Ticket sales could be easier
It’s Monday at 10:30 a.m., and I just witnessed an amazing and very unnecessary sight. About 500 students were in a very long line in the EMU, waiting to buy tickets to the football game.
Most of the students have things that are much more important to do. Some of them will be in line for more than two hours.
Why not do the following? If there are 400 tickets available, print up to 400 numbered slips that could be rapidly handed out to students as they enter the line. There would be signs posted telling students what time during the next two days they should show up to buy their tickets. For example, the sign might say “For slips 250-280, you may buy tickets after 10 a.m. Tuesday.”
In this way, students would waste less time standing in line. Also, life would be less hectic for those selling the tickets.
Daniel Weiner
Eugene
