Bill Fenwick writes: >[ Clumsy segue alert ] Anyway, all this has got me wondering how other >schools conduct their season ticket sales, or if they even have any. About >half the season tickets at Cornell go in the student sale, while the others >are available for Cornell faculty, staff, and the general public. I was >talking with my friend Bob, a Cornell professor, and he was not pleased with >the fact that the non-student season tix are renewable. He is interested in >getting tickets but is finding it next to impossible, and he fixes the blame >on "those damn townies" who have held season tickets for years and only go >to a few games. He also said that when he was out at Wisconsin (15 or 20 >years ago), the season tickets were not renewable, which he felt was a >fairer system. Of course, since I have renewable season tickets, I >disagreed with him :-) At Minnesota staff and public season tickets are renewable, but student tickets are not. Student season tickets are sold by lottery if applications exceed available tickets, but I believe that the supply has generally been sufficient. I have no idea how these policies will change when the new arena opens next season, though. -- Erik