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(09/30/05 5:09am)
Aggressiveness isn't just an attribute IU softball team members have -- it's also an attribute of the coaches.\nJust take first-year assistant coach Michelle Puls as an example. During a practice earlier this year, she said she was criticized by some of her players for not getting dirty and diving for a ball. \nWhen the opportunity arose for Puls to lay out for a ball later, she dove.\nThat kind of aggressive play is what players like freshman shortstop Stephanie Pellerito say compels them to pay more attention to their coaches.\nHead coach Stacey Phillips and assistant coaches Tarrah Beyster and Puls comprise a coaching staff that is nearly as young and agile as its players. \nPhillips and Beyster are only five years removed from their collegiate careers -- Phillips played at Michigan State and Beyster at Oregon State. Puls is eight years removed from playing at the University of Maine. \nShe said IU's softball team has an advantage with a young coaching staff. \n"It drives me nuts when I see a coach sitting on a bucket," Puls said.\nPellerito said the team can learn a lot more from the coaches because they are more active.\n"All the coaches (for other teams) are old," Pellerito said. "How many teams have people pitching to them?"\nWhether diving for a fly-ball or just playing catch, Phillips believes an active staff will create a better team. \n"We do have a very solid staff in that we can show them how to do it," she said. "We have a competitive advantage in that the players can try to beat their coaches."\nOn Sept. 25, that competitive advantage paid off. \nThough playing only three innings due to rain, the Hoosiers jumped out to a 4-0 lead against Eastern Illinois University. The Hoosiers had their second and third games against Indiana State University and Parkland College cancelled as well. \nPhillips said she was disappointed IU couldn't finish the games since she believes the offense was really coming alive. \nBut she tried to keep things in perspective.\n"I can't complain too much on the rain, considering what the folks down South are getting," she said, also noting the Hoosiers enjoyed the time off.\nThe Hoosiers will play host to Butler University and the University of Louisville at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Sunday at the IU softball field.
(09/27/05 5:11am)
Sisters Abigail, Hannah and Sarah Biddle go to church at Martinsville Baptist Tabernacle and are enrolled in IU's pre-college music program. Abigail, 17, plays the harp and sings in church choir. Hannah, 15, plays the cello and piano and wants to become a musical score composer. Sarah, 13, plays the harp and the piano and is the baby of the family.\nLike most multi-talented students, they can carry quite a load -- only their loads regularly exceed 200 pounds.\nIn addition to their musical talents, the sisters are national and world record-holding powerlifters.\nAbigail has lifted 300 pounds in the dead lift, and Hannah hopes to be able to put up a combined 600 pounds in the dead lift and the squat by the time she turns 18. A dead lift involves lifting a barbell to waist level. Sarah has lifted 185 pounds in the dead lift, and hopes to break the 200-pound mark by the fall, and the 250-pound mark by the winter -- more than double her own weight of 105 pounds.\nThe girls were motivated to start powerlifting from watching their father, Brent Biddle, lift at the Martinsville YMCA.\n"I wasn't old enough to go in the weight room without my dad," Abigail said. "So I would go in there and use the machines (with him). My dad started getting machines at home that we could use." \nOnce Brent realized his daughters' potential, he began researching different powerlifting tournaments in which his daughters could compete.\nIn April 2004, the girls entered their first powerlifting competition in Texas. During that competition, Abigail and Hannah each set four Indiana state records, and Sarah set nine. \nSince then the girls have dominated every competition they've entered. They swept the 2004 World Powerlifting Association Championships held in Montreal and the 2005 WPA Championships held in Nashville, Tenn.\nThe trio plans to travel to Germany and Finland in the next few months for more international competition. \nBut their success comes with more than just a physical cost.\nIn addition to the fatigue the sisters experience during workouts and competition, they also face criticism from their peers. \n"A lot of people I know think it's unfeminine and that it's not right for a lady to be (lifting)," Hannah said. "I just brush them off, and I use it for motivation to lift more."\nThe girls' father said their musical involvement proves their femininity. \n"Boys will always say 'What are you trying to be, a man?' I'm not raising tomboys," Brent said. "If I gave them a choice between a pretty outfit and a tomboy outfit, they'd choose the pretty outfit." \nLauri Wood, the girls' music teacher at Martinsville Baptist Tabernacle, credits Brent with keeping the girls levelheaded when facing criticism.\n"He's the type to override negative comments their peers might say to them," Wood said. "He's the type to put things in perspective." \nBrent said he has the advantage of being a 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week coach. And in that time he has noticed a bit of competitiveness between the sisters -- especially between Abigail and Hannah since they are in similar weight divisions.\n"They're competitors," Brent said. "They'll try to outdo each other. For instance, one time they were tied going into their last lift and they wouldn't tell each other what their last lift would be."\nHe said he tries use their competitiveness to their advantage and make it a positive.