Word: ticket
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After a single day of investigation and complaint taking, Council President Levin H. Campbell, 3rd '48 released a statement on the results of preliminary investigations of the H.A.A.'s method of ticket allotment last night calling the H.A.A. plan "fair in broad design" but 'falling down in a number of details...
...frequent cause for complaint cited in the Council document is the H.A.A. policy of re-selling turned-in tickets on a first-come, first-servd basis at their ticket office. The statement alleged that this practice often permits non-Harvard spectators to appear in excellent seats on the Harvard side, and asked that some new plan "whereby Harvard undergraduates could got first shot at turned-in seats" be adopted to improve the situation...
Camphell indicated that the volume of complaints seems to indicate that something is peculiar in spite of yesterday's statement by Frank O. Lunden, ticket manager of the Association, who assured all students that his office was doing its best to cope with the flood of applications for this Saturday's game, and that no undergraduate was deliberately being beaten out of a good seat...
While the prehistoric design of the Stadium starts the ticket scramble off with an initial handicap, the real villain of the piece is a procedure for issuing student tickets so antiquated that its origins can be recalled only by the preadamites of the H.A.A. Tradition has it that the cheering sections must be kept inviolate--no women allowed. Under the present system this means that when a student turns in his H.A.A. ticket as payment for one of the seats for his date and himself, his former seat is resold to any male who can produce the requisite ante. Large...
...result of this system of ticket allotment is that at any game which draws a large attendance--and those are the ones he most wants to see--the undergraduate-with-date is relegated to the bleak outlands; and he will continue to get the same treatment unless the seating plan is revised. The H.A.A. could profitably consider the system which is now used by Michigan and a number of other large mid-Western colleges. Students are issued season coupon books rather than assignments to a particular seat. Men desiring single seats to any given game are required to exchange their...