While campaigning for Carolina Athletic Association president this week, both candidates — Andrew Barksdale III and Jessie Nerkowski — have been met with their share of puzzled stares.
“I was out there every day getting signatures, talking to people, and I found that they actually didn’t even know what CAA was,” Barksdale said.
The organization, which helps operate the men’s basketball and football ticket lotteries, also hosts events including Late Night with Roy and Beat Duke Week.
Both Nerkowski, who currently serves as vice president of the association, and Barksdale, a committee member within the association, said improving awareness of the CAA would be their priority.
Nerkowski said she wants better communication with the student body, especially regarding ticketing.
Barksdale said he has been asked by students what he can do to change the randomization of ticket distributions.
“I feel like if we could figure out a way to explicitly say what we can and can’t do with ticket policy then we’ll be in a lot better shape,” he said.
Nerkowski said for the men’s basketball game against the University of Kentucky in December, the association fought tooth and nail to try and get ticketing options other than a lottery and randomization.
“Hopefully after that mess we will have some say, but a lot of it is out of our control — we supply the man power in many ways.”