\n"A few tournaments ago, we were both trying to lift 300 pounds, and we just started trash talking to each other," Hannah said. "We were just joking, but we were kind of serious, too. It's good to have a push. If I was an only child, I would have quit by now." \nWhile the older two share a healthy sibling rivalry, both believe Sarah is the best out of the three of them.\nTheir father agrees.\n"Pound for pound, out of the three sisters, she's the strongest -- without a doubt," Brent said. "Little Sarah, she just wants to beat everybody."\nBut Sarah is quick to point out that her maximum weight is still smaller than that of her older sisters. In fact, she said if she ever outlifted her sisters, she hopes they would lift even more so they would still have better records than she.\n"I like sharing the spotlight with my sisters because they're my inspiration," Sarah said. "If anyone's going to be an Olympic lifter, it's Hannah. She's got the build."\nThough Sarah typically places first in the competitions she enters, sometimes she wishes it weren't that way.\n"I don't want to be on top all the time. What's the fun if when you compete all the time you're on top?" Sarah said.\nA second later she confessed, "But I do like to be on top most of the time"
(09/23/05 6:08am)
IU and other Indiana public schools are not doing enough to bridge the educational achievement gap, according to a report filed Monday by a University program.\nThe report, conducted but the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, concluded the achievement gaps between poor and wealthy students and between white and nonwhite students remain wide in Indiana, despite increased efforts.\nThe CEEP is a non-partisan, self-funded research center that provides clients with program evaluations.\nAccording to the report, Indiana's nonwhite students are more likely to test lower than their white counterparts. The 2004-2005 10th grade ISTEP, the Graduation Qualifying Exam, revealed a 38 percent difference in passing percentage between white students and African American students. The gap between white students and Hispanic students is 30 percent. Asian students test 8 percent better than white students.\n"By the end of grade four, low socioeconomic and minority students lag behind their peers by two years, and this gap widens to three years by grade eight. By high school, the average African American and Hispanic senior is four years behind," the report stated.\nTerry Spradlin, associate director for the CEEP and primary author of the report titled, "Is the Achievement Gap in Indiana Narrowing?", said gaps in K-12 education could potentially create problems for IU.\n"It will create a disparity at the university level if the K-12 system is unsuccessful," Spradlin said. "If our elementary and secondary education level falls short, it is sure to have an impact."\nSpradlin said the report was written to provide education officials with a comprehensive assessment of the state's achievement gap, as well as provide solutions on how to fix it. The report also attempted to show how Indiana is progressing with No Child Left Behind legislation.\nThe U.S. Department of Education said NCLB has helped bridge the achievement gap throughout the nation.\n"According to the nation's report card, in the past five years we've made more progress in closing the achievement gap than we have in the past 30 years," said Chad Colby, deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Education.\nBut the CEEP report said Indiana has made little, if any, progress to meet NCLB's goals.\nAccording to the report, four factors contribute to the achievement gap in Indiana: poverty, early childhood education, teacher quality and track systems.
(09/23/05 5:39am)
Stepping onto the mound in the bottom of the seventh inning Saturday, senior Megan Roark had no idea she was pitching for a no-hitter. But she preferred it that way.\nRoark compiled nine strikeouts and a no-hitter en route to the Hoosier's 1-0 victory over Illinois-Chicago Saturday. \nRoark thought she gave up a hit in the first inning of the game. So when she had to face the heart of Illinois-Chicago's lineup in the last inning, she thought the only thing she had to preserve was the Hoosiers' slim lead.\n"I wasn't really thinking about it," Roark said. "The team was doing well the whole weekend. It wasn't on my mind. I was glad I didn't know."\nRoark said she might have psyched herself out had she known about the no-hitter. After finishing the last out, she was congratulated by Illinois-Chicago's coaches.\nBut Roark is quick to shy away from credit for her performance. \n"I didn't think I dominated anybody," she said. "The defense had a great game. They made some spectacular plays." \nUnfortunately for Roark, the game was a preseason exhibition game, so it wasn't officially scored, and the no-hitter won't count.\nThe team was 3-1-1 during the weekend, also compiling wins against Lewis and Olivet Nazarene. In addition to Roark's nine, the team struck out 45 batters last weekend. Senior Mariangee Bogado struck out 23 batters in two games, and freshman Aubrey Hayes struck out 13. \nIU head coach Stacey Phillips was impressed with the defensive performance and said the key to future wins is scoring more runs. The team has scored only six runs in five games.\n"Offensively, with six days of practice, you're not going to go out and shell the ball," Phillips said. "We need to get a little more competitiveness in us." \nAssistant coach Michelle Puls said the team has focused on offense this week in practice.\n"We're not just hitting the ball," Puls said. "We're working on hitting a low, outside pitch down the line into right-field."\nThis weekend the Hoosiers will travel to the Indiana State Championships to face Eastern Illinois, Indiana State and Parkland College.
