STEPHEN BUCKNER, Reveille Radio News Reporter:
Considering the majority of LSU students are under the legal drinking age of 21, it is expected to find a number of underage individuals partaking in the University’s legendary partying festivities.
Needless to say, the LSUPD and other law enforcement agencies are doing just about everything to crack down on underage drinking.
According to Sergeant Blake Tabor, aside from football games the LSUPD has issued two MIPs for the fall semester.
SGT. BLAKE TABOR (LSUPD): We do have assistance from the ATC of Louisiana (Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control), which primarily their responsible on a game day for issuing the vast majority of our citations for minors in possession.
BUCKNER: Coming into last Saturday’s game against McNeese State, the ATC already issued 43 MIPs during LSU’s first three home games.
According to the Daily Reveille, last year’s game against ULL (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) alone led to 71 summonses for minors in possession being issued.
SGT. TABOR: Last year we did see a slight spike as it pertained to the first two games of the season. So at that point we put our intelligence unit out, our plain clothes officers, to specifically address that situation where we saw minors in possession.
BUCKNER: Sergeant Tabor says the number of MIPs issued varies from game to game, based on the opponent and even the time of kickoff.
SGT. TABOR: We see some games that we have a lot of MIPs. We see some games where we have very few. So it just kind of depends on the game. It depends on the atmosphere. And it kind of depends on how many people we have on campus.
BUCKNER: The enforcement of what the LSUPD constitutes as liquor laws appears more effective now than ever.
According to LSU’s 2010 Security and Fire Report, liquor law related arrests have taken a major drop since 2007, dropping from 270 to 219 arrests last year.
Stephen Buckner, Reveille Radio News.