Ticket Line Procedures

[Section A]

Good to hear

[Justin Nachod]

I was just over to check out the line.

Cornell Police will be patrolling all night long behind Bartels.  Their night shift starts at 11:00 and they are going to be strict about things.  You will NOT lose your chance to buy tickets if you are asked to leave and you comply.  If you are asked to leave, and/or are asked for your Cornell ID and you don't have it you will be disqualified from buying tickets.

At 3:00 PM tomorrow, the police will disperse any lines that are present.  They would not say about how the period between 3:00 PM and 4:45 PM would be handled.

Currently, the line has moved over to behind Biotech.  The people that got there first do have an informal list with signatures.  The total number of people in line is currently 25.

[Justin Nachod]

The current list:

[calgARI \'07]

What is this list?  If I wanna be in section B, when should I get there by.  I was planning on 9 tomorrow morning.  Should I go tonight?

[DeltaOne81]

Section B holds 200-something people, so there's certainly no danger yet

[Section A]

If it's not an official line, then it doesn't really matter. Is someone really going to  say "No, you can't stand there in front of me because I signed this piece of paper last night"?

[Dave]

I sense a civil war about to erupt over that piece of paper.

[Will]

I would hope the students at large would respect the paper.  However, that paper won't prevent a select few @$$hole frat boys from cutting in line and getting better numbers when they're finally given out.

Right now, I'm just hoping me and my group of 30+ 'friends' can at least break into the middle of section D.

[Justin Nachod]

The list thing is pretty meaningless.  THey're going to disperse everyone anyway at least one, and probably several more times before tomorrow at 4:45.  People will wind up doing much better or worse than they deserve in terms of line numbers.

[Section A]

I'm sorry to sound harsh, but I have no reason and no intention to respect that piece of paper. Why should I? After all, the people who created it didn't respect the fact that we're all supposed to wait until 4:45 tomorrow. And besides, there isn't even any way to know for sure that all the people who "signed" their name on the list were actually there. It's meaningless and, as Justin pointed out, the crowd will be dispersed anyway.

Well I'm off to bed.....see you all in line :-P

[Will]

Avash, I understand your reasoning, and I personally am not going to stop you from trying to take an earlier place in line, but there are a few things you should probably consider:

1) When was the last time that people didn't attempt to line up before the pre-announced time?  Not counting the lottery year(s? how many years was the lottery in existence? I was only around for the last lottery year), I'm fairly sure that there have always been people in the line before the line was meant to begin, at least in recent history.

2) I would think that a fair chunk of those 25 people, if not all of them, will be hanging around (or trying to hang around) Bartels and/or Biotech all day today, so if you're going to try to cut them, you're going to have to deal with them yourself.  If there is a conflict like this and it resorts to violence, are CUPD and Athletics going to really sort things out, or are they just going to ban the whole lot of you from getting tickets?

3) See my prior post about those select few @$$hole frat boys.

Being #26 in line isn't so bad, since it still pretty much guarantees a seat or two in section B if you want it.  Unless there's an overwhelming amount of people that don't collectively respect the list (probable, in which case, it's every man for himself--good luck!), it might serve you better to give the list some respect, especially since you're going to be sharing section B with them until February/March.  Isn't it better to get along with your fellow faithful?

Again, I repeat, I have nothing personally to gain from respecting or disrespecting the list.  I just want to see things go smoothly and keep from turning ugly.

[Sgt.12]

As was said before CUPD will disperse any crowd that forms prior to the official start of the published procedure.  So far the people that have been removed from the "unofficial" lines have been cooperative.  We will continue this effort all day long and hope that level of cooperation remains the same.  Our goal is to make the process as fair as it can be given the process that has been laid out.  We support the Lyah Faithful and we hope that everything works out for the majority.

I had said that I would be there today - however my schedule has changed and I will not be able to attend.  However I have faith that the officer(s) that will be there will maintain the same level of civility and cooperation.

[Jordan 04]

The idea of this "unofficial list" is somewhat laughable.

The policy is quite clear -- no lining up before 4:45 PM.  So someone who is there at 4:45 should have the same chance as being first in line as anyone who was there last night.  

I won't be able to be there this year, but it should be interesting to see what happens.  In reality, they should just let people lineup whenever they please.  Just announce a time for handing out line numbers, and let folks line up as they please.  Preventing people from lining up until a set time seems like a good recipe for another mad dash/stampede type scene.


Oh...and one last thing.  If we're respecting unofficial lists, then I was there last Friday and wrote my name down on a piece of paper.  So I'm #1  

:-P

[gtsully]

I agree with Jim on this whole mess - I can't see how self-policing the line would be that difficult.  Thankfully, the only time I had to wait in line when I was on The Hill was for Harvard playoff tickets my senior year, but that seemed to work out fine.  Of course, we did start that line and we, as season ticket holders, had tickets already (we just wanted to get enough seats to put our pledges in section O with the letters "W-E-S-U-C-K" painted on them, but that's another story ::nut:: ), so we were dealing with a much smaller crowd, but I can't remember any huge problems.

Maybe I'm getting naive at my old age  ::help:: , but I think it's being made more complicated than necessary.

[Section A]

Upon reflection, all good points (and I'm not a frat boy, I should also note) :-) . Don't get me wrong, I want this afternoon to go smoothly too; hopefully it will.

Quick sidenote, last year I think I was #150 or something like that, and when I chose seats on Sunday morning, there were still seats left in the two back rows of Section B. I went with the sixth row of A on the aisle, but my point is that section B is still available for line numbers well after #25.

Late for class......