Ticket scalpers
circumvent rules
prohibiting resale
Ticket scalping is legal
in the state of Oregon
but the University prohibits
it on the school's property
By Ali Shaughnessy
Senior News Reporter
Football tickets.
With the approach of the Civil
War football game on Saturday,
those two words are worth as much
as $500 a pair.
However, the place to get these
revered tickets is not through the Uni
versity ticket office, but rather, through
classified advertisements, eBay and
people standing on the comer.
Ticket scalping is legal in Oregon,
aunougn tne University
prohibits scalpers from
standing on Uni
versity property
while trying to sell
tickets, Assistant Ath
letics Director Dave
Williford said.
We will certainly not 1
allow (ticket scalping) to '
happen on Athletic De
partment or University
property, he said, adding
that when a scalper is spotted, he or
she is asked to leave the premises im
mediately.
That doesn't stop the determined,
however.
University junior Sonja Greene
crosses the Autzen footbridge for al
most every football game, and said
she notices more and more scalpers
each time.
"It's frustrating, being hustled,
when all 1 want to do is get to the
game, "she said.
Although Oregon does not have a
law restricting ticket scalping, several
states do.
Illinois enacted the Ticket Scalping
Act, which states it is unlawful for any
person to sell, barter or exchange ad
mission tickets at any other place than
in a box office or on the premises of
the event.
California also prohibits ticket
scalping at events under California Pe
nal Code Section 346, which states:
"Any person who ... sells a ticket of
admission to (an) entertainment
event, which was obtained for the
purpose of resale, at any price which
is in excess of the prices that is print
ed or endorsed upon the ticket, while
on the grounds of or in the stadium,
arena, theatre, or other place where an
event for which admission tickets are
sold ... is guilty of a misdemeanor. *
Jan Bohman, community relations
manager for the city of Eugene, said
ticket scalping has never appeared to
be a significant problem in Eugene.
Bohman added that she was not
aware of the Eugene City Council ever
raising the issue.
Greene said ticket scalping is an issue
that needs to be brought to the attention
of everyone, City Council included.
"It's ridiculous that people are mak
ing hundreds of dollars in profits
from students," she said. Greene
added that she thought the
worst onense was wnen
ticket scalpers tried to
sell student tickets.
Michael, a ticket
scalper who didn't want
his last name printed,
has been selling tickets
for the past five years. It
started when he couldn't
go to a basketball game,
and he ended up selling
his ticket for a $ 15 profit.
If students want to get tickets, they
need to get up early and stand in line,"
Michael said. "If I beat them to it then
it's well within my rights to do as I
chose with the ticket."
Williford said a big concern with
buying a ticket from a scalper is the
possibility of the ticket being fake.
Oregon State University is looking
to create electronic student tickets
within the next two years, Oregon
State's Director of Ticket Operations
Matt Arend said.
The ticket would be electronically
transferred to a student's identifica
tion card, which the student would
then use to get into the game. Arend
said the process, which is already be
ing used at Stanford and Ohio State
University, will help eliminate the
scalping of student tickets.
Both Russ Blunck, sports informa
tion director at Western Oregon Uni
versity, and Rich Rosenthal, sports in
formation director at Southern
Oregon University, said ticket scalping
is not a problem at their universities.
Contact the crime/ health/safety reporter
at alishaughnessy@dailyemerald.com.
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