Mine arrived today. Includes an application for tix to the CCCC Harvard game on 2002-12-15 (sideline $17 (all), corners/ends $12 (adult) and $5 (youth/seniors)). Tix available to general public "after Oct 25th". Additional regular season games tix available this Saturday Oct 28th from 8-11am. 207-581-BEAR or 1-800-756-TEAM w/questions. Several notes were listed. As far as I recall, only the last one is a change. Here's my summary of the notes, *** tongue in cheek ***: - The schedule arrived with the tickets. And I thought this would be like early season youth hockey, where you have to go to the 1st game to learn when the next one will be. Just to rub salt in the wound, the schedule is dated 6/25. * Doors open 1 hour prior to start of game: pray for good weather, jon. * Everyone 3yrs and older requires a ticket for admission: If I had a 3-year-old, she would not require a ticket. The University requires the ticket, not the toddler. * No outside food is permitted in the arena: maybe inside your jacket is OK. * Smoking only outside of NW corner, not main entrances: bring a compass! (The SE corner should be smoke-free). * Re-sale of tix on University property is prohibited: In that spirit, the ticket office is being permanently relocated to Veazie. * Lost or destroyed tickets (don't do it): tough luck. Maybe you can stand at the end of the line and buy standing room at the end of the 1st period (of every game), understanding, of course, that there is no standing room, except in the room labeled "Men". The last one: * "The Athletic Ticket Office will no longer accept individuals to drop tickets off at Will Call. Please make arrangements for your tickets before game time" Do you suppose this means they want you to bring your tix before the user of them will actually show up? Good policy! But maybe it means, "we already sold these incredibly expensive tickets once ... get out of my face". As much as I dislike the "service fee" for purchasing tickets, I wouldn't mind paying $2 or $3 to have them hold tix for my friends, when I couldn't make it to the game ... but I'd rather feel appreciated with a smile and a "Thank you, Mr. Smith", as has been the case ... forever. P.S. If you're going to argue about any of the idiotic things (I wrote above), please reply to the list ... I've my truths; we all deserve a laugh from yours. :-) P.P.S. Hopefully The Athletic Ticket Office Manager has a good sense of humour ... it's still early in the year. And luckily for us, we have a great team and coaching staff! Go Bears! cheers, wayne Wayne T. Smith [log in to unmask] Old Town Landing The College Hockey lists: Hockey-L and Hockey3 at http://lists.Maine.edu/