New Attendance Policies

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Ohio State Announces New Restrictions at Football Games


COLUMBUS (AP) - Go Bucks -- but before you go, Ohio State wants you to know about policies for this season's seven home football games. The university is reminding fans to travel light, because bags, small purses and containers are subject to search.
There are a number of items you're not allowed to bring into Ohio Stadium, including food and drinks, coolers, video cameras, T-V's, noisemakers and weapons of any kind.
Chairback seats also are banned, unless you go to one of three designated gates with a doctor's note stating that you need back support.
The Buckeyes open their season Saturday afternoon at home against Northern Illinois.
Posted by AEB
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Play nice, OSU group asks of fans
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Kathy Lynn Gray
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



Can college-football fans known for couch burnings and drunken tailgates become the best fans in the land?
That’s the lofty goal of a new group of Ohio State University students, who hope to begin at the opening game on Saturday.
"We’re trying to prove you can have a good time on game day without harassing the opposing fans," said junior Robbie Beaulieu, one of two organizers of the Sportsmanship Council. "Displaying your pride in a positive manner can be just as much fun."
This morning, the group plans to announce three efforts: game-day ambassadors, a Best Fans in the Land competition and videos promoting positive fan behavior that will be played during games.
The ambassadors will be roving groups of students and faculty and staff members who will welcome fans — particularly opposing-team fans — at tailgates and in the stadium. The group of 20 to 30 ambassadors will wear Buckeyes gear and identifying buttons and try to answer questions and promote good will, said junior Katie Krajny, the other council organizer.
The best-fans competition is for students only. The winners will be chosen based on how many OSU athletic events they attend and essays about sportsmanship. Sports that traditionally have low attendance will count more in the contest, and prizes will be awarded each quarter. The prizes have not been determined.
OSU President Karen A. Holbrook has been trying for years to improve fan behavior, particularly after riots near campus when Ohio State beat Michigan in 2002. Sofas and cars were burned, police used tear gas and media across the country showed the mayhem.
Holbrook cracked down on tailgaters after that, encouraging police to enforce opencontainer laws and threatening to expel students caught rioting. Since then, the campus area has been more subdued after games.
The Sportsmanship Council, however, didn’t start until after the University of Texas game last September. Some Texas fans complained that they were harassed by foulmouthed, violent, drunken OSU fans when the teams played at Ohio Stadium.
Texas officials already have started prepping their fans for the Buckeyes’ visit to Austin on Sept. 9.
Their men’s athletic director, DeLoss Dodds, last week called on fans to be "No. 1" in positive fan behavior in announcing a good-sportsmanship campaign with the theme "Texas fans make us proud."
"We’ve got Ohio State coming in," Dodds said. "We need to show them how to handle this part of sports. There were some issues up there, obviously, and we don’t want issues in Austin, Texas. We want to do it the right way."
To help determine how to improve fan behavior at OSU, the Sportsmanship Council surveyed students in the spring.
They found that men, upperclassmen, students living in campus-area rentals and student football fans accept poor behavior more readily than women, freshmen and sophomores, students living in dorms and students who were fans of other sports.
Of those surveyed, 92 percent said they’d seen poor fan behavior and 59 percent said alcohol consumption contributed to that behavior.
kgray@dispatch.com

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COLUMBUS (AP) - Go Bucks -- but before you go, Ohio State wants you to know about policies for this season's seven home football games. The university is reminding fans to travel light, because bags, small purses and containers are subject to search.
There are a number of items you're not allowed to bring into Ohio Stadium, including food and drinks, coolers, video cameras, T-V's, noisemakers and weapons of any kind. Chairback seats also are banned, unless you go to one of three designated gates with a doctor's note stating that you need back support.
The Buckeyes open their season Saturday afternoon at home against Northern Illinois.
Posted by AEB
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Gyot Dammit!! There goes my plans for stopping Garrett Wolfe...

[BB73]

If the Giant Toilet instituted these policies of no noisemakers, would thousands of Vulvarines be unable to start their cars after the game?

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Originally Posted by BB73

If the Giant Toilet instituted these policies of no noisemakers, would thousands of Vulvarines be unable to start their cars after the game?

It would never happen... they don't want dead silence in their "stadium".