2A - Wednesday, October 10, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom 0 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. SCOTT MILLS Have a campus mystery you want the Daily to solve? E-mail hchris@ umich.edu. ANGELA CtSERt/Daily MSA Rep. Lauren Washington waits as students vote for Homecoming King and Queen on the Diag yesterday after- noon. 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