Tents around Kyle Field marked the beginning of the student ticket pull for the much-anticipated

game against Alabama. According to the Aggie Tickets Twitter page,

Monday was the second-highest ticket-pull day in A&M history.

Carole Dollins, senior vice president of the 12th Man Foundation, said the number of tickets pulled on Monday was just over 15,000, which was about the same as estimated.

“It’s probably what we thought,” she said. “It wasn’t the highest ever but it was a strong day.”

Dollins said the lines were long for the first day of ticket pull, but the process went smoothly. She said the foundation doesn’t foresee any problems for the remainder of the week.

“We already have some juniors camping out for to-

morrow,” Dollins said. “I don’t think there will be many [ticket pulls] on Friday. We think everything will be pulled, but we’ll see.”

Kristin Koonce, junior communication major, camped out for the second day of ticket pull. There were 10 lines, or groups, that added their name to a list to ensure that they would have a decent spot in the pulling order, she said.

“Whenever people want to come, they sign their name on the list and there will be a roll call throughout the night and the morning to just make sure they’re here,” Koonce said.

Koonce said her group planned on staying through-out the night for their chance at pulling the best tickets possible.

“We’re hoping for second deck,” she said. “Rumor has it that there are 120 seats left, so that’s what we’re aiming for.”

Morgan Young, junior allied health major, said she was looking forward to the game because she missed out on a previous big game.

“I’m excited for winning — just the craziness,” she said. “I’m pumped because I didn’t get to go to the

No storyline surrounding Tex-as A&M’s matchup Satur-

day against top-ranked Alabama has captured the nation’s attention quite like the Crimson Tide’s desire for revenge.

The nation has had Sept. 14 circled in its calendar since the Aggies’ 29-24 upset of Alabama in Tuscaloosa last season, hoping to see sparks fly between the two conference rivals.

During Alabama’s team press conference Monday morning, soph-omore wide receiver Amari Cooper spoke differently, and said his team’s desire to win was rooted in com-petitiveness rather than vengeance.

“It’s not a revenge thing, be-

cause if we wanted to get revenge, we’d have to play that same team last year with the same team we had last year,” Cooper said. “It’s really not a revenge thing. If you lose a fight with someone, you don’t get revenge from fighting someone else. I think it’s just a new team this year. We’re a new team. It’s no revenge, we’re just going out there and play-ing Texas A&M.”

Behind reigning Heisman Tro-phy winner Johnny Manziel, No. 6 Texas A&M (2-0) has knocked off “tune-up” opponents Rice and Sam Houston State by a combined 58

points, racking up an average of 600 yards total offense with what A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin called a “vanilla” offensive system.

Alabama head coach Nick Saban discussed the A&M offense’s effec-tiveness, citing Sumlin’s use of an air

raid system as key to its success.“This is a fantastic offensive foot-

ball team,” Saban said. “You get 600 yards a game, you average 58 points a game. They did very similarly

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Alabama head coach Nick Saban praised A&M on Monday as a “fantastic offensive football team.”

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Through the offseason, Johnny Manziel showed himself to the world through tweets and hashtags. On Monday, Austin Black used

Twitter to show just as much, with the possibility of exposing even more of himself on Saturday.

At 1 p.m. Monday, Austin — a junior business management major — sent out a tweet promising to streak on the field during the Texas A&M vs. Ala-

bama game Saturday if he received 10,000 retweets. Three hours later — with retweets from notables such as Total Frat Move and several Houston Texans offensive linemen — he exceeded his goal.

The tweet began with ex-pectations of a few hundred retweets and a good laugh, Aus-

tin said. But as the numbers began to grow, Matt Crandall, junior business management major and Austin’s roommate, said their excitement grew with them.

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campus newsGiroir named interim leader at Health Science CenterDr. Brett Giroir was named interim executive vice president for the Texas A&M Health Science Center on Monday. According to a University press release, the position, effective Oct. 1, comes after Giroir’s service as vice chancellor for strategic initiatives, during which time he helped the University land a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for a center to enhance the nation’s biosecurity. Chancellor John Sharp plans to nominate Giroir to become interim CEO for the Health Science Center at the next scheduled meeting of the Board of Regents.

