Public Safety and police officers were enforcing a new rule, which went into effect this fall, that limits tailgating to three hours before and one hour after sporting events. Tailgating during games has been banned.
To enforce the tailgating times, “Princeton University Public Safety requested assistance [from Township police to] disperse a large group of individuals,” Police Detective Sgt. Ernie Silagyi said in an interview Monday.
Public Safety Deputy Director Charles Davall confirmed in an e-mail that township officers provided assistance, adding that it was a nearby police officer, not a Public Safety officer, who called for the additional help. The clearing of tailgaters occurred when the game started at 1 p.m.
“We called the township to ask them to have their one officer who was assigned to the Broadmead lot to come to the lot,” Davall said in an e-mail. “That officer apparently thought that, due to the crowd size, more officers were needed to clear the lot. We didn’t call for extra officers.”
Four officers responded and helped Public Safety officers clear the crowd. “There weren’t any problems,” Davall explained.
The University instituted these regulations after last year’s home football game against the University of Pennsylvania, when tailgaters started two bonfires and left “excessive amounts of trash” on the lot by Broadmead Street, near Princeton Stadium, University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ’96 said.
Last spring, the University “started convening to talk about [how] to prevent an occurrence of the amount of open burning and trash and parking chaos that was out there,” she said.
The result was increased control of tailgating times, a change that allowed Public Safety to better patrol sporting events. In the past, the department sometimes “did not have the resources to be [at the tailgates] and the stadium at the same time,” Cliatt said.
Also new this fall were signs posted by the University listing rules that were already in place. “We wanted to make sure people could not plead ignorance,” Cliatt said, adding that the signs noted the existing ban on open fires and alcohol use for those under 21, among other rules.
Alcohol was apparently a factor in the fight that was broken up by Public Safety officers.The two students involved declined to press criminal charges against one another, Davall said.
It is unclear whether the students were involved in a fraternity pledge task when they began wrestling over a football and ended up in a retention basin, which was full of water. The incident occurred at 12:40 p.m. and was classified as “assault-simple” in Public Safety’s crime log.
One of the students “was acting in a violent manner by wrestling with and putting a chokehold on another student,” Davall said.
The student who put the other in a chokehold was temporarily detained and handcuffed, but he was not arrested.
Both students have been referred to the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students for disciplinary proceedings.
The names of the students will not be released, Davall said, because charges were not filed and discipline cases are not public.
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