2008 Woodie Awards
Students, Ryan Center should take responsibility for ticket line disaster
Issue date: 12/7/07 Section: Editorial/Opinion
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12/07/07 - To the Cigar, I was reading the Cigar today and I found two fantastic letters from Ken Baum and Nichole Bossi about the scene outside of the Ryan Center on Tuesday. While I can understand some of their concern for their safety, I found a few humorous and sad comparisons and statements they made.
First off, to compare this incident to The Who or to the Station fire is ludicrous and disturbing. No one held a gun to your head and told you to go to this game or partake in the charge you should have known was going to happen. The people who perished in those incidents were fighting for their lives trying to get away from a fire.
While I agree that there should have been more security and more order, the staff was right, everyone's an adult but at the same time you guys really didn't see this coming? There's a thousand people in a line, 4 doors and its freezing out...I'm not a math major but I already added that up in my head. To the person who had an apparent panic attack: There's not too many people in your living room where you could have watched the game conveniently broadcast on Cox 3. Why would you go into a building filled with a mass amount of people if you knew it would cause you a problem?
As to the statements of first-come, first- serve ticketing being unfair. You're right. They should have taken attendance at all of the previous home games and seen who is a real fan and given them first dibs on the tickets. If you had been paying attention all week and if you had really cared, you would have seen all the announcements and heard that tickets weren't going to be sold at a normal time.
The reason this happened was because you would have had the same exact situation at 10 p.m. and people would have been skipping classes and messing this up even worse. And by the way, the people who really, really wanted these tickets were lined up at 2:30 p.m.
I read a line in the editorial that said the students were there when this team loses and when it wins.
First off, to compare this incident to The Who or to the Station fire is ludicrous and disturbing. No one held a gun to your head and told you to go to this game or partake in the charge you should have known was going to happen. The people who perished in those incidents were fighting for their lives trying to get away from a fire.
While I agree that there should have been more security and more order, the staff was right, everyone's an adult but at the same time you guys really didn't see this coming? There's a thousand people in a line, 4 doors and its freezing out...I'm not a math major but I already added that up in my head. To the person who had an apparent panic attack: There's not too many people in your living room where you could have watched the game conveniently broadcast on Cox 3. Why would you go into a building filled with a mass amount of people if you knew it would cause you a problem?
As to the statements of first-come, first- serve ticketing being unfair. You're right. They should have taken attendance at all of the previous home games and seen who is a real fan and given them first dibs on the tickets. If you had been paying attention all week and if you had really cared, you would have seen all the announcements and heard that tickets weren't going to be sold at a normal time.
The reason this happened was because you would have had the same exact situation at 10 p.m. and people would have been skipping classes and messing this up even worse. And by the way, the people who really, really wanted these tickets were lined up at 2:30 p.m.
I read a line in the editorial that said the students were there when this team loses and when it wins.