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Students line up early Monday morning to pull tickets for the Alabama game Saturday. Many chose to camp out Sunday night to increase their chances of getting better seats.See Ticket pull on page 8

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The College Station City Council will con-sider the implementation of an Economic

Development Master Plan on Thursday, which will promote a mentality of partnering with Tex-as A&M to maximize economic benefits for Col-lege Station residents.

Thursday’s meeting, at College Station City Hall, will include a public hearing to solicit any input from residents.

City Council members have established six broad initiatives in the proposed plan: sustain and enhance high quality of life, support and partner with the Texas A&M University Sys-tem, support retail development, support and

stimulate biotechnology research and advanced manufacturing, support the health and wellness market and support the sports, entertainment and hospitality market.

Randall Heye, economic development ana-lyst for College Station, said the economic plan marks a new initiative in which the City Council intends to advocate on behalf of the University at the local, state and federal level and engage in

frequent conversation with University officials to fully develop this renewed connection.

Heye said the plan would promote a positive relationship between students off cam-pus and in the neighborhoods they live, as well as seek partnership with the University on eco-nomic development initiatives that will bring

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We will continue to recognize the significance of Texas A&M to the economy and we will ensure that it remains a strong and viable entity. We will partner where mutual economic benefits will be realized.”

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“Part of me is like, ‘Go ahead, go do it, YOLO!’ But the other half of me, the Aggie side, is saying that it’s inappropriate and I’d hiss it if he wasn’t an Aggie. If he was an Aggie I’d try to stop him before

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“If we’re winning the game, he can go streaking for as long as he

wants.” Zach Miller, junior

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“I would have to die and you would have to drag my body

across the field.”

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major

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today. Millions upon trillions of dollars.” Alec Nehlsen, freshman

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“I would be really disappointed in him because I feel like it’s obviously going to be on the news and our student body is just

going to look horrible.”Madeline Bales,freshman allied health major

What would it take for you to streak during the Alabama game?

“If someone streaked in the game, that would be red-ass. Literally.”

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es presented by MSC Town Hall, will be holding a Student Spotlight show Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., in the lower level of the MSC. The show will include student openers and feature singer-songwriter and sophomore general studies major, Daniel Gonzalez.

The shows are usually held every other Thursday and last two hours, with the first hour designated for open mic and the second hour for the headliner.

Brittany Kaczmarek, se-nior nutrition major and ex-ecutive for the Coffeehouse Series, said both touring art-ists and students are featured throughout the year.

“I’m actually more ex-cited about the student headliners because I want students to say, ‘I could do that,’ and then come show off their talent,” Kaczmarek said.

Dave Salmon, the associate director for the MSC and MSC Town Hall advisor, has been the Town Hall advisor for the last 24 years.

“The best thing about the organization is

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The open mic portion of the Coffee-house Series consists of four 10-minutes slots, filled on a first-come, first-served basis on the MSC Town Hall Coffeehouse series

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Jean-Claude Faa, fresh-man mechanical engi-neering major; Amy Westwick, sophomore chemistry major; Trey Lyon, geology gradu-ate student; and Austin Meade, junior agricultural economics major, will open for Daniel Gonzales.

“With a big age variety at a bar or random venue, you get people who are looking for very different varieties of music,” Gon-zales said. “The demo-graphic for A&M students is just right for the age group I want to play for.”

Kaczmarek said choos-ing Gonzales to be the first

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marek said. “If someone has to drop out of the show for some reason, we always call him because we know that we can count on him to show up and put on a great show.”

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Singer-songwriter Daniel Gonzalez, who said “the demographic for A&M students is just right” for his music, will headline MSC Town Hall’s Student Spotlight show Thursday in the MSC.

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The enthusiasm was only damp-ened slightly, Crandall said, with a call to a criminal lawyer who discour-aged Austin from flaunting himself at Saturday’s game.

