A record-setting football attendance at Scott Stadium for the University's last home football game of the season against the University of Miami Saturday resulted in little deviance from the usual game day antics.
"Actually, it went rather well," Charlottesville Police Sgt. Steve Dillon said. "My understanding is that it was actually relatively quiet compared to other home games. There were no major felonies or even misdemeanor arrests. We had minor calls such as drunk in public, many calls for towed vehicles and that sort of thing, but nothing of great significance."
At Saturday's game, the stadium housed 63,701 fans and broke the previous record for attendance.
Hospital officials declined to comment on incidents related to the football game.
University Police Sgt. Tracie Craner said she did not have enough information to comment on the day as a whole, though she did not personally witness any problems.
Fourth-year Class President Kat Shea said she was pleased with student participation in the Fourth Years Acting Responsibly pledge group, run by the Fourth-Year Trustees. According to Shea, over 500 people signed pledges to drink responsibly this year.
"I saw lots of people at the game had their long-sleeve orange shirts on, which they got when they signed up," Shea said. "I just hope that the pledge drive helped awareness."
Shea said she thinks the "fourth-year fifth" tradition, of consuming a fifth of alcohol before the final home football game, is waning.
"I think since my first year the numbers have gone down," Shea said. "I feel that this year most people did not do it. Unfortunately, some people seem to think of it as a tradition and still do it. I feel that those numbers are very small though."
Three hundred and twenty-four people ran in the Fourth-Year 5K, organized by peer health educators and Student Health. The overall winner of the race was Arts and Sciences graduate student Jason Buczyna, and the fourth-year winners were College student Mike Elchinger and Engineering student Ashley Hallock.
Russell said that she was enthusiastic about the turnout, especially among younger runners.
"We collaborate with the Monticello High School chapter SADD [Students Against Destructive Decisions] group, and they contributed about 100 runners to the event," Russell said. "We're just happy to get them started on good decisions."
Russell said she was proud of everyone who came out to the event.
"I was kind of surprised because it was so early, but everyone seemed really happy to do something like this and proud of themselves for it," Russell said. "We were being part of a new tradition that we're trying to make more prevalent than the fourth-year fifth"
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