The Penn State Board of Trustees approved a proposal by Penn State Athletics to sell alcohol to the general public during home football games in a Friday afternoon meeting.

The start date for the sales has yet to be finalized and will be announced at a later date, according to a university news release,

The motion had five "no" votes.

Penn State joins eight other Big Ten programs and approximately half of Power Five programs in selling beer and/or wine in public areas at football games.

Alcohol was previously sold since 2016 in the club and suites areas at Beaver Stadium, along with Pegula Ice Arena. According to a news release from earlier this month, revenue from alcohol sales will be “utilized on deferred maintenance projects at Beaver Stadium.”

According to the plan presented to the Board of Trustees by Penn State Athletics and partner OVG Hospitality, there will be 74 new point of sale locations for alcohol between Beaver Stadium’s field, concourse and club levels. The materials state that “Beer stations will be placed in areas away from student seating sections to discourage easy access / product merchandising,” and diagrams in the materials show that there will be no points of sale on the south end of the stadium — where the student section is located — outside of the upper deck.

There will be five options (three domestic, two specialty) for purchase in 16 oz. aluminum cans, with the domestic options priced at $10 and the specialty options priced at $12. Only beer will be sold, as hard seltzer was removed from the updated proposal. Payment will be cashless, and there will be a maximum of two drinks per person at a time. Every person purchasing beer will have their ID scanned, and purchasers will receive a wristband, athletic director Pat Kraft said during the Board of Trustees meeting. Sales will conclude at the end of the third quarter.

According to the materials, Beaver Stadium plans to use up to 150 vending staffers at the 74 locations, while OVG Hospitality will initially bring in eight-to-10 additional managers for support before scaling that number back over time. You can view a PDF of the plan here.

The university also created a task force to monitor the plan and its impact. That task force is made up of members from campus, the community, Mount Nittany Medical Center, Penn State Health, local public service officials and the athletic department.

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