Lt. Allan Baron of the University Police Department said Austin could receive various charges if he streaks across the field, but he would most likely be charged with criminal tres-passing and disorderly conduct by indecent exposure.

Through streaking, Baron said Austin would be violating the student code of conduct. The University could poten-tially discipline Austin just for his Twit-ter content, but Baron said he would definitely face consequences from the University if he streaked.

“Under the student code of conduct, he would be violating statutes under the student code of conduct by committing this act,” Baron said. “When you be-come a student here at A&M, you not only adhere to the academic standards that have been set forth, but also the conduct standards.”

Despite the consequences, Austin said the reaction on Twitter was as-tounding as he watched his followers increase by hundreds within just a few hours. Complete strangers connected with him, one company offered him free sunglasses for the entirety of the football season and he even received a marriage proposal.

“Some Aggies and different people have tweeted me and said that it’s stu-pid, it’s bad bull and all that,” Austin said. “But I mean, other people have told me that they would pay my bail and some girl actually told me that if I did this that I could propose to her under the Century Tree and she would marry me.”

Austin’s family isn’t as thrilled by his social media fame, Austin said. His mom called him crying and Jessica Black, senior wildlife and fisheries sci-ences major and Austin’s sister, said this is just one more of her brother’s embar-rassing moments.

Jessica said she hopes her brother’s antics will be limited to Twitter, but isn’t looking forward to what she might see on the field.

“I’m probably going to close my eyes and cry,” Jessica said, when asked what she would do if her brother exposed himself to the Aggie nation.

But the notoriety could be worth it

StreakerContinued from page 1

EconomicContinued from page 1

ernment Association, said the relationship between Texas A&M and the city of College Station has been strained in the past due to the exponential increase in students and the residential problems that have accom-panied this increase, includ-ing noise complaints.

“One thing that we’re seeing is that the Univer-sity is growing at such a rapid pace, and that I think is what makes it so hard for the city to connect with it,” Pittman said. “There used to be such a strong relationship between the students and the community.”

Pittman said Texas A&M officials have met with sev-

eral City Council mem-bers to discuss the plan and there has already been a significant improvement in the partnership.

“I believe the University will definitely benefit from the plan,” Pittman said. “The City Council is making a huge point of including the University and it can really only go up from here.”

Bob Cowell, director of planning and development for College Station, said the Economic Development Master Plan has not been the city’s only attempt to recon-nect with the University.

“The recent partnerships to advance the BioCorridor and the expansion of Kyle

Field are just two of these ex-amples,” Cowell said. “The city and A&M have achieved numerous accomplishments together recently that would not have been possible just a few years ago.”

Pittman said he expects to see a much stronger bond between the University and College Station once the Economic Development Master Plan is implemented.

Pittman said part of this stronger bond would hinge on monthly meetings be-tween SGA members and College Station officials.

“We’re even trying to get a committee together to meet once a month with the City Council to maintain this growing relationship,” Pittman said. “The mayor has even expressed interest in attending. I think we have been given a huge opportu-nity to rebuild our relation-ship with the community, and I’m excited to see how this turns out.”

One thing that we’re seeing is that the University is growing at such a rapid pace, and that I

think is what makes it so hard for the city to connect with it. There used to be such a strong relationship between the students and the community.”

— Will Pittman, senior political science major

for Austin. With the fame and a mar-riage proposal, he said jail might not be too bad.

“I talked to the lawyer, and he said I could be in some pretty big trouble, but I could meet my future wife,” Austin said. “Once I get out of jail, I could have a wife. So that’s pretty positive.”

Austin’s “potential wife,” Tayler Hatcher, senior agricultural communi-cations and journalism major, said she tweeted her proposal as a way of en-couraging others to retweet. Hatcher said she hopes Austin doesn’t get in trouble for his tweets and that they re-main simply good-natured social media fun.

“I just hope that he doesn’t get in any trouble because it’s definitely all

in good fun,” Hatcher said. “He seems like a funny guy. It’s getting some fun-ny hype for A&M, getting everybody pumped up for ‘Bama.”

