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ND Leaders React to “Crazy Bloggers and Internet Types” That have Complained about Gestapo Tailgate Tactics

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Find the entire release here.

And find most of it here:

University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., has appointed an ad hoc committee to review the on-campus safety, security and hospitality protocols and practices for football weekends.

“Many dedicated staff work extremely hard to welcome more than 85,000 people to campus each football weekend, ensure their safety, and make the Notre Dame football game-day experience one of the most enjoyable and celebrated in college athletics,” Father Jenkins said. “While proud of their work, they recognize that they can improve, and they look for every opportunity to do so.”

Father Jenkins has convened the 10-member committee to review protocols and practices, consider any concerns or suggestions that people wish to raise, and offer recommendations on how to make football weekends even better for students, faculty and staff, and alumni and other visitors to campus.

The University also has created a Web site (http://nd.edu/gameday) where people are invited to log in and offer observations and suggestions or express concerns about specific incidents.

The list is a collection of insiders for the most part, with maybe the exception of Bob Reish, the ND Student Body President. Kinda nice that a student is on the committee, no matter that it’s likely symbolic.

I really like that the school leadership is responding, though, and not in private or on the side – but publicly with a wide release press release. I don’t agree with everything the top brass do, but this is the correct response. I only hope that they’re able to reign in the freaking Excise Cops and get some balance back to the experience – safe and comfortable for 99% of us visiting on game day, but still fun and Irish-supporting raucousness to bring the noise and the passion back to ND stadium.

It’s do-able, it just takes the right leadership to get that done. I am hoping this step is the first in that direction.

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