TO THE EDITOR:
John Russell’s guest editorial, “No ticket? There are still ways to attend,” (Nov. 19) regarding the ticket policy did not properly address its main problems, nor offer any suitable solutions for how to solve it.
While Russell’s editorial focuses primarily on how to obtain a ticket, most students would agree that getting a ticket is not the main issue. The real problem is that it has become unnecessarily but increasingly difficult to attend games with friends.
It creates the issue of having to frantically contact as many people as possible in order to find anyone that happened to get the same phase. If that effort fails, then the student must sacrifice his or her higher phase.
I understand that the CAA “felt bad” about handing out so many rejection letters to the lottery, but it was still very easy to obtain tickets even without winning them through the lottery.
Facebook groups of ticket trading have been formed, and one can easily find someone giving away tickets online. Of course, there’s always the high probability that your friend got a ticket and would love to take you along. I hope the CAA listens to the student body and brings back the old policy.
Heather Giuffre
Junior
Peace, War, and Defense, Asian Studies
