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4 Tha Tcr Thursday, Jinusry 3, 1S7S Sparry a 3 OPSIDERS i I lib 3 si 41 y-y US if 6 ilO Sin 1- yH IL (LI -1" by Kevin B3rrir Staff Vriier HIS HERS Available now A few people play cards, while nearby a nearly-cold pizza is being devoured by a trio I who waited an hour to get it. AH around I people are trying to sleep, but few succeed as the cold and damp weather does its best to make everyone uncomfortable. i On this particular Friday night, January 7 A i Playing WAITING Sleeping buying a student ticket on the rare occasions when students don't pick up all their tickets. By far the easiest way to get a ticket is to be important enough to receive a complimentary pass. There are about 500 of these tickets for most games, 50 or more of which go to the press (but are not seats in the normal seating area).

According to Jean Keller, UNC Athletic Association ticket manager, 50 bleacher seats go to the visiting school, 30 tickets go to Dean Smith's office, and the rest either go to basketball players families or are given as complimentary tickets by the athletic department. Assistant Athletic Director Bill Cobey said the athletic department gives the tickets to high-ranking administrative officials and the like. "Being a state-funded school," he said, "we have to be able to give tickets to these people." As an example, Cobey said, North Carolina Governor Jim Holshouser receives four tickets to each game. The next largest block of tickets go to UNC faculty and staff. Of the 6,617 permanent seats in Carmichael, the faculty and staff are allotted 2,150, according to Cobey.

Faculty and staff members must apply for tickets. Keller said that if the staff member is married, then he or she may apply for two tickets, otherwise the maximum is a single ticket. With nearly 9,000 faculty and staff members, it is obvious that some sort of priority system had to be developed to decide who got tickets. "The first year we tried a priority system it wasn't really very well organized," Keller said. "That year it was done on the basis of rank alone, so we had a few people who had been buying tickets for 20 years unable to get a ticket that year.

This didn't go over very and a study was then made to see how to best work the priority system." The system that was adopted, Keller said, bases priority on three different criteria. The criteria, she said, in descending order is: loyalty, or the number of years the person has purchased tickets'; longevity, the amount gJ Numbing the of time the person has been employed by the university; and rank. "This didn't go over so well with some of the high-ranking officials," Keller said, "but still it's the fairest thing because the people who have been supporting you all these years are the one who should get the tickets." Some faculty and staff members can only get tickets to half the games. Typically in these cases, the purchaser will get a ticket to either the State or Maryland contests, and half the other games. This system is not always satisfactory to the people involved.

"1 can't say that I'm satisfied with it," Dr. James Leutze, a UNC history professor, said, "but I realize that this is probably the best that can be done in this situation. "1 applied for tickets for all the games," he said, "but 1 only got alf, and they weren't the half 1 would hav chosen. In this way, I might not want to continue paying 25 dollars (a season ticket costs 50 dollars) for several years and not get the tickets 1 want, just in order to later be able to get the tickets 1 want, which is the way the system works." The Educational Foundation is the organization which raises the money for athletic scholarships, about one million dollars annually. The foundation is composed of regular members (people who give less than 100 dollars annually), and Ram's Club members, usually alumni, who donate more than 100 dollars, and up to 10,000 dollars annually.

About 2,350 tickets go to the foundation for its nearly 3,000 members. Ernie Williamson, the foundation's executive vice-president, said that they try to give a Sultan DOWNTOWN FRANKLIN STREET c-nr2T STARTS TOMORROW 22 3:05 5:05 7:05 9:05 0 HELD OVER 6th Big Week HELD OVER 2nd Big Week 2:40 4:55 7:10 9:25 Itofjif I. V'AfJT4 i T- GLENDA lACKSON MICHAEL CAINE HELMUT BERGER The RorrcaRfcic EnglishivomaR STARTS TOMORROW 2:00 4:30 7:00 9:30 CmrmtnV Zoltoprctents Ingmar Bergman's A SURROGATE RELEASE LATE SHOW SAT. NIGHT ONLY 12:30 "DANISH PASTRIES" RATED X-ADULTS ONLY I 2:15 7- 7:05 9:30 fev r. nr-, Kn-iw.

