2008 Woodie Awards
Alcohol tickets pour in
Kelsey Beltramea and Ben Fornell - The Daily Iowan
Issue date: 10/1/07 Section: Metro
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Fines for drinking and other UI Homecoming excesses crept to more than $11,000 last weekend, a far cry from the nearly $20,000 in tickets issued during last year's festivities.
Although football fans at Homecoming had around eight fewer hours to drink than before the Sept. 8 game against Syracuse, they accumulated only around $2,000 less in citations.
The UI police have not yet filed their citations.
Tickets for drinking offenses were down from the last Hawkeye home game - some by nearly half - but the number cited for public intoxication rose from 25 on Sept. 8 to 42 on Sept. 29.
The citations break down as follows:
The Indiana game saw 17 citations for PAULA, five tickets for open containers, five OWIs, three for disorderly house, three for being in a bar under the age of 19, two fake ID charges, and two tickets for possession of marijuana.
"Many times we see a drop off in activity after the game," said Sgt. Bill Campbell of the Iowa City police, who said he typically works from around 2 p.m. to midnight on Saturdays. He said people often drink for a couple of hours after the game and then things get quiet around 5 p.m.
On Sept. 29, Campbell said, the department was busy all day.
Campbell said the rise in public-intoxication citations may have been due to Saturday's warm weather or the comparatively small number of Hawkeye home games this season.
"Typically, we've had a couple of home games by now," he said. "Maybe people were excited to go out and party."
E-mail DI reporters at:
daily-iowan@uiowa.edu
Although football fans at Homecoming had around eight fewer hours to drink than before the Sept. 8 game against Syracuse, they accumulated only around $2,000 less in citations.
The UI police have not yet filed their citations.
Tickets for drinking offenses were down from the last Hawkeye home game - some by nearly half - but the number cited for public intoxication rose from 25 on Sept. 8 to 42 on Sept. 29.
The citations break down as follows:
The Indiana game saw 17 citations for PAULA, five tickets for open containers, five OWIs, three for disorderly house, three for being in a bar under the age of 19, two fake ID charges, and two tickets for possession of marijuana.
"Many times we see a drop off in activity after the game," said Sgt. Bill Campbell of the Iowa City police, who said he typically works from around 2 p.m. to midnight on Saturdays. He said people often drink for a couple of hours after the game and then things get quiet around 5 p.m.
On Sept. 29, Campbell said, the department was busy all day.
Campbell said the rise in public-intoxication citations may have been due to Saturday's warm weather or the comparatively small number of Hawkeye home games this season.
"Typically, we've had a couple of home games by now," he said. "Maybe people were excited to go out and party."
E-mail DI reporters at:
daily-iowan@uiowa.edu
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