TO THE EDITOR:
One of the things I was most excited about when I came to UNC was basketball. When the season started, imagine my surprise when I looked around at the Dean Dome and saw how the majority of the seats were reserved for alumni who don’t stand and cheer or chant the fight songs.
When UNC says that they have a problem filling seats, they immediately look at students as a liability. Their first thought is not, “How can we encourage more students to attend these games?” but rather, “How can we ensure a profit on the seats in question?” They want to make more tickets available to alumni and are trying to reduce the student ticket count.
Instead of students, they’d rather the tickets go to middle-aged businessmen and women who’ll sit there casually as we face Duke. It’s the atmosphere created by students, not alumni, that gives our team the best advantage. To think that UNC, the premiere college basketball program in the nation, would rather make a profit than provide students with tickets is a thought that runs counter to the very foundation of our school.
Michael Hardison
Freshman
PWAD
