University of Virginia Library

Ticket Lottery

I find it hard to believe that
there has yet to be a single
comment made in objection to
the new method of distributing
tickets to Virginia's basketball
games. It is to me
incomprehensible that the
cretins in the Athletic
Department, and worse, on the
Student Council, could expect
any student to waste two
complete days a week so that
he might watch 80 minutes of
basketball, quite possibly from
a seat high in the rafters.

It is clearly discriminatory
against those who do not have
the option of cutting classes all
day just to go sit in U.Hall. An
attempt to give medical
students a break through early
distribution has met with
objections from others who
also feel compelled to put their
tuition to use, and they are
right. Why should anyone have
greater access to tickets than
anyone else?

Since Virginia is always
fashionably behind the times,
someday the notion of an
equal, unbiased lottery will
cross someone's mind. Would it
be so hard to go and sign your
name and let (God forbid) a
computer randomly pick a list
of names?

This would not only be fair,
it would be fast, and would
give the basketball fan a second
option–that of going to class.