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Show Utah-BYU Game Sold Out Students Out In Cold Now becoming even louder than the din of a classic Utah-Utah Utah-Utah State basketball game are the protests of disappointed, frustrated, and angry University students. These students, though holding bonified tickets in their possession, have been relegated to the frost and barred from the doors of the Fieldhouse because of an incredibly obsolete system of seating seat-ing and ticket allocation by the athletic department. The request re-quest at the Utah State game that spectators "move closer together" to accommodate sixty University students standing stand-ing in the cold with tickets is impressive tesimony of the gravity of this problem. During tJie past several months, the situation has become so acute that, accompanied with the continued growth of the student body, an increasing number of fee-paying students are being deprived of seeing and enjoying the athletic programs pro-grams which they collectively subsidize. On the other hand, one cannot help but notice the gaping sections of s.eats which are reserved for general admission and complimentary passes distributed by the athletic department. These sections are reserved for those persons who have not had to pay fe.es at this University each quarter. As the situation now stands, for a student to be able to obtain a decent vantage point from which to view the game, he must either join the pep band, become a member of the frosh team, obtain a complimentary pass from somebody who knows somebody in the Public Relations department, or dress in insulated underwear and stand in the long line which forms outside the Fieldhouse at three o'clock in the afternoon. after-noon. Fighting out the clock in the line only means that the student has a chance to grapple for one of the paltry 1,750 seats that have been set aside for our student body which numbers more than 13,000. Even then his ticket is no absolute guarantee of admission admis-sion because of the poor ushering which unwittingly or not admits a sure stream of "persona non grata" individuals or groups holding expired or illegal activity cards or nothing at all. Recently, an irate student initiated court proceedings against the University of Oregon because of its failure to accord him the privileges of the athletic department for which he was charged each quarter. W.e would hope that litigation over such a matter would never be necessary on this campus. We should be capable of arriving at an amicable and just solution. However, we would remind the Athletic Board and the athletic department that a solution is long overdue as will be inevitably illustrated at the Utah-BYU game this weekend. We would hope that the athletic department will always honor the student with a current activity card that, in deference de-ference to his special fee-paying status, he will be accorded seating ahead of general admission. It is well known that most universities allocate a fair block of seating at games to the student body and that this seating is placed under their responsible supervision. The student body of this university have certainly arrived at that station where they can work with the athletic department depart-ment as a partner to rectify this injustice. The meeting of the Athletic Board on Friday will have this urgent problem to resolve. It is time that the students' case be given fair hearing and receive a just solution. |