(09/16/05 5:37am)
IU is working with the state to bring bigger companies to Indiana, but nobody is sure how IU's advancements will increase jobs for students.\nRepresentatives from Advancing Indiana spoke to the board of trustees Thursday at the Indiana Memorial Union to convince it IU would benefit from increased involvement in the state's economic development. Bill Hunt, chairman of Advancing Indiana, said by increasing technology flow, Indiana can help lure new businesses to the state and in turn increase jobs for IU graduates.\nBut trustee Clarence Boone is more skeptical.\nDuring the meeting, Boone pointed out how increased technology in Gary has led to fewer jobs. \n"How are we going to find jobs for these individuals?" Boone asked Hunt.\n"We don't know how we can do that," Hunt said.\nHunt said if all goes to plan, students will be able to benefit from Advancing Indiana.\nIU President Adam Herbert agrees.\n"I think this session dealt with why the University is attempting to reach out to provide greater services for the state," Herbert said. "The partnerships we create will create new jobs and new opportunities for the students. We want to reverse the brain drain."\nHerbert believes fostering economic relationships will change the way people in the state perceive IU.\n"It clearly enhances the value of the degree, so people around the state can recognize how good we are," he said.\nBy assisting in the creation BioCrossroads, an organization that encourages life science development in Indiana, Hunt said IU has made strides in luring new businesses to Indiana that might have otherwise gone elsewhere. Advancing Indiana also hopes to share technological resources between the University and businesses to attract growth.\nTo facilitate such development Advancing Indiana will create an economic development leadership council comprised of IU stakeholders. The council will be made up of two bodies, one internal and one external, and will have representatives from all regions of the state.\nHunt said having a student sit on the council would benefit Advancing Indiana.\n"Students are a constituency," Hunt said. "It would give us a point of view of someone from IU. I will advise our leaders to promote that."\nHunt said there are a lot of logistics Advancing Indiana needs to work out, but the council will probably seat 25 to 35 people.\nTrustee Sue Talbot said student involvement is instrumental to the success of Advancing Indiana. She said contacting IUSA President Alex Shortle in addition to leaders of Hoosiers for Higher Education and the Kelley School of Business will be top priorities.\n"There is a student role," she said. "I think Bill (Hunt) has a good idea; we have to include stakeholders. Well, students are our stakeholders."\nKyle Salyers, executive director of Advancing Indiana, said it is also crucial Advancing Indiana "supports and enables a breakthrough of strategic, high-impact wins" and institutionalizes the University's engagement and outreach function.
(09/16/05 5:16am)
The women's softball team ended last season with a 3-2 loss to rival Purdue. This last game was one of eight Big Ten games the Hoosiers lost by two runs or less. Head coach Stacey Phillips said she believes an improved pitching staff will turn those close losses into wins.\nThis weekend, Phillips begins her second year as softball coach -- her first without the interim tag -- when the team travels to the Chicagoland Classic in preseason action. During the offseason, the team acquired two new assistant coaches, Tarrah Beyster and Michele Puls.\nPhillips said the addition of Beyster will greatly improve the pitching staff. \n"Coach Beyster is one of the best pitching coaches in the country," she said. \nBefore arriving at IU, Beyster was a standout collegiate player at Oregon State, where she was part of a nationally-ranked Beaver team. Following her collegiate career, Beyster gave private pitching lessons to young players and later took on a role as assistant coach at Bradley University.\nBeyster said the key to improving IU's pitching staff is teaching it what pitches do.\n"If you don't know what pitches do, you won't know how to use them," Beyster said. "You need to know when a pitch breaks and where it is going to break to."\nAdditionally, Beyster said an adjustment in the pitchers' mentalities will create better pitching situations.\n"I teach them not to be dependent of me," she said. "I teach them to be dependent of themselves -- to be independent. I teach pitchers to be their own best pitching coach."\nShe said that means getting ahead in counts and being aggressive -- using pitching as an offensive tool.\n"There's no excuse to go to a three-ball count," Beyster said.\nLast year, the pitching staff's ERA was 3.33, well above their opponents' average ERA of 1.75. \nOutfielder Heather Hohs has noticed a difference in the pitching staff.\n"You can already see them improving," she said. "They worked a lot over the summer. It inspired all of us to work our butts off."\nFellow outfielder Lauren Hines thinks once the pitching staff improves, the softball team could be the best team in the Big Ten.\n"We've been pretty strong defensively," Hines said. "We need to keep the batting up. We're not settling with just being average. We have a lot of young talent. Everyone is working harder."\nHohs agrees. \n"I think we're going to have a breakout year," she said.\nThe Hoosiers will face Lewis University, Bradley University, the University of Illinois-Chicago, Olivet Nazarene University and DePaul University this weekend.
