Groups must improve ticket-selling system
This subject may be a week too old, but it continues to bother me. About two or three weeks ago, the University was selling Chicago Cubs baseball tickets at Norris University Center for the price of $10.
It was a brilliant opportunity for students to get out of their dorms and enjoy a peaceful Tuesday night in the heart of Chicago. While sales began around 8:00 a.m., students such as myself had class and were unable to go to the box office to pick up their tickets. This untimely setup led many students to go in the middle of the day.
Arriving at Norris at 10:00 a.m., we were directed to a massive, twisting line on the East Lawn of Norris. Talking to surrounding students, many of them had been in line for an hour already and were just to fed up to deal with the disorganization.
Over the next two hours, we were led through a tent, around Norbucks and finally around the main lobby. After a frustrating and tedious line, the Box Office was finally in sight! To our shock, we were shortly informed, “We have run out of tickets, we apologize for this inconvenience.” And along those lines, 60 students were rejected from NU Day at Wrigley Field.
The organization and the preparation for that event were absolutely disgraceful. Students were allowed to receive tickets for four absent students. This, in essence, rewarded the absent students for being lazy, while those that did make an effort were rejected.
Another word of advice to the organizers: When there are only two employees selling more than 1,500 tickets to frustrated students, the situation is guaranteed to create frustration. It would have been much more efficient and helpful had the three other by-standing employees actually sold tickets.
Talking to the sophomores and juniors that went to NU Day at Wrigley Field last year, we needed at least 500 more tickets to cover all of the students that wanted to go.
The University may make the argument that we do not have enough money allocated to this event. However, how much of those funds has the University used for campus-wide events (excluding RHA and RCB-sponsored events)?
I hope this letter and the disappointment of the several rejected students across campus causes this event to be more organized and better-planned in the future.
-Harsh Patel
Weinberg freshman
Separation of church, state essential
Recent letters published on the forum page have suggested one cannot be pro-choice, and at the same time a Catholic. This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be pro-choice.
Pro-choice is not pro-abortion. What being pro-choice means is you do not believe the government should have a say in what a woman does with her body. The idea that someone cannot hold a religious belief without also believing the government should enforce that belief is fallacious.
I am an observant Jew. I refuse to mix milk and meat and I won’t eat meat that is not sold at a kosher butcher. This is what I have learned from my Rabbis and my traditions and it is what I believe to be right. This does not mean I think the United States government should make everyone keep kosher.
The separation of church and state is invaluable and makes this country a safe place to practice any religion. I am pro-choice not because I think abortions are a good thing to have happen to the fetus or the mother, but because I refuse to live in a country that legislates religious beliefs.
-Benjamin Sanders
SESP junior
Due to a misunderstanding in editing, this letter was originally credited to Aekta Patel. THE DAILY regrets the error.