Crandall said he has different designs for Austin, however, and is going to ensure his roommate is the subject of a few thousand more tweets during Sat-urday’s game.

“I told him I was holding him to it the second I saw it,” Crandall said. “So that’s pretty exciting for me.”

Ultimately, Austin said he has yet to decide what he fears more — the legal system or hateful hashtags.

“I’m not too sure if it’s really the best idea, but I guess we’ll just have to see on Saturday,” Austin said.

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The Office of Safety and Security will be hold-

ing its annual TAMU Cam-pus Safety Awareness Week from Tuesday through Thursday, ending with the fifth annual Dorm Room Burn on Thursday at Simp-son Drill Field.

The awareness week con-sists of several safety seminars that teach students and fac-ulty about everything from daily bike and vehicu-lar safety to what to do during an active-shooter situation.

The week is pur-posely held to coin-cide with National Preparedness Month, National Campus Fire Safety Month and Na-tional Campus Safety Awareness Month.

Monica Wein-traub, the emergency management coordi-nator of the Office of Safety and Security at A&M, said the pur-pose of the seminars is to spread emergency readiness to prevent and, if necessary, handle emergen-cies on campus.

“[Campus Safety Aware-ness Week] is an outreach opportunity for [the Office of Safety and Security] to spread emergency prepared-ness information to the cam-pus community,” Wein-traub said. “This week is targeted at students, faculty and staff. We provide a vari-ety of informational sessions since safety encompasses so many different aspects. We just want to show everyone that there are a lot of easy little things that can be done to promote campus safety.”

The awareness week will begin with a meet and greet with local emergency re-sponders in The Zone plaza from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday. The meet and greet is for students and fac-ulty to get to know and talk to local emergency teams, ask questions and to get some information on what campus responders do for students.

Lt. Allan Baron of the University Police Depart-ment said the UPD is glad to get involved in this week

of activities and he is hoping this Campus Safety Aware-ness Week heightens the alertness for the community.

“We hope that students and faculty that attend any of these informational semi-nars find themselves better prepared to protect them-selves as well as learn how to appropriately respond to provide others with help,” Baron said. “Knowing what assistance to provide along with knowing who to call

and what information to provide in emergency situ-ations helps us responders to help you.”

Concluding the week is the Dorm Room Burn, a student favorite, which will be held with support from the College Station Fire De-partment, Domino’s Pizza and Blue Bell Ice Cream.

Along with receiving free pizza and ice cream, attend-ees will also get to see a life-sized model dorm room set ablaze up close. According to the Office of Safety and Security, the point of this demonstration is to show just how quickly a dorm room can burn and to pro-vide advice on how to es-cape such a situation.

“The dorm room burn seems like a really unique demonstration,” said Kath-ryn Williams, sophomore political science major. “I’m hoping that the dorm room burn will teach students that dangerous situations can arise in any instant and we need to be ready for them.”

Events seek to prepare campus for emergenciesLindsey GawlikSpecial to The Battalion

safety awareness week

The annual 9/11 Never Forget Me-morial, hosted by the Texas Aggie

Conservatives, will be displayed in Aca-demic Plaza through Thursday.

The memorial honors the nearly 3,000 U.S. citizens who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks with a flag for each person. TAC chairman and senior biomedical engineering major, Eric Schroeder, said the organization will be adding 21 flags to represent the Ameri-cans who died in the Boston marathon bombing in April and the Fort Hood shooting in 2009.

The memorial is important to TAC, Schroeder said, because it honors those who died as a result of acts of terrorism on U.S. soil.

“Unfortunately in this day and age,

the freedom that we value so much is constantly under attack, especially from foreign sources,” Schroeder said. “We want this memorial to honor those who unfortunately perished on our own soil at the hands of Islamic terrorists.”

The memorial appeared on campus in 2008 and has continued annually. It is done for the benefit of the student body and the Bryan-College Station area, Schroeder said.

“We do not put on this event to receive credit for it, but do it as a ser-vice to the Texas A&M community,” Schroeder said.

Sophomore sociology major, Nicole Sauer, said she thought the memorial was very special.

