Student organizations wishing to tailgate on the LSU Parade Ground will have a new set of guidelines following recent incidents of violence and drinking.
Each organization has between noon Monday and noon Wednesday the week before the game to register a tailgate. Each approved organization will have an assigned 30 x 30 feet area roped off by 10 unmovable trash cans. The organization cannot set up before 8 a.m. on gameday, and will be required to check-in with University officials upon arrival.
Organizations cannot have a tent larger than 10 x 10 feet, but can have up to four tents inside their area. The organization’s name must be posted on the tent, and they cannot have walls or binders to shield view.
Tailgates cannot have common source drink containers, glass containers, tablecloths, furniture (with the exception of folding chairs, lawn chairs and tables), stages or other structures, vehicles of any kind, tent walls, drapes or stakes to anchor tents. Tents must be anchored with weights that do not dig into the Parade Ground turf.
Tailgates must be cleaned up before the game begins, Dean of Students Mari Fuentes-Martin said. Tents must be taken off the Parade Ground, and all trash must be cleaned up. 
Fuentes-Martin said new policies were already likely to come as a result of multiple incidents of tailgating violence before the Chattanooga game Sept. 9, but the potential hazing-related death of Maxwell Gruver and the subsequent suspension of Greek Life resulted in University officials taking a larger look at campus culture.
“I think safety and security were a concern after [the Chattanooga game], but the excessive use of alcohol by Greek organizations with the death in a [potential hazing-related incident], made us at LSU look at gameday behaviors in a very different way,” Fuentes-Martin said. “These measures are meant to be proactive from a safety perspective, to give students the space they want, which is the north Parade Ground, but wanting to have some safety parameters as well.”
Fuentes-Martin said the University’s Safety and Security Committee recommended the policies LSU President F. King Alexander and his executive cabinet approved. The committee is made up of representatives from administration units relating to gameday operations such as LSUPD, LSU Athletics and the LSU Office of Risk Management. The committee plans to reevaluate the policies following the game against Troy on Sept. 30.
Similar tailgating regulations were proposed in two April 2016 town hall meetings with the Dean of Students office. No policies were changed or introduced following mostly negative feedback from students.
“I know that students are students, but that doesn’t mean that they’re not still in an unsafe situation that we as administrators need to be thoughtful and careful about,” Fuentes-Martin said in a 2016 interview with The Daily Reveille. “I think ultimately what we want is safety and fun, and a balance between those two things.” 
The University has also been working on anti-hazing policies following Gruver’s death, and Fuentes-Martin said the policies are coming soon.
“[Alexander]’s office has been working on how to look at the bigger problem,” Fuentes-Martin said. “Chapter meetings, new member education, none of those things are moving forward [yet] because we feel like there needs to be more guidance.”