They did make it less enticing to bring them in this year with the 15% fee. Also students wont be able to sneak friends in without a validated ticket it looks like any more. the cheapest non student ticket will cost $64.01. Thats excluding any side deals of course.

Speaking of side deals, I have a feeling we’ll have plenty of those going on this year. Its a step in the right direction though, no doubt.

Why should a non-student guest not be allowed to purchase a ticket and sit with a student in the student section? Oftentimes the student section isn’t exactly filled to 100% capacity, so why not let in non-students who would also be cheering for Penn State, so long as they are accompanied by a Penn State student? If my brother or best friend or somebody wants to come, I don’t see any reason why they shouldn’t be able to come to the student section with me. And I’m even fine with the $29 non-student validation fee. Heck, if a non-student friend is willing to pay $65 or more to come to the game and experience the Greatest Show in College Football in the #1 Student Section in the country, chances are they’ll be cheering louder and be more into the game than a lot of the students who (at least in past years) have bought season tickets as a purely social thing, don’t know the rules of football, show up late, leave early, and never pay attention to the game. I’ve seen wayyy too many of those people in my four years of being in the senior section (I’m a grad student), and wish their tickets could’ve gone to people who actually want to be there, student or non-student.

I also think it’s pretty lame that the BJC enforces an “absolutely no non-students allowed” policy in the student section for basketball games. In the past I’ve wanted to bring along one non-student friend with a group of a bunch of students, and we then had to go way up in the nosebleeds because of that policy. It was an especially dumb policy during the days when the student section courtside was half-empty.

since you’d have the ticket linked to your ID, and you can only bring 1 guest per ID, you’d be able to bring a family member or friend, and not have to sit in different areas (or buy a second ticket for yourself to sit in alumni seating). This will pretty much limit it to a single friend per person, and you’d have to sit together, so not like you’re gonna be selling a “ticket” to some random person on gameday. Yeah, people can always plan ahead and organize a way to get a big group into the student section or whatnot, but what’s the hassle (especially when you’d be paying probably the max per ticket anyway.

then again, you could just meet up at the computer lab or something.

I wonder why they put the minimum price at $30. I’m sure so they still get their 15%, but they could always say that there will be a minimum $4.50 charge associated with all sales. I could just see Eastern Illinois being a bit emptier without the ability to sell for less than $30

however, I wouldn’t be surprised if they have a computer at the ticket entrances that would be able to look up the ID# on your card (since the number and your picture is on the ID already) to eliminate this problem. But if it’s a concern for you, I’d e-mail the Ath. Dept. and see if they have any answers for you.

I’m guessing you are 21 yrs old.

During those 21 years, I’m gonna say that you probably didn’t really have any of your own money until probably ~15 or so. And I don’t think you can legally get your own credit card (without parental consent, and I think it is still then THEIR card in your name) until ~18. So that’s going 4 years without a credit card. I’m also going to go out on a limb and say that your parents probably do have a credit card that they used to purchase things for you when you were under 18.

Not saying that it is impossible to live without a credit card, and it is definitely worth living without debt, but a credit card isn’t a bad thing if you manage it properly (i.e. ALWAYS pay off your entire bill every month). It is actually a good thing to have a credit card or 2 in order to build up your credit score for when you actually need to take out a loan or get a mortgage (unless you’re rich enough that you can pay cash for a house, in which case more power to you). It is also nice fot these types of situations where credit card is either the easiest, or only way of paying for sometihng, or if you can’t access cash, or need to purchase something relatively expensive like a TV or whatnot.

There are definitely pros and cons to credit cards, but at least in my opinion there is more good than bad (as long as you do things smartly, check your bill to make sure there aren’t any fraudulent charges, and one thing I recently learned is to ALWAYS sign the receipts, even when they don’t print one out automatically [typically for purchases under $25 now at most places], and at gas stations where they just give you a receipt but you don’t sign anything. It didn’t happen to me, but a guy I know had some fraudulent charges on his card and petitioned his credit company to remove them, and they claimed that there was no proof they were fraudulent, since there were no signatures, and that other purchases he had made had no signatures either, due to those tactics. He, unfortunately for them, always demanded to sign for EVERYTHING, and so when they actually looked at his history, saw that all receipts had signatures.)

Nevermind, you can’t have a second ticket forwarded to you.

Fire Curley.

That TC has found away to pretty much eliminate selling student tickets.