Sara Menard is now a freshman at the University. She said she attends every LSU home football game with regular season tickets and said the student section is never full.Like a lot of incoming students, Menard is trying to purchase her student tickets in a manner that is not required of returning students.  LSU instituted the ticket lottery this season to allow more incoming students the opportunity to attend an LSU home game. “We used to do a first-come, first-serve,” said Brian Broussard, LSU ticket manager. “It came down to who has the fastest computer, who had the easiest access to computers. It just wasn’t really fair because there still weren’t enough tickets around.”Some incoming students, however, do not agree with Broussard and feel the new ticket policy is unfair.Students were able to enter their names into a lottery by Friday at 5 p.m. to win one of two packages containing tickets to four of the Tigers’ home games.About 2,000 of the 3,600 students who applied will receive either the purple package, with tickets to the Georgia, Troy, Tulane and Ole Miss games or the gold package, with tickets to the Alabama, Mississippi State, Appalachian State and North Texas games.The packages are $48 each, and it costs $1 to enter the lottery.The ticket office will notify students via e-mail no later than today whether they will receive tickets.Some freshmen are not thrilled with the prospect of getting to go to only four games.”I would have rathered it would be one complete season ticket,” said Aaron Spooner, landscape architecture freshman.  Students are also upset by the content of the packages. “You have to choose between maybe some of your favorite teams — then homecoming along with the pajama game,” said Grace Weber, biology freshman.Broussard said about 2,000 tickets are available to incoming students, and the amount of time it takes for them to sell out varies. “A couple years ago we had it on sale for a few days, and it took us a few days to get to that number,” Broussard said. “Last year, we had the same exact number, and it took us about an hour.”Weber said she understands a limited number of tickets exists but feels more should be available to students.”It’s our school,” she said.Angela Palmer, architecture freshman, said freshmen should have one game where they get initiated into LSU football.”It will give us a shot to see what it is all about rather than wait for a lottery,” Palmer said.  Some students said the previous system was actually more fair than the new lottery method.”That makes me mad,” Weber said. “It should be first-come, first-served because even if you apply before somebody else they might end up with tickets.”Not all incoming freshmen feel the policy is unfair. “I thought it was a good idea,” said Matthew Schwing, finance freshman.Stacey Maurin, elementary education junior, said she would have been grateful for the lottery when she was a freshman.”I surely wouldn’t have had to wait anxiously by my computer for over an hour and try to get tickets,” Maurin said. “I wouldn’t want to be anywhere on Saturday night other than Death Valley.”—-Contact Amos Morale at [email protected]