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Rutgers Students Show Up Big For Home Football Game Despite Petition To Boycott

A petition last week "calling for students to boycott Rutgers football games until the school reinstates The Alley tailgating area drew more than 2,000 signatures, but the section of 10,000 seats was mostly full by the end of the first quarter of Saturday's 14-7 loss to Iowa," according to Ryan Dunleavy of the Newark STAR-LEDGER. The "threat of a boycott stemmed from Rutgers administration cancelling The Alley -- a first-year creation designed to give 21-year-old and older students somewhere to tailgate close to High Point Solutions Stadium -- over 'safety concerns.'" The Alley was "spawned from student leadership" meeting with Rutgers AD Pat Hobbs and football coach Chris Ash to "request a convenient organized spot for tailgating." Rutgers athletics is "working on an alternate solution to satisfy students, but university President Robert Barchi did not offer much room for optimism when he called it 'a disaster waiting to happen.'" Dunleavy noted Rutgers attendance was "up to 44,061 against Iowa after dipping to a three-year low" the week before for its game against New Mexico (Newark STAR-LEDGER, 9/25). In New Jersey, Jerry Carino noted the Rutgers Riot Squad's "vision for a unified student gathering before football games, one that they worked with the athletics department to create this season, got rejected after two games because turnout was so high." Barchi "nixed it, in essence, for being too successful" (ASBURY PARK PRESS, 9/25).

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