Ticket Procedure Released

[Will]

Well, it looks like I'm screwed out of getting a seat in the student section this year, unless I get some help.  So, who wants to help me out here?  C'mon current students, you know you want me there. :-)

[Ben Rocky '04]

Now you're really talking!

[ajec1]

Skip the line...join the band!

[Scersk '97]

Yeah, free tickets and free trips:  Pep Band is cool.

Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to be in marching band to join Pep Band.  Just show up to practices and go to a bunch of other sporting events that, in all honesty, aren't that bad.  Macrophiliacs find volleyball entertaining*.  For some unknown reason**, "sprint" or, as we used to call it, "lightweight" football can be rather fun to watch.  Though I never remember going to a game, from what I've read***, field hockey would certainly be a hoot.

If the current Pep Band webpage weren't such a disaster, I'd refer people to it.  (Hint, hint.)

So, show up and give the lazy, non-psycho "marching band is more important to me than pep band" types a run for their priority points.

* [ ::banana:: ]
** [ ::drunk:: ]
*** http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/4328f1ac7c5d3

[that loud guy with the hair]

- 1 ticket per student.
- announcement some night, between 9-11:30 to line up
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::wtf:: ::cuss::  ::flipd::

(ok, time for some actual words)
This isn't "waiting in line" anymore; it's playing a f*cking game.  I seem to be cursed with this optimism that athletics will try to reward its most supportive fans; instead they take a sh*t in our f*cking mouths.  

We're serious about hockey.  How about giving us a way that we can seriously be sure that we'll get some tickets.  Ugh!  ::bang::  Morons!

- that loud guy with the hair ::rock::

P.S.  Yes, I realize that I should have probably slept before posting about this, but dammit I'm mad now!

P.P.S.  I haven't posted for awhile. So hi everyone.

P^3 S.  Ugh!  ::bang::  Morons!

[aznxjz]

question:

does anyone know what section/rows the grad tickets are in?  I am an undergrad turned grad and am considering grad tickets.  Also, can grad students get undergrad tickets? (i want to be in B, of course)

[Beeeej]

[Q]Townie Wrote:
 [Q2]Beeeej Wrote:
 So students will be able to pick up their line numbers - determining in what order they'll get to choose their seats - quickly and go home...
...yet once they've paid for their tickets, and everyone knows exactly in what order people will get to choose their pre-paid seats, then they're required to spend 24 hours in line?![/Q]
I'm not getting your point(s).  This is basically what's happened for years, except they're handing out numbers one night and postponing the wait until Friday night (although I guess they could hand out line numbers on Friday night).  This should minimize the impact on schoolwork, prelims (if any), etc..; no mid-week waiting like last year.[/q]

(Edit: My network problems ate the original version of this post while I tried to edit it for one freakin' typo shortly after Al's response... I'll try to recreate it.  Bleah.)

My point is that supposedly Schafer wants the rink filled with the students who want it the most. The only reasonable measure of desire, IMHO, is how long one is willing to wait in line in order to get the best position on line.  This system's measure is how many traffic laws you're willing to break to get there in two minutes instead of four; it's short-sighted and potentially dangerous.  Plus, just as Sun staffers and their friends were often among the first few dozen on line back when the Sun had announcement responsibilities, I wouldn't be surprised to see VBR staffers and their friends take the first few lines numbers this year.

Staying overnight was never an end in itself; it was simply what you had to do if you wanted a good place on line.  Is there an element of "I did it, you should have to, too" to my opinion?  Perhaps, but at least when I slept overnight on line and got my seats of choice, I knew it was because I'd made a conscious decision to sacrifice a day or two in order to get the best position on line, not because I'd driven faster than the next guy or had a friend with questionable ethics.  Requiring students to stay overnight in the Ramin Room (or wherever) is a waste of Cornell's resources, and ultimately pointless since everyone will have received their line numbers days in advance.  You really want Cornell hockey fans to "bond"?  Make 'em line up in order of their desire to get tickets.

Lastly, I don't think the one-ticket-per-person policy is a good idea.  It may eliminate a few facetimers (and alumni hangers-on), but mark my words, there will be a bunch of students who should get tickets but who won't, through absolutely no fault of their own, for valid, unavoidable reasons.

I don't know that there is a near-perfect way to distribute season tickets without someone thinking it's a bad way to do it.  But this ain't it.

