Early Saturday morning, students continued to spin the wheel of drinking fortune and bounce ping-pong balls into plastic beer cups.

But they had to cross Grand River Avenue to do it.

After MSU officials prohibited drinking games on campus, the tennis courts were noticeably quieter as students took their parties to the lawns of East Lansing.

City officials, however, reported a calm afternoon.

"We had a fairly typical weekend in East Lansing," City Manager Ted Staton said. "People behaved as they normally do."

Staton said he did not receive any noise or party-related calls from residents.

"We have a pretty complete set of laws to keep that kind of behavior from getting out of hand in the city," he said.

Overall numbers show the city was quieter than other football Saturdays, despite an "unusual" number of daytime drunken driving arrests, East Lansing police Sgt. Mark VandeWouwer said.

Only nine people spent the night in jail, as opposed to the football weekend average of 20, VandeWouwer said.

He added that he noticed several fraternity houses playing drinking games on the front lawn. Drinking outside in the city is legal as long as it's on private property. As soon as a resident steps onto the sidewalk or public grass, however, it becomes an open intoxication violation.

Gathered on the front lawn of a home on Division Street, marketing senior Molly Hanson and friends played drinking games Saturday while tailgating for the first time off campus.

"It's ridiculous," Hanson said. "They're taking all the fun out of it."

The group used to set up near the campus tennis courts, a popular spot for pre-football celebration.

"We don't want restrictions on hanging out with our friends," finance senior James Tunney said. "The (MSU) Board of Trustees is using this to meet their own goals."

Trustee Colleen McNamara said instituting guidelines was more about encouraging healthy tailgating than stopping on fun.

"In everything we do, we have to make sure that the students' safety is our top priority," McNamara said.

McNamara added that there was some concern that restricting tailgating would force more students to celebrate in the city.

"Everything we do on campus affects East Lansing," she said.

East Lansing City Councilmember Beverly Baten said communication between the groups has steadily improved for the last few years. She agreed that administrators need to keep in mind the consequences of moving the party mentality off campus.

"Let's hope that we just deal with it before it becomes a big problem," she said.

Staff writers Jaclyn Roeschke and Shannon Houghton contributed to this report.

Claire Cummings can be reached at cummin94@msu.edu. Liisa Bergmann can be reached at liisa@msu.edu.