100K in TS?

As many know almost every home game there is a "bald spot" in part of the student section (SS). It often goes unused because most of the students concentrate near the NW corner of the student section.

Now here's what's interesting about this. When I was student in the early-mid 80's, TS's official capacity was something like 77K. For the '83 UW game, we packed 83K+ in TS. Mostly due to unlimited seating in the SS, i.e., students only had to show their student ID and you were in.

After the UW game, the fire marshal required LSU to implement some attendance control measures so that the # of students allowed in the SS corresponded to the actual # of seats available in the SS. Basically, the same policy as is in place to this day.

But really what’s happened is the density of people in a part of the SS is every bit as dense as it was in ’83. So the problem hasn’t really been resolved it’s just not as large in scale as it used to be.

Questions:
1) Does anyone know what the Fire Marshal’s governing principle/concern is for this?
2) Is there any reason some sort of mitigation couldn’t be implemented. Something along the lines of having students attend an emergency evacuation class. This kind of thing is done in other arenas all the time.

We had 93K for the UF game. I think we could go over 100K if something like suggested above was put in place and the SS was “re-opened.”