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Tickets 2: away
Considering the sorry state of ticket
procedures within Memorial Stadium, one
could pretty well guess what those procedures
would be like for away games. And you
wouldn't be far from wrong.
If anything, the situation in distribution of
away game tickets is more offensive than
distribution of home tickets. It's just a little
less noticeable.
Currently, UNL students receive tickets for
only one off-campus game the annual
migration game at Missouri or Colorado for
which students are allotted about 25 percent
of the tickets.
This arrangement is the result of an
agreement between the ticket office and
ASUN Senate in 1965. This year the senate
and its executives attempted to change the
situation by requesting the ticket office to
increase the number of migration tickets
allotted to students to 50 per cent of the
total.
It didn't work however, as Ticket Office
Manager Jim Pittenger fell back on the earlier
agreement, claiming the tickets had all ready
been sold to Big Red boosters outstate.
According to Pittenger, the tickets are not
made available to students because there is no
great demand for them. "How many students
go to UCLA or Army?" Pittenger said.
"Students usually want to go to Missouri or
Colorado."
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It all seems a matter of priorities. Why
couldn't the Ticket Office grant the
admittedly few student ticket requests before
the public. Why is the general public accorded
the same chance for viewing the games as
students? "The public is paying for the
football team, not the students," Pittenger
claims. Case closed.
The results of this philosophy are fairly
obvious. When the Big Red attends an away
game, the crowd isn't students, but
red-garbed, middle-aged matrons and their
Harry Husker hubbies. Which means the
traditional spark and vitality of the younger
crowds are gone. And what is supposed to be
the Big Red pep section become the Big Red
poop section.
But if students- aren't given away-game
tickets, where do the tickets go? If home
game procedures are any indication, you can
bet the fat cats get their share and more.
Along those lines, speculation on rumors
that Regent Robert Prokop received
approximately 75 tickets to this year's
Colorado migration game seem to be more
than rumors. Pittenger said Wednesday that
Prokop received the tickets "because he asked
for them." The reason they were forked over
so readily? "He's a regent and my boss,"
Pittenger explained.
Students, you will remember received
approximately 1,000 tickets to that game,
rationed out by a lottery-28 per cent of the
total number of tickets to the game. Prokop's
reported 75 tickets would represent as many
tickets as were allotted to 7.5 percent of the
student body-approximately 1,600 students.
Somehow, this seems a bit unjust.
Which is why ASUN Senate and a large
number of others have been attempting tp
secure from the administration some
affirmative action and suggested reforms in
the handling of ticket sales. Thus far, no
action has come from the administration.
And that action is long overdue.
The Ticket Office has been running the
University for far too long. It's time to turn
the tables.
Jim Gray
Radical homecoming the revolution burns out
Hiram Skrogg University held its
traditional 75th annual Homecoming
Day last week. Among the nostalgic
old grads revisiting the scenes of their
youth was Abbie (Che) Hayden, Class
of '70.
Che had been somewhat out of
touch these past two years, having
matriculated directly into solitary on
charges of attempting to blow up a
lavatory in the Washington Monument
and thus topple the government.
The very first student he ran into
was young Irwin Wasp, Class of '76.
"Off the pigs!" cried Che, raising a
clenched fist in comradely fashion.
"Pigi?" laid Irwin, peering up into
the spreading branches of the elms
overhead.
"Pigs, fuzz, you know, cops." Che
said. "Let's go heave a brick at a cop."
"You mean at old Mr. Twistle, the
campus guard?" Irwin said in surprise.
"Whatever for?"
"To force the dean to negotiate our
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non-negotiaoie demands, or course
said Che. "Haven't you ever gone
trashing?",
"Oh, yes," Irwin said proudly. "I
was freshman chairman of the Autumn
Litter Drive. It was a big success."
"Hell's bells I Isn't there a radical
left on this campus?"
"Oh, there's lots," Irwin said
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helpfully. "Why, three guys in my frat
alone voted for McGovern."
Che sank on a bench and ruefully
reviewed the well-groomed students
passing to and fro, books under their
arms. "What's happened to you young
people?" he asked with a sigh, "Why
aren't you hitting the streets to
protest?"
"I'd really like to; it sounds
exciting," Irwin said enthusiastically.
"Protest what?"
"The war, of course. What else?"
Che leaped to his feet. "Stop the
bombing! Bring our boys home!
Vietnam for the Vietnamese!"
"But Nixon's negotiating with
Hanoi to do just that. Under the terms
of the tentative agreement ..."
"Don't say another word," Che
said. "We'll protest the draft instead.
What right have these senile old men
who run the Establishment to pick a
war and theW send us young men out
to fight it?"
"But ..."
"It's involuntary servitude?" Che
cried. "Let's go smash the draft
board's windows again!"
"I'm afraid they shut it down for
lack of business," Irwin said
apolorjntically. "We're supposed to
havo an all-volunteor Army by next
summer,"
"Then we'll start by tying up the
dean and demanding a black studies
program!"
"But we've got one," said Irwin,
'It just shows you," Che said,
sinking back on the bench, "how
untrustworthy this rotten
Establishment is."
"Untrustworthy?" Irwin asked.
"How do you figure that?"
"If these past two yean have
proved anything," Che said, "they've
proved there's nothing this lousy
Establishment wouldn't do to stamp
out the glorious spark of revolution in
our nation's youth."
"But what have they done?"
"They've done," Che said, shaking
his head in defeat, "everything we told
them to."
Copyrlaht Chronicle Publishing Co., 1 972
daily nebraskan
friday, november 17, 1972
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