Planning for away games impossible

This week has proven that Parking Services is no longer the most hated office on campus.

While the home ticket situation continues to brew riots, some of us veterans also are feeling the results of a greedy and incompetent ticket office. For years now, I have planned to go to every road game during my senior year with a group of buddies.

As I checked my dwindling account balance online, I was appalled to see I was charged only $190! Three away tickets? How could I spend three years at this school, have more than 120 credits recognized by the registrar, yet still be denied my tickets to LSU, Auburn, and USC? A conspiracy.

A chat at the ticket office confirmed what I had already assumed – the ticket office has no idea what it’s doing. The concept of the away ticket announcement 10 days before a game in Arizona had not even dawned on our fearless leaders.

How can they expect students to make a plan to travel westward 10 days before the event?

How can I, a die-hard and well-travelled fan, not be granted three tickets? Why are my 30+ AP and exemption credits a penalty to my ticket allocation? And why do three Orbit buses arrive together every 45 minutes?

BRETT KODISH
Senior, Johns Creek
Biology

Not enough time given to register

I tried to get tickets, and was told I didn’t exist. By the time it was straightened out, the arbitrary 24-hour window had closed. Not a single ticket. Not even a chance at a ticket. “Higher demand” is only one of the many excuses they gave, along with “problems with the server,” etc. Why 24 hours, if they knew there were serious problems?

I wonder if the thousands of us “accidentally” (read conveniently) screwed came and made a formal protest outside the stadium at the beginning of the game, if we could get some attention. A few hundred people with signs decrying the shoddy treatment of students regarding their home team might get some media attention.

It’s clear administration will ignore students unless pressured by public esteem.

CHRIS YOUNG
Junior, Danielsville
Engineering

Distribution of tickets unfair

Students are unhappy about how many tickets they got, but I want to mention another concern.

In previous years, the tickets were handed out from best to worst over the course of the week, rewarding those who had more hours. This year different windows are handing out different sections, so people with the most class hours who waited in line on the first day can end up with worse tickets than those picking up later on. Fair?

Also, this policy was never explained to students – if it had been, people wouldn’t have been waiting in line early.

LAUREN PINSON
Junior, Watkinsville
International Affairs and Public Administration