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SGA proposes limiting season
ticket purchases by students
By MATT THACKER
Cardinal Staff Writer
If a new proposal by the Student
Government Association passes,
student season ticket ·holders for
the University of Louisville men's
basketball and football games will
be limited to one ticker purchase
next year.
In past years, students have
bought rickets for themselves and
guests at the annual Ticket Cam­pout
held in the spring, but with a
cormoversial new proposal by the
SGA, the purchase of a guest ticket
will be eliminated.
A committee of the SGA agreed
that the change is needed due to
expected higher ticket demand next
year. U ofL will be entering the Big ·
East conference, and although the
Big East does not regulate ticket
sales, membership in a more presti­gious
conference and higher-ranked
opponents are expected to increase
ticker sales.
SGA president Ryan McKinley is
a member of the committee. He said
that, with the growth of Cardinal
athletics, the school must create a
student section to rival that oflarger
schools. He said eliminating guest
tickets will help to accomplish that
goal because it will allow more ticket
purchases by U of L students.
"I think it's a good thing," he
Terra Simms I Louisville Cardinal
If passed, an SGA proposal will eliminate guest season ticket purchases by
students for men's basketball and football games.
said. "It's a step in the direction of
having a more organized student
section."
Keri Barnes, public relations of­ficer
for L-Raisers, U ofl:s student
spirit club, strongly supports the
proposal.
"So many students were giving
their tickets to non-students, and
we wanted to show U of L pride
instead of only one in four seats
being students," she said.
Other students have concerns
with the proposal.
"I think that it's ridiculous," said
senior Melanie Miranda. "A lot of
people who get guest passes give
them to alumni."
Miranda said this strengthens the
alumni-student relationship.
SGA senato~s Andy Goss and
David Lasoski question the legiti­macy
of the decision and the process
by which the ruling was made. The
senators who opposed the proposal
won the original senate vote held
Nov. 9, but McKinley felt there was
enough dissension among voters to
create a committee to review the
topic. Goss and Lasoski said they
·were led to believe the co~mittee
was being formed .for the purpose of
investigating how other Big East
see TICKETS, page 3
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Men's basketball scrimmage opened to student body
By KARA KUCZUN
Cardinal Staff Writer
University of Louisville head
basketba)l coach Rick Pirino and
the Louisville Cardinal basketball
team will host a scrimmage open to
students on Dec. L
The scrimmage starts at 4 p.m.
at Freedom Hall. Pitino and the
athletic department intend for it to
boost school spirit in the student
section during basketball games.
Jason Buckner, assistant director
for the Cardinal Athletic Fund for
University of Louisville Athletics,
said this is the first time Pitino has
opened up a practice for students
since he began coaching at U ofL.
"We want this to be packed,"
Buckner said. "We want students
to be energetic and wear their red
shirrs." ·
The athletic department has also
started a student committee to liven
up the student section at basketball
games. Buck­ner
said that
members of the
committee are
responsible for
.making posters,
decorations and
coming up with
creative ideas to Coach Rick Pitino
make. the student section more
active.
The work of the new committee
is also coordinated with the; band
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and cheerleaders to get an "orches­trated
effort into making Freedom
Hall an intimidating place to be,"
Buckner added.
The goal of both the commit­tee
and the open scrimmage is to
make the University of Louisville
student cheering section parallel
to the cheering sections of the top
basketball schools in. the nation.
"I have always complained about
how our student section doesn't
even come close to measuring up
to other great basketball schools like
Florida, Maryland and Duke," said
committee member Shannon Jeffer­ies.
"To have an even greater home
court advantage you have to have a
student section that gets everyone
excited and loud, even against less
difficult opponents."
Jefferies· believes that in order to
have more school spirit the students
must feel the athletic department is
interested in them. The scrimmage
see SCRIMMAGE, page 2
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