(09/14/05 5:32am)
IU-South Bend officials announced Monday plans to relocate the IUSB Elkhart Center from the west side of Elkhart, Ind., to a new building in the city's downtown. \nIn addition to providing classrooms for more than 1,500 students that are enrolled at the Elkhart Center, the new building will house a bookstore, a student lounge and offices for faculty and staff.\nThe building will cover 16,000 square feet and has an estimated cost of $2.5 million. IUSB officials and community leaders have been working in the past year to privately raise funds for the building. \nIlene Sheffer, IUSB vice chancellor for public affairs and university development, said the Elkhart Center deserves to have its own building.\n"Elkhart has been tremendously supportive of the IU system, and we've had classes at Elkhart since 1977," Sheffer said. "We are in rented space right now. The University wanted to have a permanent space that was theirs. We wanted a space for growth."\nCurrently, the Elkhart Center is located in the Key Bank building in a strip mall. \nThe Elkhart Center is one of two community centers for IUSB. Ken Baierl, director of communications and marketing for IUSB, said the Elkhart Center allows students from Elkhart who attend IUSB to take classes closer to home.\nThe other community center is in Plymouth, Ind. Classes for the Plymouth Center are held at Plymouth High School.\nIn addition to providing the Elkhart Center with its own building, community leaders hope the project will revitalize downtown Elkhart.\n"Having the Indiana University center in downtown Elkhart is a golden opportunity for our citizens," Elkhart Mayor David Miller said in the press release. "We are delighted." \nCity and University officials expect enrollment to increase as a result of the move.\nBaierl would not disclose how much money has been raised for the project but is assured the group will reach its multi-million dollar goal.\n"They've assured us that that's not going to be an issue," Baierl said. "I think if they reached they would either continue the fund raising until they got it or go back and make sure that they've tried." \nBaierl is confident IU will not face a bill if the group is short of what is needed to fund the project.\n"At that point a lot of decisions would have to be made on the future of the center," he said.\nStudents at the Elkhart Center cannot earn a four-year degree without taking courses at IUSB's main campus. Baierl said the center serves to complement the main campus, but he hopes it can one day house four-year degree programs.\nIn fall 2004, 7,501 students were enrolled at IUSB.
(09/14/05 5:26am)
After trying its hardest to crush the opponents on the field, there's nothing the IU women's rugby team loves to do more than down a few beers with them off the field. \nEvery home game and most away games for the IU Red Storm is followed with an interteam social where the two teams chat about rugby, sing rugby songs and drink. This weekend, the Red Storm will compete at Irish Fest, a rugby tournament that coincides with the Irish Festival in Indianapolis. \nAfterward, the Red Storm will join the other Irish Fest competitors for some fraternizing at the festival.\nThese socials help foster a better understanding of the game, junior Dawn Barber said.\n"It's a social game," Barber said. "Rugby's not a common sport, so there's that connection that we share with the other women. We love this game."\nAt the end of baseball, basketball and football games, opposing teams shake hands and go their separate ways.\n"You beat these people up on the field, and then we all have a beer," junior Julie Liszka said. "It's our way of shaking hands."\nSometimes a social is just what some players need to lift their spirits. After the game and before the social, the team will have a post-game meeting, which they call the "postmortem." During the postmortem, captains and coaches critique the game.\n"It's not something you really look forward to," senior Katie Cutshaw said. "Players are often criticized for their poor performance on the field during 'postmortem.'"\nBarber concurred.\n"They'll call you out if you mess up in the game on a consistent basis," Barber said. "They're going to tell you what you need to work on. It helps you realize how you can improve."\nAt Irish Fest, Cutshaw believes many new players will learn how to play rugby.\n"Everybody's pretty clueless until the first game," she said. "You don't know how to play rugby until you actually play a game."\nBarber thinks the addition of two new coaches has helped the development of younger players. \n"I think we're training a lot harder," she said. "The coaches are more active this year. Hopefully we'll be the best team in the state."\nPurdue and an Indianapolis women's team will also be competing at Irish Fest.
