re: LSU fraternities BANNED from tailgating

Are fraternities any good for anything other than organized drinking?

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've setup, or been involved in a tailgate, that has been on the Parade Ground, or adjacent since 2005.

The trash on the Parade Ground was from the fraternity tailgates.

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This.

We moved off the parade grounds 2 years ago for the sole reason of getting away from the fraternities. Their tailgates have gotten ridiculously trashy over just the last 5-10 years. I really don't feel bad for them. They did this to themselves over the course of a few years.

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Seriously. Why not let them hire them cracked heads from Landmark?

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Seriously? Landmark drug tests us like all the time and it’s really hard to get clean pee these days

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Soo.... Just find somewhere outside the parade grounds to tailgate. Pretty easy to get around.

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This is the issue, which is personal with me.

Last year, when the frats were run off of the parade grounds, several of them moved to the area behind U High, by the Alumni Hotel and across from the last group of frat houses close to University Lake. That area has been where we have tailgated for the last 20 years, and it has always been a nice, quiet tailgating spot for lots of families, with shade trees, open grass where their kids can throw the ball, etc.

After being kicked off the parade grounds last year, frats took over the fields and open grass with huge tents and canopies, blaring DJ'ed "music" (mostly vulgar rap), crowds of obnoxious frat bros and drunken trashy sorors, etc. Big change.

This year it has been "back to normal", but I can see this going bad for the next game.

There were still issues this year-- even with them supposedly being in their houses, you still have the frats on Dalrymple across from U High and the Law School setting up shop across the street from their houses, on the U High front lawn and under the oaks by the Law School.... trash everywhere and drunks puking or passed out against trees. Like the parade grounds, a disgrace to have to walk through that crap to and from the game.

Fraternities were forced onto the parade grounds from the houses. They did not want to be there. Nothing good comes from that many young Greek members in a small space.

They were then forced back to the houses, now forced into limbo.

LSU Admin is idiotic if they think this will curb partying/drinking.

They’ll have huge off campus house parties and the majority of the students won’t come to campus due to 1) the hassle 2) surge Uber pricing/lack of transportation 3) being wasted

This will only continue to hurt attendance issues

That all depends on the individuals charged with certain tasks, do they give a shite and are they competent, or not?

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LSU Admin is idiotic if they think this will curb partying/drinking.

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It's not about that, it's about getting the University off the hook form a liability and PR standpoint. If an independent dies off campus, it's tragic. If a member of a university-sanctioned organization dies on campus, it's tragic and potentially costs LSU a shite ton of money.

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Prisoner of the house? WTF does that mean?

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When you live at the house, thats your home. People coming in every night drunk as shite waking people up with people from the bar. Meal plan has you going there to eat all the time.

My buddies were mostly all in Sigma Nu and they had to live 1 semester in the house. During that semester, Fall 2001 I think, they called me and other friends nonstop to get away from the house. Their frat bordered on an animal house atmosphere though so maybe its different for other groups.