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2A - Wednesday, October10, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom 0
MONDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
TUESDAY:
Arbor Anecdotes
THURSDAY:
Explained _Before You Were Here
FRIDAY:
The Extremist
ELECTING A KING AND QUEEN
Sticker shock
In order to give or sell your stu-
dent football- ticket to someone
who's not a student, you have to buy
a $27 sticker, which allows that per-
son to get into the stadium without
an MCard. The process of buying
this sticker and affixing it to your
ticket is referred to as "validation"
by the Athletic Department's Ticket
Office.
Why is this necessary, you ask?
Why must you buy this expensive
little sticker?
The answer is just short- of
simple. Before the 2002 football
season, anyone could waltz into
the stadium with a student ticket
- neither students nor non-stu-
dents were required to show any
form of ID to get through the gates.
This meant students could give or
sell their tickets to anyone, without
paying more than they had already.
But in September 2002, the tick-
et office began requiring students
to present their MCards with their
tickets at the gate. Anyone holding
a student ticket without an MCard
would be turned away. Unless, that
is, they had the sticker - the $27
sticker.
Most large universities have
similar validation policies these
days, but there are a few excep-
tions. At Michigan State, for
example, anyone can get into the
stadium with a sticker-free stu-
dent ticket and a student ID - any-
body's student ID.
Marty Bodnar, director of ticket
services here at the University, said
validation was originally intro-
duced to make sure students who
wanted to attend football games
could secure a ticket - because
non-students would theoretically
pay the same for a validated stu-
dent ticket as they would for a pub-
lic ticket.
Additionally - with the MCard
requirement beingintroduced at the
same time - validation would allow
non-students to continue purchas-
ing and using student tickets.
"Validation offers students the
opportunity to give their tickets to
non-students," he said.
That is, validation allows stu-
dents to give or sell their tickets
to non-students now that MCards
are required at the gate. Students
could, of course, always give or
sell their tickets to non-students,
but the new Mcard obstacle
required a workaround - a $27
work around.
Whether the Mcard requirement
precipitated validation, or the desire
to introduce validation precipitated
the MCard requirement, Bodnar
would not say.
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CRIME NOTES
Woman steals
snack
WHERE: Kellogg Eye Center,
990 Wall St.
WHEN: Mondayat about 1:30
p.m.
WHAT: A staff member
reported that a female not
affiliated with the University
stole three containers of food
from the building, the Depart-
ment of Public Safety reported.
The food stolen included two
bottles of V8 splash, a Star-
bucks Frappuccino and two
yogurt cups. The incident is
under investigation.
Laptop stolen
from office
WHERE: Angell Hall
WHEN: Monday at about 9
a.m.
WHAT: A staff member report-
ed that a laptop was stolen from
his office sometime on Oct. 3,
DPS reported. There were no
signs of forced entry. Police
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
have no suspects.
Park bench
damaged
WHERE: 2000 block of Fuller
Avenue
WHEN: Monday at about.
p.m.
WHAT: A 6-foot portion of a
wooden bench was found bro-
ken off, DPS reported. Police
have no suspects.
Lab experiment
damaged
WHERE: Harrison Randall
Laboratory
WHEN: Monday at about 4
p.m. .
WHAT: A laboratory experi-
ment was damaged, DPS
reported. A staff member called
police to report the incident.
The cost of the damage in
unknown and police have no
suspects.
Free depression Grad school fair
screenings
WHAT: Medical profes-
sionals will offer free and
confidential screenings for
depression. Researchers will
also be taking volunteers for
upcoming studies.
WHO: Department of Psy-
chiatry and the Depression
Center
WHEN: Today from 5 to 7
p.m.
WHERE: Rachel Upjohn
Building, 4250 Plymouth
Road
A cappella
performance
WHAT: A concert; $3 tickets
WHO: Singing groups Amazin'
Blue, The Sopranos andThe
G-Men.
WHEN: Today from 8 to 10
p.m
WHERE: Auditorium B,
Angell Hall
WHAT: An informational
fair with representatives
from more than 100 different
graduate school programs.
Financial aid information
also will be available.
WHO: Career Center
WHEN: Today from 2 to 6
p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union
Ethics in sports
lecture
WHAT: Thomas H. Murray
will speak on topics like ste-
roid use and game-fixing.
WHO: Department of Psy-
chiatry and the Depression
Center
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m.
WHERE: Ford Auditorium,
University Hospital
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"good."
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