s a party. we celebrate football games more than we do new years. and ya, it gets rowdy on gameday and possibly out of hand. but that’s basically georgia football for ya. and like the guy before me said, on sunday it’s back to work. if there is studying on game weekends, it’s mainly done on sunday. on saturday, most of the students are at the party/game.</p>
<p>They clean up North Campus so fast that it is amazing. Adams is not going to make the alumni mad though. They have given away so many tickets to alumni seats that is ridiculous because that is where the money is. Sanford Stadium has over 92000 seats yet they only have student seating for around 18,000. I think that ratio is too small.</p>
<p>The problem is not drunken alumni and students. Sixty percent of the season ticket base for UGA football has no affiliation with the University other than buying football tickets. </p>
<p>The vast majority of game day problems on campus comes from that 60% that simply care nothing about the institution and only want to get drunk and rowdy and have no problem treating the campus as a trashcan and urinal.</p>
<p>President Adams was mentioned above as being part of the problem when in fact he has approved changes to try to clean up many of the problems. He approved the ban on overnight tailgating. The University has brought in extra event staff to try to better organize game day parking. There are numerous other measures that he has taken that have actually improved tings on game days. It should be interesting to note that Karen Holbrook, a former UGA provost and more recently the former president of Ohio State, attempted to put some of the same reforms in at OSU and was run out of town.</p>
<p>As for the police, they try, but there is no way they can get to everything with the limited manpower available.</p>
<p>Perhaps the best reforms would be to allow current students and alumni first shot at tickets along with faculty and staff. The remaining tickets could then be put up for sale to the general public.</p>
<p>The campus looks terrible after game days, but by Monday, the campus looks just as it did before the tailgating started. They really get it cleaned up a lot. You wouldn’t guess that the campus was full of tailgaters. My only complaint is the fact that students don’t get full season tickets (except for seniors I hear). Ridic.</p>
<p>If you ask me, it’s that 60% that you say that the rival schools don’t like about UGA. I’m going to Georgia Tech next year and attend a top 10 UGA feeder school, I have plenty of friends going to UGA next year and they are very intelligent (equal or even better GPA and SAT) and are extremely polite and nice. On the other hand, you have the kids that do not stand out academically, are a bit rude, and do not attend the school, but are still UGA’s “#1 fan.” This is how UGA can get the rep of being a “stupid school.” It is misrepresented by the people who don’t even attend.</p>