New ticket system should penalize fans who don't go

TO THE EDITOR:

One of the most important jobs of the Carolina Athletic Association is to find ways to fill the student section at basketball games. It is truly alarming that tickets to one of the most successful programs in the country go unused at virtually every game.

A penalty for unused tickets requires even ""casual fans"" to think twice before signing up for every lottery" regardless of if they can attend. And if a student receives a ticket and can't use it sending it back takes a mouse click.

Is it really so much to ask that the people who want to see the games get to go? There are empty seats at the Smith Center because signing up for tickets is effortless and the penalty for not using them doesn't exist.

A ticket penalty penalizes for one month" the ""casual fan"" who can't take the time to send one e-mail so someone else can go to the game. Is that really so unfair?



Claire Atwell

Director of ticketing and database operations"

Carolina Fever