University of Virginia Library

An Offer

In answer to the new
basketball ticket distribution
plan, I would like to offer a
plan which I feel will alleviate
most of the problems facing us
now. We blamed the Athletic
Department's unequal
distribution of alumni and
student tickets for the shortage
of student tickets, last year.
Other students complained of
paying a student fee, part of
which goes to the Athletic
Department, even though they
didn't want to see the
basketball games. The Athletic
Department does need the
revenue from the alumni to
fund the basketball team, and
the alumni are not going to
give money to a team which
they can't go and watch.

I suggest that each student
be given an opportunity to buy
a season ticket for all the home
basketball games before the
school year begins. Students
could be notified during the
summer and a deadline set for
response. The reason for the
deadline date would be the
Athletic Department enough
time to determine the amount
of seats available for alumni
and sell them. The extra seats,
if any, would be used for date
and single game student
tickets.

That part of the student fee
going to basketball should be
removed. The money lost by
the removal of the student fee
for basketball and by the
possible loss of some alumni
seats would be made up by
charging a reasonable fee,
determined by the Athletic
Department, for the student
season ticket.

The student season tickets
would be general admission,
assuring the student
admittance to a reserved
student section, upon
presentation of the ticket and
student identification card, set
up with the predetermined
number of seats. The students
would be able to sit anywhere
in this section as they came in
for each game, giving good
seats to those fans ambitions
enough to come early.