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Bolles also expressed the hope that the committee established by the HCUA to investigate HAA ticket procedures would produce an objective report. "I can understand that undergraduates have an interest in the teams and in the provisions made for their attendance," he said. It was a student committee, working for the administration, that produced the present arrangement for distributing football tickets, Bolles explained. But in football there is room for everybody who wants to go. Tickets for events like the Yale swimming meet, however, must be sold on a first-come-first-served basis, Bolles said...
HCUA voted unanimously last examine the "entire situation" ticket sales...
...committee, appointed by Schaffer regard for "balance," includes John L. G. Archibald '64, Nicholas D. Nash '62, and Grier H. Raggio '64, Archibald is the author of a letter in Friday's CRIMSON charging the ticket office with "inefficiency and graft." Nash wrote a reply in yesterday's CRIMSON, asserting that "there is little cause for griping." [Nash was not available to confirm acceptance of his appointment...
Further problems that will come under the committee's eye are the apparent priority given to large block purchasers, such as clubs, the advisability of continuing the isuance of expensive ticket books to every undergraduate, and the price of the tickets themselves. The group will also investigate ways to improve the effiency of allegedly careless distribution...
John Archibald has made a serious charge in his recent letter to the CRIMSON in which he asserts that "blatant graft" exists in the handling of tickets within the Department of Athletics. It is not my desire to prolong the tempest brewed by his irresponsible charge, but as Director of Athletics, I feel compelled to comment that there has never been the slightest question as to the loyalty, honesty, and integrity of the ticket office staff...