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Autzen continued from page 1 games in recent years. In light of having had leftover tickets in past years — Sections 5 through 9 con tain a total of 6,098 seats — the ADFC agreed last year to let the athletic department sell those ex tra tickets to the general public. Last year, preseason tickets for students were given out starting at Section 9 going toward Section 5 while tickets that had not been picked up by students four days prior to the game were sold to the public starting at Section 5 going toward Section 9. “We agreed in good faith to give [the athletic department] an op portunity to make more money,” said ADFC Student Senator Spencer Hamlin. This year, the athletic depart ment wants to switch the order and give the public first shot at Section 9 tickets to avoid past complaints the athletic depart ment frequently receives about obstructed views because stu dents tend to stand during most games. Apart from being moved out of the better section, the stu dents would also lose 349 seats because Section 5 seats fewer peo ple. “It’s a little frustrating that [the athletic department] is trying to re work the arrangements that we’ve had for so long,” said ADFC mem ber Jeff Kershner, a senior business and Spanish double-major. Each year the ADFC has a budg et funded by the student inciden tal fee to negotiate a contract for the football season, specifying the number, location and price of stu dent seats for the regular season. Preseason games are not negotiat ed in this contract, but students were able to use the same sections they have during regular season in the past, until the ADFC agreed to give up leftover tickets for sale to the general public last year. Sandy Walton, senior associate athletic director of intercollegiate athletics, said students do not pay for preseason tickets and thus have no right to any seats in any section. She said the athletic de partment needs to make more money, which it could do by sell ing the more attractive Section 9 seats to the public. “If [tickets] are free, it seems to me we should have some say in it,” Walton said. “We can sell more tickets. We need all the money that we can raise.” Walton said that most intercol legiate sports lose money and the burden of carrying the program cannot rest on the shoulders of two programs alone. “Football and men’s basketball have a hard time generating profit for everything else,” she said. Hamlin said he understands that the athletic department needs to cover rising costs, but it should not use students to pay for them. “They’re trying to make more money by taking away our best seats,” Hamlin said. “Our job is to make sure that we protect our seats and not use the students as another source of revenue.” The ADFC and athletic depart ment are now looking at a media tion process, which might start by bringing in a neutral third party and could go as far as each party presenting its case to the adminis tration, which then might have to make the final call on the issue. At this point, however, ADFC mem bers and Walton said they were not completely sure how the process would work. On Wednesday, the ADFC gained support in its fight from the Student Senate, which voted to back the ADFC’s decision not to agree to the suggested contract un less students start getting tickets in Swiss Army COMING SOON Travel Gear Luggage From the maker of the Original Swiss Army™ Knife MCKENZIE Valley River Center 2nd Level tip Escalator 541 343-2300 ONBOARD TOTES IN BALLISTIC NYLON • Logo ID plate • Patterned lining -Neoprene contour shoulder straps -Coal chute pockets & more! . The Adventure Travel Sterol I 37th Annual international International Week Monday-Friday, April 10-14 EMU, University of Oregon M: Africa Day TU: Asia/Oceania Day W: Americas Day TH: Europe/Middle East Day F: World Forum Day International Night Sunday, April 16, 2000 EMU Ball Room, University of Oregon Students/Children 6-12: $11 ($13 at the door) Faculty/General Admission: $14 ($16 at the door) (FREE admission for children under 5) Dinner Times: 5:00 pm, 5:45 pm, 6:30 pm Preshow/Exhibition in the EMU Fir Room: 5 7 pm Performance starts in the EMU Ball Room: 7 30 pm Tickets on sale at EMU Ticketing Office, ISA office (EMU 206), and the Bookstore. Section 9. While this is the first time nego tiations between the ADFC and the athletic department have come to a stalemate, disagreements have occurred earlier this season when season tickets for students were on the agenda. The ADFC and the athletic de partment had looked into the pos sibility of offering a portion of stu dent tickets for football as a season ticket package for an additional fee of about $20 that student season ticket holders would have to pay. “We thought it would be a good idea, just to shorten the lines in front of the ticket office,” Hamlin said. Walton explained that having tickets ordered before the begin ning of the season and making sure students are actually en rolled at the time of the order and by the time they pick up their tickets would add extra work. To make up for the extra work, she said, would require a minimum of 2,000 tickets in order for the tick ets to make financial sense. “It’s pretty labor intensive,” she said. The ADFC, however, was only interested in offering a few hun dred student season tickets for a number of reasons. “With the season tickets, if we offered them, a lot of people would probably pick them up even if they weren’t die-hard fans,” Hamlin said. 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