Seniors shafted by new ticket system

You caught onto my nefarious plot, Red & Black editors!

At some point during last semester, probably shortly after kicking a puppy, I decided I would stay on with the University for one more semester and take only six hours.

What was my motivation for this? Surely, it was not because the two classes I needed to finish my second degree were only offered in the fall.

No, I wanted to be here an additional semester because the thought of tears streaming down underclassmen’s cheeks brought me insurmountable joy.

I would take away their football tickets, namely all 4,800 of the freshmen all by myself – and then probably shortly thereafter I would tie a helpless damsel onto some railroad tracks.

But I suppose I should not fear. Maybe I’ll still get to taste these salty freshman tears yet!

Even though you reported that the new system would eliminate those sixth year seniors from getting tickets, from my understanding of the policy there is no such barrier.

Nothing stops the people who are taking over four years to achieve that first degree from still getting tickets, so long as they are full-time. They can still drop some classes before midpoint, and then go to a football game that very Saturday, like they have done for the past several years.

It seems the freshmen will still have to compete with those upperclassmen who are here solely on their daddy’s dime. They will still have to go behind the students who have done nothing but party for the past six years and are scraping by with a C- average.

Sorry Red & Black editors. The people who this policy excludes are those that fell victim to odd scheduling of major classes. It doesn’t exclude those people who have no vested interest in actually accomplishing something at the University.

But even worse, you guys have made it clear to the campus which you view to be the worse of the two evils, and obviously it is the former group of students.

KELLEY WEAVER
Senior, Maysville
Computer Science
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