Ticket Line Procedures

[melissaa]

point taken Ben - you smartass! ;-)

i think the reason he asked me to do it was because he felt I was too sarcastic (toward the AD) and too emotional the first time around ... which i grudgingly admit was the case. he recommended a formal letter with suggestions for change. as i've calmed down i think that this is possible. ben was right about the length of this thread. will start a new one.

[ssd\'05]

stop complaining.  if you care so much about tickets you would have shown up thursday night or friday morning and skipped all of your friday classes.  thats what it takes to get good seats, especially after a year like last.  if you are not willing to make a personal sacrifice, then you don't deserve tickets.  for those seniors who are complaining about the line forming before 4:45, i'm sorry, you should have known better after 4 years.   it never works out how they say it will.  but it is always the case that the people who care the most and put in the most sacrifice end up with the most coveted tickets.

[ugarte]

ssd'05 wrote:

stop complaining.  if you care so much about tickets you would have shown up thursday night or friday morning and skipped all of your friday classes.  thats what it takes to get good seats, especially after a year like last.  if you are not willing to make a personal sacrifice, then you don't deserve tickets.  for those seniors who are complaining about the line forming before 4:45, i'm sorry, you should have known better after 4 years.   it never works out how they say it will.  but it is always the case that the people who care the most and put in the most sacrifice end up with the most coveted tickets.

Seriously, ssd.  There is no way that is true.  The reports of rampant cutting, not to mention the bad faith on the part of the university, makes the gripes of those that followed the rules legit.  Especially in light of the early evidence of ticket scalping (are the scalpers really the most dedicated fans?).

Of course ssd is right that the university's failures were predictable and should have been planned for.  It isn't so much "blame the victim" (as Cornell and those who cut (rather than anticipated Cornell's failings and arrived early) are still the primary malefactors), but more about "those who don't learn from history. . ."



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[CowbellGuy]

Listen, every time the cops broke up the line, they said the same thing. "If we see you back here again before 4:45 on Friday, we're going to take your ID, JA you if you don't have one, and won't let you get tickets." So people that were in line on Thursday and didn't come back until the cops said to got completely screwed. So bite me, ssd.

[Newman \'98]

For those of you who got screwed, I thought I might offer some suggestions from my time on the hill on how to get to see some games without season tickets.  Some have been mentioned here already.

1: Buy tix in Section O from other schools.
2: Buy from Scalpers outside the rink.
3: Go on a road trip.  Many other schools don't sell out their rinks, so you may be able to get to see the team play there.  Just as Cornell sends tickets for Section O to other schools, you can usually buy tickets for away games right at the Cornell ticket office.  You won't get the real Lynah experience, except perhaps at Bright, but sometimes it can be just as much fun to be one of a dozen or so hard-core faithful who show up to watch the team play in Kalamazoo.
4: If you play an instrument, join the pep band.  It may not be too late to accumulate enough points by playing at other sporting events this year in order to get into at least some hockey games.
5: If you're a member of some other group group, try contacting the Hockey Boosters and see about having your group volunteer to sell 50/50 raffle tickets.  You'll need to show up well before game time, and you'll probably miss the first few minutes of the action, but at least you'll be in.

[jtwcornell91]

Don't forget the eLynah ticket exchange ("Ticket Exchange" link at left)!

[Will]

Or, if you're feeling particularly bold, you can always hack the Athletics database, download a list of ticketholders, hunt them down, kill them, and take their tickets.  ::screwy:: But if you do that, uh, stay away from section G, please? ;-)

[Cornell Fan]

ssd'05 wrote:

stop complaining.  if you care so much about tickets you would have shown up thursday night or friday morning and skipped all of your friday classes.
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if you are not willing to make a personal sacrifice, then you don't deserve tickets.

Absolutely NOT true. I care a lot about tickets and I would have been willing to line up a day or two ahead of time to get them.  I, like many other very rabid faithful who ended up not getting tickets, made the mistake of believing athletics when they said in the official procedure flyer and were quoted in the newspaper as saying they were going to crack down on people showing up early, and if you did, you would lose your ability to buy any tickets altogether.  So you can go fuck yourself and your "personal sacrifice."  ::asshole::

ssd'05 wrote:
but it is always the case that the people who care the most and put in the most sacrifice end up with the most coveted tickets.

Or, some people put in a degree of sacrifice, and then let 30+ of their buddies cut in front of them 30 minutes before line numbers are handed out, and one day after the whole process is over section B tickets are on sale on eLF...

[Bjammin 03]

Please, let's not turn this into the USCHO board. . .try and keep things civil. I know many of you are upset over what happened (and justifiably so) but please don't let people like ssd'05 get you going. . .you're better than that, don't lower yourself to his/her level.

Thanks

[melissa]

for morning entertainment check out today's sun. one of the writers shamelessly admits to cutting line while recalling his own "line" experience.

[Will]

Melissa wrote:

for morning entertainment check out today's sun. one of the writers shamelessly admits to cutting line while recalling his own "line" experience.

Link: http://www.cornelldailysun.com/articles/9073/

Indeed, I just read that article.  I'm seriously considering giving these guys (there are actually two authors to the article) the Volonnino treatment right now, if you know what I mean (as evident by my sig line).

[jeh25]

One of the guys who got revenge on Volonnino wrote:


Indeed, I just read that article.  I'm seriously considering giving these guys (there are actually two authors to the article) the Volonnino treatment right now, if you know what I mean (as evident by my sig line).

If you do, make sure to get them on the NAMBLA and Scientology mailing lists too.

[Will]

John E Hayes '98 '00 wrote:

One of the guys who got revenge on Volonnino wrote:


Indeed, I just read that article.  I'm seriously considering giving these guys (there are actually two authors to the article) the Volonnino treatment right now, if you know what I mean (as evident by my sig line).

If you do, make sure to get them on the NAMBLA and Scientology mailing lists too.

Unfortunately, that means putting the NAMBLA site into my cache.  No matter; I'll make that sacrifice for the team. :-)

[Ninian]

 If hockey is going to be the marquee sport at Cornell, then it seems time to consider ways not to put the student body through this kind of trauma every year.  It's time to expand or replace Lynah.  Let's bite the bullet.  I've heard the arguments about intimacy and atmosphere, but anyone with these kinds of doubts about what a larger rink would do to the hockey experience at Cornell should take a road trip to Ann Arbor this season and take in a game at Yost.  Same cheers, same noise - if not more! - and same enthusiasm.  If Cornell can provide state-of-the art facilities for other sports like wrestling, the university should see the handwriting on the wall on this one and do justice to this sport, the team, and its supporters.

[ugarte]

Ninian wrote:

 If hockey is going to be the marquee sport at Cornell,

If?