If you bought student football tickets this season, you received them this weekend via an e-mail with data file attachments. Students were instructed to print these tickets on a game-to-game basis and use them in lieu of the card-stock tickets of old. As new technologies emerge, we have no problem with the University finding newer, simpler ways to distribute tickets. In fact, this was one of the initiatives championed by the administration of Student Government President Chris Odinet. His administration had suggested football tickets be moved to Tiger Cards so students would enter the stadium in much the same way as they do for basketball games at the PMAC. We believe this would have been a good idea, if it had actually been implemented. Instead, we are required to print these tickets on letter-sized paper, making them larger and vastly more inconvenient. Furthermore, the University made another mistake by including students’ names and social security numbers on the new tickets. In this day and age, with identity theft a real problem, we find it extremely negligent of the University to identify us in this fashion. Those with malicious intentions will find it easy to target inebriated victims before and after games, and possibly, steal their identities. Then what? Will the University take any responsibility for their folly? We’ve been charged more for tickets this year than we have been in previous years. What are we getting for our money? We also noticed that the University included a larger advertisement for Co-Op Bookstore on the new tickets than had been featured in previous years. Again, the University has found a way to make more money off the football program and the student body. So let us get this straight. The ticket prices were raised, we now have to print these tickets on our own paper-and in an inconvenient size-and the University has found a way to make additional revenue off of advertising sales. All we get out of the deal is the opportunity to have our identities stolen.
Sounds to us like we’re getting screwed.
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