By Brad J. Pease
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 14, 1997

Snubbed again for basketball tickets

Editor:

The beginning of fall of each of my five years here at U of A means only one thing to me; it is time to submit my unlucky student ID number to the Mckale canter ticket office... and lose.

Each year I have walked through the hallowed halls of Mckale center and looked with extreme anticipation for my name amongst the blessed. Each year I have left yelling obscenities at John Button Salmon as he grinned at me as I left the area. "Snubbed" again... I haven't even made the alternate list either. Being a fanatical basketball fan, this deeply disturbs me.

How is it that a student at his own university can't even get tickets one of five years, while some alumni in his red sweater gets one to sit on his hands throughout the entire game. Money runs this college and often times it is the poor student who is left out. I have often times found myself at Mckale center buying high priced scalped tickets, that I cannot afford, just to watch my beloved basketball team.

Since I know for a fact that Alumni will always get more tickets than students the lottery system must change. Why not give seniors a higher percentage chance to win the lottery or have last year's winners ineligible to win the following year. This might stop those students who sell their tickets for profit from killing the system.

To those students who won this year, I offer the following challenges:

1. They keep their tickets for the enjoyment of the game and not for profit.

2. Let not a single seat for any game go unused.

3. Get the Alumni off their seats and onto their feet to help cheer the cats to victory.

As for me, I will be camped out over-night with all of the other unlucky fans to get tickets to the games not included in the lottery package. Wish me luck- I definitely need it.

Brad J. Pease
Architecture senior