HOWEVER -- It is absolutely CRITICAL if you tailgate in this area that you bring extra garbage bags to police/clean your area. The family friendly movement from Adams was always about litter. It was never really about booze. If you tailgate over there show respect for the area, and clean up after yourself. It's not hard.
Here's the official map from UGA with the Family Friendly Zones Marked in Blue. As you can see, UGA has cut the size of the North Campus Area by 60%+ due to the lack of demand for booze free tailgate areas. This gives the prime area near the Arch back to mainstream tailgates where a stiff drink is enjoyed responsibly...or whatever. The Brooks Mall area remains the same size as it was for the CU game. The official press release is below.
Redcoats to Appear with Fans at Family-Friendly Areas
Fans Can Follow the Redcoats Through Campus to the
Dawg Walk Before the Tennessee Game
Source: UGA Press Release
ATHENS, Ga., Oct. 3, 2006— Before the Tennessee game, fans will have the opportunity to follow the Redcoats through campus from the North Campus family-friendly area to the Dawg Walk.
A group of Redcoats will arrive at the Arch at approximately 4:30 p.m. and will perform at the North Campus family-friendly area for 20 minutes before they make their way through campus to fire up fans at the Dawg Walk. The Dawg Walk starts one hour, 45 minutes before the kickoff of every game. It begins at the entrance of the Tate Center parking lot off Lumpkin Street and proceeds into the stadium.
At each of the family-friendly areas on North and South Campus, fans of all ages will be able to meet UGA student-athletes, as well as enjoy sports-themed games, a variety of inflatable play structures, caricature artists, face painters and more. Fans and families are encouraged to set up their tailgates in the area, as long as they are alcohol-free.
The North Campus area is located on the back portion of the North Campus quadrangle in front of the Old College building. This area has been condensed in size to accommodate other tailgates on the front portion bordering Broad Street.
“We have said from the beginning of this process that we would evaluate this plan as the season progresses,” said George Stafford, associate vice president of auxiliary and administrative services. “We established this area in response to many fans’ requests in years past to preserve an area of campus for families. While many have enjoyed the activities, we feel that the areas can be more concentrated and still preserve an area for families.”
At the North Campus location, fans will be able to meet athletes from the UGA soccer team from 5 – 6 p.m. In addition, 10 members of the UGA cheerleading squad will be there from 4:45 to 5:15 p.m. to rally fans. Kick off against Tennessee is scheduled for 7:45 p.m.
The South Campus family-friendly area is located on the front portion of D.W. Brooks Mall in front of the Miller Plant Sciences Building. At this location, the defending SEC Eastern Division Champion Georgia Bulldog softball team will greet fans from 5 – 6 p.m. Members of the UGA cheerleading squad will be there from 4:45 to 5:15 p.m.
For an up-to-date season schedule of UGA team appearances and maps that show the exact location of the zones, fans can visit the “family-friendly zones” page at www.gamedaygameplan.com. In addition to details about the family-friendly zone team appearance schedules, the website provides information on recent changes implemented by the University of Georgia to enhance the gameday experience, improve safety and preserve the beauty of the UGA campus.
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"It is absolutely CRITICAL if you tailgate in this area that you bring extra garbage bags to police/clean your area."
I would hope that you're not bringing "extra" bags. I'm hoping that you all have the good sense and decency to leave your tailgate area in the condition you found it in. That won't require anything extra since you should already have enough on hand.
by "extra" bags, I mean...don't forget that you're going to be tailgating for 2-3x as many hours on Saturday. That means you'll likely need many more bags.
It also means that UGA's trash cans will be full many, many hours too soon.
You have to bring more bags than usual.
It's all about the respect. Respect where you are, and have respect for yourself not to leave your sh*t behind for someone else to have to deal with.
" by "extra" bags, I mean...don't forget that you're going to be tailgating for 2-3x as many hours on Saturday."
Ah, the "if you tailgate in this area" part of the comment made me miss your intended point. You are very much correct. I've seen folks run out of bags on longer tailgating days. I've always just brought the box of bags from my garage with me when it's my turn for bag duty. It comes in handy. Sometimes I even offer litterbugs one of mine since the "obviously forgot their trash bag at home."
We came up with an idea a few years back that the University needs to get workers driving utility carts around campus with trailers made for trash. They could use these to shuttle bagged trash only to a central location. We call it the "Trash Wagon." It's not as as our idea to solve both the lack of outhouses (now more or less resolved) and bad ref calls. We called that the "Poop Cannon"* which is a potato gun that doesn't shoot potatoes.
* Real name censored.
I tailgate adjacent to the North Campus Family Friendly Zone and noticed that some group (the University maybe?) has been walking around on game day distributing black and red trash bags (with twist ties) to all the tailgates in our area at each of the home games. Black is for trash, red for recycle. I personally thought it (the bags, not the location of the FFZ) was a good idea.
The big group with the beer pong table in front of the main library needs to clean up their trash.
They left a pit after the last two games.
EXTRA BAGS......
just clean your stuff ^ when yooh get done tailgaten i mean come on dont be a pig and leave your garabage for some1 else DUUHH! all i got 2 say is i wouldnt do it O.K.
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