Ticket Line

[froboymitch]

Any ideas or rumblings about when and where the line will formally start this year?

[gophergrl05]

it has begun... driving home from my class tonight i saw a line formed outside of barton with a cop..... i'm assuming it's the hockey line due to several "did my time in the line" t-shirts........ good luck to everyone!

[Jacob '06]

Most of the people left....they were just anticipating it being tonight. I bet it will be wednesday night.

[A-19]

wow, so much for confidentiality
how many showed up? i guess that's a gauge on how many are going to be there immediately following the announcement.
this time, i happen to believe athletics will disperse people until the announcement is made. and i think it should be easier, since few people should be on hand for the absolute beginning

[Liz \'05]

The line extended from Barton's east entrance to past the ILR parking lot - I'd estimate a little under 200 people showed up.  Athletics didn't disperse people - this time, at least - the cops told us all that it wouldn't be happening tonight and that we could stay if we were orderly and wanted to.  Barton was locked up at 11, so anyone who's planning to stay the night anyway will be outside.

[A-19]

that's alot more than i would have expected for so early in the juncture. not that it doesn't pay to be early (it does), and not that i wouldn't have gone so early if i hadn't already graduated (i would have). but that many people will really cause a problem if allowed to gather unofficially, especially if cornell waits until later this week.

wow, can i say how happy i am that i am only experiencing this vicariously, after the d-day invasions that were the last 4 years of getting tickets

mike

[Jacob '06]

if they were smart they could find a way to avoid that.....no further comment

[calgARI '07]

I am not going to elaborate, but I am on it.  HOPEFULLY, all this controversy will be avoided.

[A-19]

ari,

after my experience with you in the thick of it all last year, i am very curious to hear your take on how things are progressing back in ithaca this year. the way i see it, cornell is not that stupid so as to let the whole thing they are attempting to avoid happen again. i would be pretty confident the cops' story will change by morning, and a fairer result will ensue. people out there now are probably just playing it safe. for some reason, despite all past experience to the contrary, i believe this may be the year things go off well.

-mike '04

[calgARI '07]

The big issue is that the ROTC people and possibly some of the Daily Sun people leaked when the line was beginning or at least the location prior to when the announcement of all this was going to be made.  As a result, roughly 300 people gathered between 9-10:30 outside of Barton on a line.  They then passed around a sheet putting people's names down.  Suppossedly, the announcement of officially starting the line was going to be made tonight and then it wasn't because Nighman refuses to allow a preline like what happened last year.  So now the line will begin at a later time and hopefully a different location.  IF the line procedure is executed as it is suppossed to be (and there is no leaks), things will be fine.  Someone dropped the ball in telling the ROTC people.  That is essentially what went wrong toinght.  
I am of course defending this procedure because I was one of the guys that came up with this procedure.  But I am trying to stay in contact with Gene Nighman though this to make sure he goes about every step of this in a fair fashion.  At this point, I'd say it's 50-50 whether things go well or not.  Not great odds, but definitely better than last year's.

[A-19]

ari,

thanks for the update. i can clearly see why the office refuses to flex to the student demands this time. as i pointed out in a post much earlier, leaks could pose a tremendous problem. i have confidence in your ability to ensure things work out well. just don't sleep through the alarm this year once you have your number! keep us posted from i-town

ahhhhh, and an unofficial list- takes me back

-mike

[Jacob '06]

Why exactly do they tell the daily sun. Presumably the line is starting at night time so a release in the paper wouldn't really help. Although they did say they would release it in print in the original press release.

[A-19]

they tell the sun so presumably some of the sports staff can flagrantly cut the line again. i speak from last year's experience only, as an individual in the group directly in front of these guys. i certainly do not condemn all sun staff, or even all sun sports staff. see:
http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/09/16/108143308940755c0127e82?in_archive=1 for reference
and http://elf.elynah.com/read.php?1,25077,25178#msg-25178 for discussion

[cornelldavy]

From http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/09/28/4158f218142b6 :

[Q]"We didn't want a rush," said Gene Nighman '81, director of athletic tickets and events. "We didn't want to have a 'pre-line.' I just didn't want to have to deal with that, so we're going to do something different. I'll figure it out."[/Q]

Nice to see he's got a plan already in place. I still say that they should give this method a try: http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/04/01/108143307040755bee5d85b?in_archive=1 .

[DeltaOne81]

What the HELL is wrong with people?!?

I'm beginning to doubt that I can blame that administration anymore, this is just crazy. 200+ people show up on a f'in MONDAY to wait all damn week. Get a fuckin' life, really. The first year of the line (that I can remember, they all kinda mix together) I showed up at 7 pm Friday and got a number in the 500s (and only because of massive cutting). Someone showed up at 2 am Friday after celebrating their 21st birthday at the bars and got in the 700s, getting a ticket at the top of F.

If 200+ people are going to have as little of a life as to wait all damn week, well, geez. I'm one of the biggest hockey fans around, but you're at fuckin' Cornell with prelim! There should be a few hardcore fans Wednesday night (that'd be 3 nights of camping out), maybe a couple dozen by Thursday, and Friday afternoon people should start rolling in.

I love hockey as much as anyone, but that's ridiculous. Get a life and be reasonable. Good people shouldn't be denied all tickets just because they have a sense of responsibility. Last year the administration messed up. This year they did it fine, and if the students screw it up for themselves, well then they have no one else to blame.

Keep in mind this is said from the perspective of someone with very little personal stake in the situation, considering I've graduated. The process seems to have turned from the students with the most enthusiasm to those with the least responsibility.