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Show Block Seating Successful. Most By Phil Barlow (Editor's Note: This is the second half of an article by Mr. Barlow explaining the situation of block seating. The author is presently worried about being hanged in effigy, since printing schedules dictate that tickets for the USU game will not be available until next Monday.) How successful has block seating been? Certainly more students are attending at-tending games than ever before. The ' attendance at the WSU game, lowest of the year, was considered far above average av-erage by the ticket office. We have only to look around at the games to see far fewer non-students in student seats. And the majority of students are finding block seating more convenient. Union Service And surely having tickets available at the Union Games Desk, as a service of the Union, is a boon to the individual student who no longer has to go to the fieldhouse, although tickets are also still available there. And hopefully there is a greater realization of the very practical benefits of a strong and active student government working to benefit every member of ASUU. Lest you think we're heady, we happily hap-pily admit that 90 per cent of the increase in-crease interest is due to Mike Giddings his brand of football and a fine group of players who are representing the 'U' in an exciting manner. But, we also feci that the ease of obtaining tickets is helpful help-ful and a definite service to the student body. As to our problems. and failures, lack of adequate publicity of the new program, times, methods, etc, have been major. I suppose it is basically a problem of a new system and my lack of organization. In fairness, though, let me say that we have attempted to make so many changes to adapt the system to be totally fair, and to eliminate criticism that new problems prob-lems have arisen. These changes have caused unfortunate misunderstandings and some inconveniences to a few, such as Scott, Salazar and Massey (Chrony, 11-1-66). Also such groups as Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Pi, I. K.'s etc. had difficulty at the UNM game draw . . . some of which was their own fault, but much of which was, again, an advertizing ad-vertizing problem. To eliminate such situation at the BYU drawing, we had to call four fraternities, two professional organizations, and one religious group which had been "regular participants." The demand for the "Y" game was so great that we underestimated the need for tickets. Unfortunately it took a little time to pick up the additional tickets, as they are normally reserved seat tickets and had to be properly prepared. pre-pared. While this is ultimately my responsibility re-sponsibility it seems quite a normal one considering we blocked over twice as many tickets as we did the WSU game. As to the posted times, the only plea is lack of coordination of the program It is very regretable, and an apology is probably little reward. Must Pay More Other problems concern non-student dates, grad students who have not paid I an activity fee, etc. These r obligated to go to the fl $2 and have their ticket w-that w-that they may be cleared -gates. It should be ma that with the exception ol es, non activity fee ff' titled to take up student : ball games. They onl P of us who do, and end-system end-system of distribution. Also, there is about J of non attendence by" tickets. We can cont groups by penalizing St 90 per cent, but J . difficult to do anythi only hope that these pe tinue to keep others p All told, we've jflj problems, no doubt q am is sound, and theW to adapt 'have caused J; be looked on as part .. of a better method. 0 been inconsistencies, blot out the Pictur' for the vast majority -more students attend the exciting ball games J-Ji; Al At the end oftfe with the WJ Board, and the , Committee, J?) make sugges f is submitted to th ning), bug-proof pio |
