Underage driving a bigger problem than alcohol

After perusing your site, I saw that comments will soon be disabled and I want my commentary to be heard! Anyways, why is everyone worrying so much about underage drinking? The real problem is underage driving on campus. Every time I visit Athens for a game or just nostalgia, I always see at least seven under-sixteeners driving students to campus or home from downtown!

How can you let this continue in good conscious?!?

Alison Green
Alumna, Lilburn
Psychology

Loosen ‘reigns’ of ticketing policy

I find it particularly puzzling that the new ticketing policy does not allow someone who cannot attend the game to lend their fellow STUDENT friend their ID to be used to get into the game.

After my friend was denied, I received an e-mail warning, letting me know that I could pick up my ID from the Bulldogs Bucks office, but if my “ID misuse” was recorded again, then I would face “judicial action and/or loss of ticket purchasing privileges for future athletic events, including football.”

Judicial action for allowing a UGA STUDENT into the game when otherwise the ticket would go to waste? This seems a bit ridiculous.

The current system only allows student ticket holders who cannot attend the game to donate back tickets to the Athletic Association, at which time the ticketing office will distribute the ticket to a random student that received a half-season package. I am unsure if these students have to pay for the already once purchased ticket, but if so, that is truly highway robbery. The idea that you can purchase something outright and cannot use it as you please does not sit well.

The reins need to be loosened on the new ticket policy, as my friend was told to either walk away or face arrest. Arrest for trying to enter the game with a valid ticket. Bring back the physical tickets. Not only were they better defining as to where one could find their seat, but also made for better souvenirs. Unless I buy an overpriced program inside the game, I have no evidence that I ever attended the game. I have no plans of framing my student ID as I did with my physical football tickets during undergrad.

Brandon Lieblich
Grad. Student, Roswell
Sports management and policy

Editors’ actions truly ‘shameful’

Seriously? This is the new policy? Try to be bigger cry babies. No try. Really. I dare you.

Did you do it? No? I’m not surprised. The way the editors have been running this no longer glorious paper is shameful. This is not a professional choice, it is a cowardly one.

If you’re looking for employers with this type of behavior, you will never find a job.

Stephen Wilson
Alumni, Acworth
Journalism