Students will not have to miss class or camp out overnight to get tickets for this year’s Civil War game.
Acting Vice President for Student Affairs Mike Eyster announced on Friday that tickets will be available beginning at noon on Sunday, Nov. 18 at Autzen Stadium ticket distribution windows. The tickets will be distributed on a first come, first served basis. Eyster estimated that all tickets will be gone by 6 p.m.

“They could go faster than that,” Eyster said. “We gave ourselves a six-hour window. There shouldn’t be any need for people to line up early because the line will move very quickly.” Staff from the EMU Ticket Office will assist in distributing tickets from 14 windows, eliminating the need to camp out the night before or miss class on Monday, Eyster said.
“We were getting complaints from students, from parents, from faculty. Every group you can think of complained about” the way tickets were being distributed, he said. Hundreds of students have missed Monday classes to wait in line for tickets to the four home games since fall term began. Many others camped out overnight in what has become something of a ritual for University students.
“I like the fact that they changed it to Sunday, but I don’t think that’s going to change that (students are) camping out at all,” senior Derek Sleeman said. “Especially since I learned as a freshman that camping out is part of the experience of going to football games at U of O.”
Sleeman has camped out only once this year, for the game against Arizona State University, because he has classes all day Monday.
“I don’t want to miss a class, especially since it’s senior year and I want to make sure I’m doing all right. But my friends, I believe, have camped out for every game,” he said.
Eyster was in California all weekend, but he said he heard indirect feedback from his office that students were pleased they wouldn’t have to miss class to get tickets.
An electronic ticketing system is expected to be in place by next season. If it is, students would have the option of obtaining tickets online, Eyster said.
Still, some are unhappy the Civil War game comes just before finals week. Art history professor Richard Sundt said the change in ticket distribution was a minor improvement. In 2001, Sundt proposed a resolution in the University Senate calling for an end to games during dead week. The resolution passed unanimously. A similar resolution was passed by the faculty of Oregon State University, but this year the Civil War will be held the Saturday before finals.
“The senate several years ago passed a resolution recommending that we not have games on that time. Frohnmayer said never mind that, we’ll do it,” Sundt said.
“It is kind of co-opting the academics of this University. We have athletics because we have academics, not the other way around,” Sundt said.
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