Tuesday, September 11, 2007
First Game Reaction?
I know a lot of people in our block were going to their first ever football game. If you were one of them, tell us what you thought!
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Camping and Guarantees
Some questions from a member of the block:
You, yourself, don't have to camp for tickets. That's one of the advantages you get by signing up for our block. Someone in our organizing committee is going to take our batch of vouchers to the ticket office and camp for you for every game. Even for the Samford game, our guys went to the office at 5:30am to wait in line before the office opened at 9:00am, just in case there was something broken in the ticket policy.
I can't tell you anything about the AA fees or changes to the rules, but the policy now is to have a separate line at the ticket office for graduate students and a reserved allotment of tickets for graduate students for every game. Moreover, if that allotment runs out before all the other tickets run out, the students at the window are supposed to start giving graduate students tickets from the undergraduate allotment. That gives graduate students a big advantage over undergraduate students even if they aren't in our block. Now, there was supposed to be a separate line for claiming vouchers too, but that wasn't the case, so we're still a little nervous ourselves.
Gail is very worried about graduate students being overlooked, and she's called the ticket-office managers several times to confirm the details of their policy. I'm sure she'll send our guys to camp for the Georgia game. Incidentally, the tricky rules for tickets were the chief motivation for Gail to create this block for graduate students in our department in the first place. Most students didn't know what to do.
If you want to take matters into your own hands at anytime you are welcome to collect your remaining vouchers from Gail. They're yours after all, but I think everyone has a big advantage in being a graduate student and a big advantage in being in our group, despite the lack of a guarantee.
If anyone is capable of comparing this year's ticket policy with last year's policy, especially in how they treat graduate students, please leave a comment here.
1. Do grads have to camp for these tickets? Or do we get them as part of the deal last year after the hike in the AA fees that grads were not willing to approve but got approved anyways?
2. How can we ensure that we will get UGA tickets? Last time I saw
about 10 people willing to camp.
You, yourself, don't have to camp for tickets. That's one of the advantages you get by signing up for our block. Someone in our organizing committee is going to take our batch of vouchers to the ticket office and camp for you for every game. Even for the Samford game, our guys went to the office at 5:30am to wait in line before the office opened at 9:00am, just in case there was something broken in the ticket policy.
I can't tell you anything about the AA fees or changes to the rules, but the policy now is to have a separate line at the ticket office for graduate students and a reserved allotment of tickets for graduate students for every game. Moreover, if that allotment runs out before all the other tickets run out, the students at the window are supposed to start giving graduate students tickets from the undergraduate allotment. That gives graduate students a big advantage over undergraduate students even if they aren't in our block. Now, there was supposed to be a separate line for claiming vouchers too, but that wasn't the case, so we're still a little nervous ourselves.
Gail is very worried about graduate students being overlooked, and she's called the ticket-office managers several times to confirm the details of their policy. I'm sure she'll send our guys to camp for the Georgia game. Incidentally, the tricky rules for tickets were the chief motivation for Gail to create this block for graduate students in our department in the first place. Most students didn't know what to do.
If you want to take matters into your own hands at anytime you are welcome to collect your remaining vouchers from Gail. They're yours after all, but I think everyone has a big advantage in being a graduate student and a big advantage in being in our group, despite the lack of a guarantee.
If anyone is capable of comparing this year's ticket policy with last year's policy, especially in how they treat graduate students, please leave a comment here.
First Round of Leftovers
Pam says she has more than sixty tickets left for the Samford game. Therefore, if you couldn't make it to her office today, you can probably still get a ticket tomorrow. It's just that you're no longer guaranteed your ticket.
If you want an extra it looks like you'll be able to get one pretty easily.
If you submitted your vouchers late for this game, we told you that we couldn't submit your voucher and you're not guaranteed a ticket. However, since there are extras, you should still be able to go.
If you want an extra it looks like you'll be able to get one pretty easily.
If you submitted your vouchers late for this game, we told you that we couldn't submit your voucher and you're not guaranteed a ticket. However, since there are extras, you should still be able to go.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
First Round of Ticket Distribution
Tickets for the Samford game are now available for you in Pam Halverson's office, which is Klaus 2350a. We'll hold tickets for you until the end of the day (4:00pm) on Thursday. Starting Friday we'll try to get rid of the extras by making them available for people in our group who want extras.
Bring your ID!
Bring your ID!
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Email List
Everyone's email address has been added to a Georgia Tech mailing list. The address for the list is ece-grad-tailgate@lists.gatech.edu, but to spare everyone from email chatter no one is allowed to send email through the list but me. If you want to talk to others on the list, you should make a comment here.
Getting Started
We have 145 students in the block now, which far exceeds the expectations of everyone organizing it. We just received two more voucher sets today, so maybe we're not done collecting them yet.
We'll rip off the Samford vouchers from everyone's set and redeem them in the morning on Tuesday, September 4th. You can pick them up from Pam Halverson (Klaus 2350a) starting on Wednesday, September 5th. The game starts at 1:30pm on Saturday, the 8th.
Please get your ticket before the end of the day on Thursday of that week. We don't want to be left with a bunch of unused tickets, and we need a day to distribute the unwanted ones to people in the group who need extras.
We'll rip off the Samford vouchers from everyone's set and redeem them in the morning on Tuesday, September 4th. You can pick them up from Pam Halverson (Klaus 2350a) starting on Wednesday, September 5th. The game starts at 1:30pm on Saturday, the 8th.
Please get your ticket before the end of the day on Thursday of that week. We don't want to be left with a bunch of unused tickets, and we need a day to distribute the unwanted ones to people in the group who need extras.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Today is the Day
It's August 20th, which means that every graduate student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering should run by the ticket office at the football stadium and present their student ID to claim their vouchers. Make sure you ask for graduate vouchers. I'm not sure that they'll examine each voucher in our set when we redeem them for each game, but we won't have to worry if they're all the right kind.
The next step is to label the last voucher with your name and email address. Then drop them off at the office of Gail Palmer, Klaus 2308. After that, you're set. We'll redeem vouchers for tickets every week before a game, and you can pick up your tickets from us at your leisure instead of rushing to the ticket office.
Any questions?
The next step is to label the last voucher with your name and email address. Then drop them off at the office of Gail Palmer, Klaus 2308. After that, you're set. We'll redeem vouchers for tickets every week before a game, and you can pick up your tickets from us at your leisure instead of rushing to the ticket office.
Any questions?
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