Ticket Procedure Posted

[KenP]

What charities are the hockey players supporting this year?  The line would be a great opportunity for fans to meet the players, and for some charitible panhandling.

[KeithK]

I respect the desire to help others.  I just think it is wrong to force people to do unpaid service work.  Also, one of the goals of such service requirements is often to try to instill a particular ethic in the participants.  I think that coercion works against this goal.

Not long ago you wrote that a student who really made hockey a priority would be willing to get another job. I guess if the student really really makes hockey a priority, he or she will let the University pick the job.

Heh.  If I were still a student and the University instituted a service requirement for season hockey tickets then I'd suck it up and do it.  But I still wouldn't like it.

[French Rage]

Sadly, through all this discussion, it would be easiest and make the most sense to just let people line up when they want to.  I know that will never happen, but someone needs to chime in and say that at least once a week or so.

[CKinsland]

I respect the desire to help others. I just think it is wrong to force people to do unpaid service work.

As somebody with connections to a few of the major users of volunteer labor in the Ithaca area (Loaves and Fishes, a soup kitchen, being a major one), I'll say that those organizations don't necessarily enjoy having "coerced volunteers" working for them.  L+F typically has a few days with mobs of students fulfilling their community service requirements.  Often, not always, many (not all) of the "volunteers" are sullen, surly, lazy, unwilling to do the "grubby" jobs and, in many ways, pull down the productivity of the normal, "volunteer volunteers". They are just there to clock a certain number of hours, and don't get into the spirit of giving (again, some to many, but not all).  

I guess my point is that you could require people to clock time pretending to volunteer, but it may not really help the community in a big way.  

So, I'm agreeing with KeithK that, all in all, the idea isn't great.  I mean, I love the idea of getting Cornellians to give more of themselves to the community, but I don't think coercion (or bribery, or however you would qualify this system) is the way to do it.

Anyway, I'm a townie, with season tickets I've had for years, so the ticket procedure discussion really has nothing to do with me. (Besides my desire to see students in the stands, preferably before the puck drops).

CK

[ebilmes]

Already into the 500s as of early in the afternoon today. I seem to remember things were a little quieter until the last couple days last year.

[Ronald '09]

Picked up number 588 at around 4:45 today.  There was a pretty long line behind us.

[grizzdan24]

I got number 766 and senior number 256 today at 12:45p.

[Trotsky]

[quote French Rage]Sadly, through all this discussion, it would be easiest and make the most sense to just let people line up when they want to.  I know that will never happen, but someone needs to chime in and say that at least once a week or so.[/quote]And somebody needs to second it.  But the odds (and benefit) of it happening are exactly the same as the odds that Collegetown Bagels will be magically transformed back into Olivers.

[CKinsland]

On the other hand, it has a genuine attempt to boost sales of the Big Red Sports Pass.

So, pardon me if this is information that everybody else already knows.

I, in my supreme foolishness, went and bought a Sports Pass from the website http://sportspass.cornell.edu/, thinking "Hey, fantastic deal.  It'll pay for itself in volleyball and lacrosse alone, plus I can go to basketball, women's hockey, whatever."  Now I was a little taken aback by the option to pay on my bursar bill (since I'm an employee, not a student), but it didn't say "students only" anywhere on the fricken webpage and it happily let me pay by credit card.  Of course, as everybody but me probably knows (and I don't know how, but whatever), the Sports Pass is students only.  There is, however, a Sports Passport http://cornellbigred.com/News/general/2007/8/31/07BRPassport.asp?path=general which is available to all (with a reduced rate for kids and CU employees).  

Poor kids at the ticket office...apparently they've been handling quite a few people who show up to collect their Sports Pass, only to be told that it is for students only.  One would think they would, someplace on the webpage, state that it is for students only, especially since there is a nice big button for the Sports Pass off the CornellBigRed.com homepage which is presumably frequented by plenty of non-student fans.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to getting my $49 worth of non-hockey sports out of my pass this year (and, in a hockey note, I'm ecstatic that I finally managed to get all 4 of my season tickets together instead of 2 pairs separated by several rows and seats).

CK

[Robb]

[quote CKinsland]

Anyway, I'm looking forward to getting my $49 worth of non-hockey sports out of my pass this year...[/quote]

You mean "passport," right? Don't want to be confusing...  ;-)

[grizzdan24]

Anybody know where the line numbers ended today?

[amerks127]

My friend picked up about #1600 for the undergrad line and about #450 for the senior line at 4pm today.

[CollegeHockeyAddict]

Hi Everybody,

I am a big fan of college hockey but have never been to Lynah.  I have however heard alot of good things about the atmosphere at Lynah.  As a result, I would really like to go to either the Friday November 2nd game against Princeton or the Saturday November 3rd game against Quinnipiac.  I don't live in the area so any help on the best way to purchase 1 ticket for either of these games would be great appreciated.

Thanks
CollegeHockeyAddict

[fullofgas]

Get to Lynah before 6 PM and stand outside the doors for the box office.  You can almost definitely find someone selling tickets there for face value.  You should also try the box office because sometimes there will be tickets available.  I have a friend who comes up for games often and has never not gotten in.  Good luck and enjoy one of the best sports experiences known to man!::burnout::

[Oat]

Why are the Long Islanders getting picked on?

(Not that I am one or anything...)