Beeeej

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]Beeeej Wrote:
My point is that supposedly Schafer wants the rink filled with the students who want it the most.  The only reasonable measure of desire, IMHO, is how long one is willing to wait in line in order to get the best position on line.[/q]
This makes so much sense and is so obvious that it's not surprising Athletics is unable to comprehend it.

[Jordan 04]

[Q]ajec1 Wrote:

 Skip the line...join the band![/q]

....you just won't be able to say "suck" anymore.

[Lauren '06]

[Q]Scersk '97 Wrote:

 Yeah, free tickets and free trips:  Pep Band is cool.

Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to be in marching band to join Pep Band.[/q]
True.  I got more than a dozen emails from non-MB folks asking to join the pep band, many of whom showed up to our first rehearsal.  Is more than a dozen equal to the 200-person power of the marching band, well no, but in my experience people outside the 51 ticket minimum usually drop out after the season starts anyway.

[q]Just show up to practices and go to a bunch of other sporting events that, in all honesty, aren't that bad.  Macrophiliacs find volleyball entertaining*.  For some unknown reason**, "sprint" or, as we used to call it, "lightweight" football can be rather fun to watch.  Though I never remember going to a game, from what I've read***, field hockey would certainly be a hoot.

If the current Pep Band webpage weren't such a disaster, I'd refer people to it.  (Hint, hint.)[/q]
And whose fault is the current Pep Band page?  Perhaps the people who created it in its hideous form on AOL Hometown in 1996?  Rest assured I am working on it, I've got the CSS all laid out and everything, it's just that we only got internet hooked up at our house yesterday.  Now the FTPing can commence!

Excuses, excuses.

I have to admit I really resent the "join pepband because you get free hockey tickets" mentality.  I would prefer that people, you know, be able to actually play instruments. :-P

[Pace]

This is absolutely nuts! Will it take someone dying to make the University see how stupid this procedure is?

Spending just one night once you already have an almost specific seat prepaid is pretty stupid but whatever, I can do that.

What I just don't understand is why Athletics doesn't see that this rush for the line numbers will get someone killed. Seriously, any Sun staff here? Please run a warning this week that as of Sat 24th the roads around campus will be death traps between 9pm and 11:30pm every night!

The University doesn't want to risk a lawsuit if they let us line up whenever? Okay. Well how's this headline gonna look, "Two Cornellians run over by five other Cornellians speeding to get their line numbers".


Stupid, just so stupid....

[Beeeej]

[Q]Section A Banshee Wrote:I have to admit I really resent the "join pepband because you get free hockey tickets" mentality.  I would prefer that people, you know, be able to actually play instruments.[/q]

You mean actually play pep band instruments?  Never stopped me.   ::nut::

Beeeej

[DeltaOne81]

[Q]The University doesn't want to risk a lawsuit if they let us line up whenever? Okay. Well how's this headline gonna look, "Two Cornellians run over by five other Cornellians speeding to get their line numbers".[/Q]

I think they don't want to risk your grades by letting you line up whenever. Grades before life is probably the credo of about a third of the campus and most of the governance anyway.

Well, that's a bit harsh, at least towards the governance. I would guess that they were in such a concern not to allow you to miss a few classes that they didn't even bother to think about your safety.

[redhair34]

[Q]Pace Wrote:


What I just don't understand is why Athletics doesn't see that this rush for the line numbers will get someone killed. Seriously, any Sun staff here? Please run a warning this week that as of Sat 24th the roads around campus will be death traps between 9pm and 11:30pm every night!

[/q]

I agree with this point.  Like someone else already said, last year was dangerous.  On the way back from picking up my line number I almost got ran over.  People were abandoning cars left and right.  This year's 1 ticket policy just multiplies the problem.  Instead of 700 (ish) students wreaking havoc on campus it will be more like 1400.  I won't be at all surprised if someone is seriously injured.

[KeithK]

[q]I agree with this point. Like someone else already said, last year was dangerous. On the way back from picking up my line number I almost got ran over. People were abandoning cars left and right. This year's 1 ticket policy just multiplies the problem. Instead of 700 (ish) students wreaking havoc on campus it will be more like 1400. I won't be at all surprised if someone is seriously injured.[/q]Yes, but if someone is injured by a reckless student driver the blame (read liability) is more clearly directed at the driver and not the school.  After all, Cornell can't be responsible for how the students drive, can it?