LSU campus and the surrounding areas expect to see their fair share of trick-or-treaters Saturday in addition to the routine influx of gameday traffic.East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Kip Holden has made trick-or-treating in East Baton Rouge Parish an hour earlier because of the LSU-Tulane game in Tiger Stadium. Trick-or-treating will take place from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, according to a news release from the governor’s office.Motorists heading to the game are asked to be extremely cautious while driving through residential areas, and parents are advised to avoid walking through main intersections along gameday traffic routes, according to the release.The LSU Police Department will have officers directing traffic and stationed throughout campus on game day as usual, said LSUPD spokesman Russel Rogé.Officers will be limited as far as directing trick-or-treaters on neighboring streets like State Street and Dalrymple Drive because LSUPD’s jurisdiction does not extend off campus, Rogé said. The Baton Rouge Police Department will handle traffic in the surrounding areas.
Rogé said he does not expect too many trick-or-treaters on campus during the day, but LSUPD will take them “on a case-by-case basis.””They need to stay in the areas off campus; there’s no trick-or-treating that we’re sanctioning on Halloween night,” he said. “[If someone does come on campus], they won’t be allowed to go from tailgate to tailgate or anything.” Rogé said LSUPD and the University only recognize the Panhellenic Council’s official annual trick-or-treating festivities on Lakeshore Drive, which were held Wednesday.The Council, which governs all the sororities on campus, offers treats to University alumni and local residents every year on the Wednesday before Halloween, said Maggie Fenerty, the Panhellenic director of Greek interrelations. Fenerty said she expected about 2,000 children to come to the sorority houses, the same number of people as last year. The event featured face painting and a beanbag toss, she said.Panhellenic sororities began planning for the event two months ago, and members were urged to make costumes and buy candy for event-goers, she said. Each sorority made its own decorations and bought supplies, so no fundraising was required to finance the event, Fenerty said.Sororities will not offer treats to trick-or-treaters Saturday night, she said.–Contact Ben Bourgeois at [email protected]