(09/12/05 6:28am)
Six people were arrested Saturday afternoon in Memorial Stadium's red lot after the start of the football game, but none were arrested for refusal to follow IU's new tailgating policy, according to the IU Police Department.\nSgt. Don Schmuhl said IUPD did not enforce the new policy, citing it would rather have individuals voluntarily comply. \nIUPD said it will not enforce the policy until they are directed to by the athletics department. IU Athletics Director for Game Management Kit Klingelhoffer could not be reached for comment.\nAfter kickoff, Schmuhl said two fights broke out, in which two people were arrested. Three people were arrested for public intoxication and one man was arrested for pouring beer onto a sheriff's car.\n"There was fairly light activity," Lt. Jerry Minger said. \nIUPD did not ask anyone to leave the parking lot after the game started.\nSchmuhl recognized there were fewer people at Saturday's game than at other games in the past. He said there is a need to enforce the policy, especially when more people attend.\n"If it continues to be a problem, then it's possible we may start enforcing it, but it's too early to tell yet," Schmuhl said. "As of right now, as far as I know, it's just a voluntary compliance request. If bigger crowds gather, and people don't go in, we'll have to look at something."\nSchmuhl said some people did leave the tailgating facility and enter the stadium, but most people on the northern part of the red lot didn't go into the stadium. That's where Schmuhl said IUPD had its problems.\nIn the future, he hopes they can help avoid those situations.\n"Any time you have acts of violence it's a problem," Schmuhl said. "Probably those people that have caused a problem, if they're not arrested, they'll be ejected. The people who are providing the alcohol to where the problem started will be told the party's over and will be told to leave the area."\nFreshman Erin Sweeney was glad IUPD didn't enforce the tailgating policy.\n"Well if people want to tailgate, then they should be allowed to tailgate," Sweeney said. \nShe said she is OK with the guidelines if IUPD doesn't remove people from the lots, but she admitted people are unlikely to follow the policy.\nAccording to the athletics department, pamphlets would be distributed to individuals in the parking lots, most people who walked to the lots were not given pamphlets.\nNext weekend, IU will host Kentucky, a rivalry game that drew 65,532 fans to Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Ky., last season.
(09/08/05 4:58am)
Apart from meetings of student religious organizations on campus, it's not too often the Gospels of Matthew and Luke are read aloud in Wright Quad. Wednesday night IU-Bloomington Interim Chancellor Ken Gros Louis brought the New Testament to Jordan Avenue in the inaugural speech of the Alpha Hall Lecture series. \nGros Louis presented the literary differences between the two Gospels in a 40-minute address to students, faculty and community members at Wright Quad's formal lounge. About 60 people attended the lecture.\n"I think the audience was very attentive, and that helps a lot," Gros Louis said. "This is a topic people would be familiar with."\nThe presentation, titled "History and the Individual: The Jesus Birth Stories in Matthew and Luke," was one Gros Louis is knowledgeable about, as he once submitted an essay on the topic to Bible Review magazine. He received a $500 prize for his submission.\nSenior Elliott Magers said while he enjoyed the topic, he was more interested in seeing Gros Louis speak.\n"I thought he did a fantastic job," Magers said. "Obviously he's had a lot of years of experience and knows how to engage students on an academic level."\nThe Alpha Hall Lecture Series is the brainchild of John Lawler, assistant director of academic initiatives and services for Residential Programs and Services. Lawler said the objective of the lecture series is to foster a relationship between residence hall students and members of the faculty. \n"A lot of students say they are intimidated by the faculty," he said. "A lot of our freshmen at IU don't have a good sense of who the faculty members are. When students hear of a professor's office hours, they kind of consider their office as hostile territory. We're trying to create an opportunity for students to socialize with the faculty at IU."\nLawler said they had considered bringing faculty into the residence halls to talk with students on a regular basis, but the schedules of faculty were too busy to create such a program.\nOwen Sutkowski, president of the Residence Halls Association, helped Lawler create the program. \n"This is something other universities do," he said. "We have such a great faculty here at IU. We want students to have a chance to hear these great minds speak. A lot of our older faculty members like Ken might leave before the younger students get to hear them. Likewise, a lot of our older students might not get to hear the new faculty members."\nHe said it also gives faculty a chance to speak about their hobbies -- something they might never have a chance to share with their students.\nGros Louis said he was happy to give the first speech of the series. \n"I would have even been happy to give the third speech," he said. "(Speaking first) might inspire other faculty members to be part of the program."\nThe lecture series will have five other lectures this year.\nThe series was named in honor of Alpha Hall, the first student residential center at IU, which will celebrate its 100-year anniversary next year.
