[NU Sports] Tipping Point Near ?

[Jeff Beamsley]

This is silly.

First, NU is a private university.  But even if it was state supported,
it has every right to limit access to its campus and its events to those
that it chooses to invite.  Just because you are a state tax payer does
not give you any right to check out a book from your state's university
library  or crash a student-only concert.  Why should it give you the
right to demand a cheap ticket to a football game?

As long as NU doesn't post guards at the gates performing racial,
gender, or sexual orientation checks, they can charge whatever they
figure the market will bear and they can market access to their events
in whatever fashion they think best meets their goals.  

As an alum, I applaud the athletic department's efforts to be
self-supporting.  If higher ticket prices mean more kids can afford to
go to NU, that makes sense to me.  Obviously there is a balance that has
to be struck.  We have a Board, a President, and an AD to determine
where the balance should be.  They clearly have access to way more data
than we do when they decide what the cost of a football ticket on
Saturday should be.  

Your outrage and sense of entitlement reminds me of my great uncle Jim.
He was a wonderful Chicago kind of guy. Without his financial help I
wouldn't have been able to afford grad school.  He never married and
lived very frugally.  He was a lifelong Cubs fan, but stopped going to
the games when they raised the price of a bleacher ticket to a quarter.
He loved bowling but stopped going when they raised the price of a game
to fifty cents.  He only owned two pairs of socks at a time and
carefully showed me how he washed one pair every evening so that it was
ready to wear the next day.  Toward the end of his life, the only luxury
he would allow himself was fluffernutters (it's a sandwich).  I loved
him dearly, but I think that there is more to life than fluffernutters
and laundry.

Jeff

P.S.  Cirque du Soleil was worth every penny

-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
On Behalf Of Dennis W. Brandt
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:31 AM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Tipping Point Near ?

Every one of you who has written in support of seating fees, hidden or
overt, is using the same logic:  Two wrongs make a right, i.e., if
Johnny threw a baseball through Mrs. Smith's window, then I should be
allowed to bust another.  Heaven forbid a publically-funded university
actually make some decent seats available to the general public.  Does
Penn State think they won't be able to sell them?  Universities
allegedly support fairness and diversity but never on Saturdays. 

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