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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
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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.
ADFC Student Sen. Jennifer
Greenough and Hamlin said they
hope all parties will remember
that the reason there is college
football and a stadium in the first
place is the students.
“The University is for students
and the students are a lot of the
times the ones who are the most
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