Tiger fans can scream for their team — and ice cream — starting Saturday.The School of Animal Sciences will open two new venues to sell the LSU AgCenter Dairy Store ice cream on game days in addition to the location on South Stadium Drive.The new venues are located in the concession area in Tiger Stadium directly behind the South goalposts and on the sidewalk between the stadium and the PMAC.”We tried to do this for a while with our own labor, but budget cuts kept [us] from doing it,” said Gary Hay, interim director of the School of Animal Sciences. “We got the student organizations involved as a way for them to raise their funds.”Hay said the money raised will go to the Block and Bridle Club and the Dairy Science Club. University students in these organizations will sell the ice cream at all three locations.”The clubs will make somewhere around a dollar a cup,” Hay said. “About 25 percent of sales is profit — that goes to them.”Brittany Bourg, Block and Bridle Club president and agricultural business senior, said the club will use the money to fund different scholarships for students within the club each spring.Cathleen Williams, animal science associate professor and Dairy Science Club adviser, said the money earned by members will fund attendance to American Dairy Science Association regional and national conferences.Hay said the School of Animal Sciences, which operates the Dairy Store, has to pay Tiger Concessions a cut of its sales but would not disclose an amount.Hay said the Dairy Store location inside Tiger Stadium will stay open until the end of the game if business goes well.—-Contact Mary Walker Baus at [email protected]
Ice cream new gameday treat
September 16, 2009