Grab your favorite beer cozzie, slide in a nice cold one and walk on down to the Ohio State campus this Saturday for some good old-fashioned drinking.But don’t worry about getting caught. Odds say you won’t.Like a wild game refuge, the OSU campus has become a sanctuary for drinkers who can escape the hunters of High Street – namely, campus-area cops.According to University Police Chief Ron Michalec, whose force has nabbed only one open container violator in the past year, officers often overlook drinking on game days.”If they witness actual consumption of beer, they will give a warning,” Michalec said.University Police records support Michalec’s statement.In addition to the one open container violation for the past year, police records indicate only four underage drinking violations. No liquor citations were issued for the entire 1996 football season.Although thousands of tailgaters religiously camp outside Ohio Stadium on football Saturdays, one Ohio liquor enforcement official seemed unable to explain the lack of citations.”I don’t want to step on his (Michalec’s) jurisdiction,” said Leo Skinner, chief of public information at the Ohio Department of Public Safety. “But if our agents witnessed a violation, for sure they would cite them.”Skinner’s department, which oversees liquor enforcement in Ohio, works both with Columbus Police and as a separate agency to cite and prosecute liquor violations outside OSU’s borders. Although drinkers can feel safe on campus, once they leave, they may be in danger.Since the beginning of the year, Liquor Enforcement has made 137 arrests around campus for liquor related violations including underage possession, consumption and false identification.Included in these arrests were 10 citations at the Hineygate, located at the Holiday Inn on Lane, just a few hundred yards from Ohio Stadium.Skinner said his agents are most active during the beginning of the school year and football Saturdays. John Dill, Manager of Maxwell’s Bar on High Street, agrees.”Liquor agents come around about once every two weeks, looking for bartenders serving underage drinkers,” Dill said. “Although we’re pretty strict at the bar…they get on you for every little detail.”According to Ohio Department of Public Safety statistics, 32 citations have been levied against campus area establishments in the past year – most for the sale of liquor to underage drinkers. Skinner said in addition to scouting bars, his agents target keg parties and drinking on campus-area streets.Dave Waszil, a senior majoring in psychology, who was arrested last March for a fake I.D. at Panini’s Bar on High Street, believes police can be a little too overzealous.”Kids are going to do it anyway,” he said.Michalec said citations on campus are issued on a discretionary basis and depend on what the officer feels appropriate.”Whether it’s a true representation of what goes on, I don’t know,” he said.