Men's varsity basketball walk-on tryouts, 6-3 or taller contact Dave Hammer, assistant basketball coach The Michigan Daily SPORTS Intramural cross-country sign-up September 24, 11:00-4:30 p.m. Intramural Sports Building Tuesday, September 18, 1984 Page 7 I of Raising 1ieI By PA UL HELGREN , j F THE many traditions associated with Michigan football, ticket scalping remains the anathema. It is 'the seamy underbelly of a brilliant and industrious :marketing operation that annually pulls somewhere bet- 'ween $8-1 4million into the coffers of the athletic depar- tment. The scalper is the final, tainted link in an informal -' "distribution chain that puts many of the 105,000 fannies into the country's second-largest sports facility every football Saturday. Decent folks should despise and revile the ticket .scalper, we are told. He is a cunning snake who lurks in the corners around the Union, prying tickets fromhis student-prey, then swindling the naive and affluent alum- nus who strolls in on game day without a ticket. Usually the scalping-fiend goes quietly undetected and unharrassed by the police. But lately that's been :changing. Last fall Ann Arbor police arrested a man for selling football tickets at a price higher than their listed value (the case was later dismissed). Last night the Ann Arbor City Council passed a law which would make scalping a $25 violation, rather than the state penalty of $100 fine and 90 days in jail. Athletic Director Don Canahm hates the idea because he is "op- posed to any liberalization of scalping laws." He would rather see the current state law enforced. Some council members think the new law will actually make it easier to prosecute scalpers, because it will only involve a simple ticket from an officer instead of a court case. In any case, by creating the law the council agreed that something had to be done. 'Scalper speaks out At least one scalper finds the current hubbub an over- blown farce. "It makes me laugh at the whole damn thing," said "Aaron;" a 72-year-old entrepreneur who can be found most any day in front of the Union. "If I had a puke bag, I'd use one. The whole thing stinks. We're not selling drugs, we've providing a service." Aaron (his "working" name) resents the charac- terization of the scalper as a sleezy rip-off artist. He said the ticket scalper is the middle man who moves the ticket from the student or professor who doesn't want to attend the game, to the alumnus or fan who does. Scalping law: Much ado about nothing Everybody's happy - except for Canham. Scalping simply galls Michigan's chief athletic executive. All the money generated from scalping bypasses the athletic department. That's bad business. To Canham, bad business is the mortal sin, not to mention a rip-off of the athletic department. Aaron doesn't see it that way, though. He argued that one of the reasons Canham sells so many tickets is that people are assured of reselling them at a profit. Thousan- ds of students and faculty buy tickets because they know they can resell them to scalpers, who in turn sell them to ticketless customers.. Part of the system "We perform a service that nobody else will handle," said the white-haired scalper. "We fill the stadium. We take the risk of losing money, like if it rains or whatever. We get the tickets to the people that want them. We ac- tually are performing a service for Don Canham. If you are about to break out in laughter at the ats urdity of this assertion, think for a second. Why does scalping exist? If everybody who bought football tickets intended to use them, there would be no scalping. Clearly the people who have the privilege of buying tickets and the people who wish to attend the games are not the same. Mr. Canham is not reaching his market. That's where the scalper comes in. Ask yourself a second question. Why are scalpers able to charge such elevated prices for tickets? Answer: People are willing to pay it. The process of getting the tickets from those who have them to those who will pay for them is fulfilled by the scalper. And like any good businessman he takes his cut. So while scalping may be the dirty end of the system that fills'Michigan Stadium every football Saturday, it's a very necessary part of the system. And it's in everybody's best interest to leave it alone. ONE GAME A WA Y FR OM CLINCHING igers down Brew Crew Evans and John Grub were walked made curtain calls from the dugout as By CHRIS GERBASI around the bases, forcing in Herndon. the fans' excitement hit a pennant fever AND SCOTT SALOWICH Lou Whitaker capped the dramatics pitch. Tiger Stadium was ready to explode with his first career grand slam