I I VXWS? vf5 16, 1976, the scene is little different from those which have occurred many times in the last ten years; students waiting in line overnight in front of Carmichael Auditorium in preparation for basketball ticket distribution the next day. This time the prize is a ticket to the UNC-Maryland game, but in recent years a ticket to any Carolina basketball game in Carmichael has become a much sought after commodity, so much so that the distribution of the tickets has caused problems for all those associated with it. The basic problem is that there are 8,170 seats in Carmichael Auditorium (not 8,800 as is commonly thought), and for most games there are about twice that many people who want tickets. To have a chance for a ticket to a game in Carmichael, a person must belong to one of four groups of people; students, faculty and staff. Educational Foundation members (people in the Ram's Club) and those people, such as press and player relatives, fortunate enough to get a complimentary ticket.

Others who would like to attend a game have little hope except buying a ticket from someone in one of these four groups, or TONIGHT AT Blue Grass Experience Cat's Cradle Behind Tijuana Fats Rosemary St. GXIilffllte Friklin 8rt 7:15 9:20 hi i ENDS THURSDAY DOUBLE FEATURE Bergman's CRIES AND WHISPERS Feliini's AMARCORD 7:00 9:00 STARTS Jl) IDAYlTiB Madeline Kahn Marty Feldman 1101? 9:00 I Alt I a FRIDAY! Ai t- LATESHOWS FRI-SAT McCABE MRS. MILLER" "BANANAS" rTTTTTTMTIIIIIllirT NCNB Plaza ANN-MARGRET ROGER OALTRY ELTON JOHN THE WHO KEITH MOON ERIC CLAPTON nnim si t.i. 35DGlBilZ Phow 942 8061 it i Gene Wilder 5:50 1 if S2b)) a rv 11 ar The Rugby Club Presents Staff photos by Charles Hardy come, first-serve basis, which in recent years has come to be known as the perseverance method because of the amount of time a student must wait in line in order to get a ticket. Prior to 1972, students lined up at the eight distribution sites inside Carmichael, a situation Keller referred to as "bedlam." She said a couple of students had actually been injured waiting in these lines, due to the large mass of people.

From 1972 until this year, the perseverance method has continued with the students waiting in seats in Carmichael instead of in lines in the hall. Even though this improved the situation; it still wasn't good. Last year, Carolina Athletic Association President Rob Friedman- devised a plan which would distribute the tickets randomly to the first 3,200 students in line, so as to try and reduce the havoc created by people coming in -order get, a good seat. "With this system what we wanted todo Friedman said, "was to accomplish three things. We wanted to hopefully reduce the need for waiting in long lines, be equally fair to all students, and devise a system which would not reflect an additional cost for the athletic department." The 3,200 tickets (1,503 bleacher seats.

1,697 permanent seats) come back from the printers in sections. The members of the ticket office then randomly group the tickets in groups of five or less. These tickets are then placed into envelopes with the designation or (for permanent or bleacher seats) and the number of tickets in the envelope written on the outside of it. Please turn to page 5 III' "Under the Stars" Inside OHEilEAD PLANETARIUM 933-1238 EVERY THURSDAY THRU SUNDAY NIGHT 9:15 and 10:30 PLUS MIDNIGHT FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AND 4:15 SATURDAY AND SUNDAY '9 3 I minimum of two tickets to the members, thus there had to be a priority system here, too. The basis for who gets tickets in this situation is how much money a particular member contributes.

To be able to purchase season tickets this year, an Educational Foundation member had to have contributed 500 dollars in 1975. "We're fortunate here to have probably as loyal a group of alumni as any school in America," Williamson said, "and they of course would like a certain number of tickets, but they've always seemed to be satisfied with the number of tickets we have, and make do with that." Dr. Louis Wilkerson, a Raleigh physician and UNC alumnus, is a Ram's Club member who befits Williamson's comments. An avid basketball fan, his contribution to the foundation is not enough to entitle him to season tickets, but he says this has no effect on his willingness to contribute. "I do get football tickets," he said, "but even if 1 didn't I'd still contribute to the Educational Foundation.

I believe in the program, I think it's good for the university and 1 think it's good for the students who are trying to get an education. "For Carmichael, nobody gets enough tickets," Wilkerson added. "It's not big enough. It wasn't big enough when they built it and until they find a way to build a 12,000 or 1 5,000 seat coliseum, you are not going to keep everybody happy." The largest block of tickets, 3,200 to be exact, go to the students. Along with this goes the biggest problem on how to equitably distribute them.

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