(09/07/05 6:38am)
In four years as assistant athletic director for game management at IU, Kit Klingelhoffer has witnessed a police officer assaulted with a beer bottle, a large fight that partially closed down 17th Street and numerous arrests for anything from disorderly conduct to public urination. All took place in the parking lot.\nThis year he and other members of the athletics department created a policy in hopes they would curb what he called "unruly behavior."\nThe Indiana Football 2005 Fan Guide says, "Parking lots are reserved for those attending the football game, and patrons who enter these lots are expected to have game tickets." Any tailgate activities for all participants, even those with tickets, are expected to conclude within ten minutes after kickoff, according to the fan guide.\nKlingelhoffer said the policy will be enforced by IU Police Department. \nBut Capt. Keith Cash of the IUPD said they don't have the manpower to ask every individual in the parking lot for a ticket, much less escort them out.\n"With whatever officers we have, we'll try (to do our best)," Cash said.\nKlingelhoffer admits clearing the entire parking lot around Memorial Stadium is a lofty objective. He is more concerned with large groups congregating and becoming rowdy.\n"We've got to be concerned with the safety of every person," Klingelhoffer said. "To say we'll kick everyone out is unfair. We can't monitor what everybody is doing. It will be selective."\nHe said IUPD has the authority to enforce the policy if need be and by whatever means they deem necessary, including arrests.\nAnyone who enters the parking lot on game day will receive a pamphlet that outlines policies and guidelines of parking lot behavior.\nThe policy was written during the summer when Klingelhoffer and Associate Athletic Director for Facilities and Student Services Jack Garrett started a drive to include it in the fan guide. In doing so, they received the endorsement of IU Athletics, the IU Athletics Committee, the Office of the Dean of Students and IUPD.\nJunior Renee Lauver has tailgated before, and is upset with the new policy.\n"Don't most really good tailgating parties last all football game?" she said. "You paid for your ticket, you paid to park, so they have no right to kick you out."\nShe said the athletics department is justified for wanting to make the parking lot safer, but she thinks limiting the amount of time tailgaters have will only hurt school spirit.\n"Tailgating at football games is a tradition, right? So it's just another thing they put down to make less fun," she said. "Are they just trying to get people in the game?"\nPete Rhoda, director of athletic media relations, said getting fans into Memorial Stadium is one aim of the policy.\n"You've seen the ads," Rhoda said. "Crowds help win games. It's a combination (of security and attendance). Our directive is creating the best game-day experience possible."\nHe points out that student season ticket sales are up 56 percent from last year. \nGarrett agrees the policy has helped increase the number of tickets purchased. \n"What we're trying to do is incite some excitement with the fans and get them into the stadium," he said. "We want fans to enjoy the game from in the stadium and not from across the street."\nSome students think the policy will be beneficial.\nJunior John Thoe, who tailgates with his fraternity Sigma Chi, said though he doesn't agree with the limitations on tailgating, he can appreciate part of the policy.\n"Attendance should rise, and I've always wanted to go to a big football school," Thoe said. "So, that should be a plus." \nIf the policy is too strictly enforced, though, Thoe said he might stop coming to the stadium altogether.\nKlingelhoffer worries about the reaction tailgaters might have and stresses the importance of safety in the policy.\n"We're not a Gestapo agency," he said. "People are going to say, 'This is one more thing against the students,' but that's not what we're about. We want to create a safe environment."\nBut will it work?\nLauver doesn't think so.\n"Maybe they will tone it down," she said. "But, honestly, I think people will find a way to do whatever they want to do."\n-- Staff Writer James Klaunig contributed to this report.