off Righthander Roger Mason pitched st night but the plucky Toronto Blue reliever Jack Lazorka. six strong innings to record his first s - - 4 b-uthplkToB% BOTH PARRISH AND Whitaker major league victory. la Jays defused the bomb. The Tigers managed to beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 7-3, however, Toronto edged Boston, 5-4, to postpone the champagne. ONCE THE TIGERS had buried the Milwaukee Brewers with a six-run sixth inning on the way to a 7-3 victory, all eyes turned to the scoreboard. The Tigers needed a victory and a Toronto loss to. clinch the American League East championship and it seemed they had reached their goal when Boston took a 4-3 lead over the Blue Jays in the ninth inning. Toronto didn't cooperate however, as they scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth to keep Detroit's magic num- ber at one. MILWAUKEE LED, 2-1, going into the sixth, but Lance Parrish tied the game with his thirtieth home run of the season. Larry Herndon followed with a single and, after Chuck Lamden advanced him to second, Barbaro Garbey, Darrell Whitaker ... 'Sweet' grand slam 'N K Parrish ... ignited rally 763-1107 Pool WEDNESDAYS 7-8:30 p.m 10/10 to 11/7 $10/person Stickers outclassed in the East Bike Repair WEDNESDAYS 7-9 p.m. 10/10 to 11/14 $15/person Speed Reading WEDNESDAYS 7-9 p.m. 10/3 to 10/17 $50/person C.P.R. 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The Stickers, venturing east over the weekend to face some of the best field hockey teams in the country, returned -home with an 0-3 record. AP Top Twenty 1. Nebraska (37) ..........2-0-0 2. Clemson (15) ...........2-0-0 3. Texas (4) .............1-0-0 4. Miami, Fla. (1) .......3-1-0 5. Ohio State .............. 2-0-0 6. Brigham Young ........3-0-0 7. Penn State..............2-0-0 8. UCLA (2) ...............2-0-0 9. Washington ...........2-0-0 10. Boston College .........2-0-0 11. Oklahoma ............2-0-0 0 2. Oklahoma State...... 2-0 13. SMU ................1-040 14. Iowa ...................1-1-0 15. Florida State ...........2-0-0 16. MICHIGAN ..........1-1-0 17. Southern Cal ...........1-0-0 18. West Virginia ..........3-0-0 19. Auburn .............0-2-0 ,20. Georgia ...............1-0-0 " * . GNTAG * ' *M C4 . SIVEr- ONET 1UT 1,151 1,083 1,046 897 860 817. 745 726 718 698 663 585 522 398 360 352 173 100 94 57 THE MICHIGAN women were shut out by University of Massachusetts, 5-0, on Thursday, and topped by Springfield College 2-1 on Saturday, before falling to Brown. The Wolverines were overmatched by their strong eastern foes. Besides being outscored 9-1 in the three games, Michigan allowed 60 shots on goal while; managing only 19. Against Brown, the stickers had only four shots on net. Two Michigan players did shine however. Tri-captain Jonnie Terry's strong goaltending kept the scores respectable, and Lisa Schofield, another captain, scored a second-half goal against Springfield to make the game exciting. The stickers have two weeks to regroup before resuming play. Their next weekend of games is Sept. 29-30, when they meet Kent State on Saturday and Michigan State on Sunday. Links tersfinish fifth The Michigan women's golf team finished fifth in a field of seven teams this past weekend in the Ferris State Invitational held at Katke Golf Course in Big Rapids. A total score of 984 placed them well behind Michigan State, which won with a total of 904. Bowling Green took second, scoring 952, and Ferris State and Northern Illinois tied for third at 960. Missy Bauer and Val Madill led Michigan, with each scoring a total of 240. Bauer had the Wolverines' lowest round, a 76 on Saturday. Luann Cherny created some excitement by aceing the 167-yard, par-3, 8th hole. _The low individual medalist was Lori Wetzel of Northern Illinois, who recor- ded a 221. -GREG CHRISTOPHER Aerobic Dance Section 1: M W 4-5 p.m. 9/24 to 12/5 Section 2: T Th 4-5 p.m. 9/25 to 12/6 $25/person Yoga/Meditation Massage MONDAYS 7-9 p.m. TUESDAYS 7-10 p.m. 10/1 to 11/19 10/9 to 11/13 $18/person $25/person GRADUATING COLLEGE STUDENTS 198 PROFESSIONAL QUA LI FIeATION TEST 0 0 / /\ Now's the time to act. Because the NSA Professional Qualification Test (PQT) will be given on selected college campuses on October 20. Successfully competing on this test qualifies you for consideration by the National Security Agency. NSA is currently seeking top graduating students to meet the challenges of its important communications security and foreign intelligence production missions. If you qualify on the PQT, you will be contacted regarding an interview with an NSA representative. 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