The Madison Police Department said it was concerned that the confluence of Homecoming with the annual Halloween celebration will lead to students indulging in dangerous levels of fun this weekend.
Police said that fun has always been a large problem at football games, especially big games like Homecoming.
But with these events coinciding with Freakfest, which has traditionally been one of the biggest weekends of the year for fun in Madison, police said they might be overwhelmed by the amount of fun they expect to be had.
When these events have coincided in the past, students have indulged in fun to the point where silliness reached obstructive levels and students reporting cases of the giggles hit their highest number since the release of “Wayne’s World” in 1992.
University officials said they encouraged students to seek alternatives to fun this weekend, such as attending the Homecoming Parade or forming study groups with like-minded peers.
