UF president seeks to curb alcohol sales at UGA-Florida game

[MahxFahn]

University of Florida president J. Bernard Machen wants to cut the number of places alcohol is sold at the annual football game against Georgia in Jacksonville.
The Florida Times-Union reported Machen sent a letter earlier this week to Jacksonville Mayor John Peyton requesting more city investment in curbing binge drinking at the game once popularly known as the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.
The two longtime football rivals will meet Oct. 31 in Jacksonville.
Machen’s letter listed requests for the event that included, among other things, reducing the number of locations selling alcohol by 50 percent and completely prohibiting the sale of shots at the waterfront shopping area, Jacksonville Landing — a popular location for game revelers.
Student deaths in 2004 and 2005 led to the institution of Sideline Safe Zones. Machen told Peyton in a letter that he’d like these zones to grow and the amount of alcohol served at the game decrease.
Expressing his concerns in his letter, Machen alluded to seeing emergency crews at a previous game rush an underaged girl to the hospital because she was passed out drunk before noon.
“Despite these efforts … the two common denominators that contributed to the death of the two students have not been remedied,” Machen’s letter read.

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[J-ville Gator]

Hey Bernie! Just because you turned Gainesville into a non-fun zone around the Swamp with your B.S. politics, don't try and mess with the WLOCP. It was here before you and will be here after you're gone.

Keep your nose out of Jax! If you want to try and instill your "Mormonesque" crap, go back to Utah. This guys is REALLY starting to get on my nerves.