“The fact that there’s so much re-spect, just honoring those who have lost their lives in really unfair ways, I totally

support this display,” she said.Sauer said she got to participate in

last year’s memorial by placing one of the flags.

“I got the flag and I was like, ‘I know this represents someone that lost their life and I know the family is probably still grieving over this,’” Sauer said. “So I just said a prayer for them. I don’t know who I was praying for but I knew it was for someone.”

With a friend whose father serves in the military, Sauer said she knows how important a memorial like that can be.

“I showed her a picture of the flags and she was just in tears,” Sauer said. “She loved that so much: the fact that just a bunch of students, who don’t even know the people that died are willing to display this for them and lift them up in front of everyone.”

Flag display to honor attack victimsKadie McDougaldThe Battalion

9/11 memorial

(Top) Freshman Blinn Team student Sam McMurry, Josh Gates and freshman business administration major Jessica Harris place flags in the ground at Academic Plaza for the sixth annual 9/11 memorial. (Far left) Freshman general studies major, Cameron JaLufka, sets flags out.

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Largest-ever telescope to provide A&M astronomers access to universe

To boldly go

Science fiction might soon lose the second word in its title. At the top of the Andes Mountains in Chile,

Texas A&M University and a consortium of in-stitutions are building a time machine — not the type that H.G. Wells envisioned for travel into the future, but one that will give astronomers un-precedented ability to peer into the past.

At the time of the publication for Wells’ “The Time Machine,” glimpsing anything but the present was science fiction. Today, it’s called modern astrophysics.

Bigger, Better, FasterThe Giant Magellan Telescope is a record

breaker. When construction is finished around the year 2020, it will be the largest telescope ever created by mankind, generating images 10 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope and giving scientists unmatched access to the universe as it was billions of years ago.

Nicholas Suntzeff, professor of observational astronomy at Texas A&M and member of the GMT’s board of directors, said the telescope will help astronomers see back to a cosmic time when the earliest galaxies and stars were just beginning to form.

“The telescope is so powerful that we will be able to see the other side of the universe,” Suntzeff said. “As we look deeper and deeper into the universe, we’re looking backwards in time because it takes time for the light to get to us. We will literally see where the galaxies stop, and that’s it, that’s the edge of the universe.”

To date, the largest telescopes built have 10-meter mirrors. In comparison, once the GMT’s seven mirrors are in place, the telescope

will have a 25-meter diameter. Suntzeff said the biggest challenge in the telescope’s design was finding a way to manufacture mirrors of that size while maintaining the smoothness necessary to accurately collect light from stellar objects.

“These mirrors are so accurate that if you took them and spread them across the U.S., the largest bump would be about half an inch,” Suntzeff said.

Besides Texas A&M, there are nine other ma-jor GMT partners working on the telescope, in-cluding UT. However, thanks to a multi-million dollar donation to the physics and astronomy de-partment from George Mitchell, Class of 1940, Texas A&M invested the seed money that was critical toward making the telescope a reality.

“George Mitchell’s [donation] was the key to kick-starting this project, and his support through this University was absolutely necessary to the project’s success,” Suntzeff said.

Looking UpThe telescope won’t be completed until 2020,

but this is not stopping Aggie astronomers from anticipating the day when the GMT will be the newest addition to A&M’s research playground.

Kim-Vy Tran, associate professor of phys-ics and astronomy at Texas A&M, said A&M’s role as a main contributor will guarantee Aggie research time on the telescope, a thing hard to come by in the astronomy world.

“Because we are part of the consortium, we will be getting about 10 percent of the time on the telescope,” Tran said. “It’s an amazing opportunity.”

The telescope marks a milestone in Texas A&M’s growing physics and astronomy depart-ment. Darren DePoy, professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M and member of the GMT’s board of directors, said the GMT will

give new opportunities to both Aggie professors and students.

“One of the strengths of our program is that we will couple the telescope to our graduate pro-gram and [graduate students] are encouraged to use it for their dissertations,” DePoy said. “Our goal is to have an excellent graduate astrophysics program and this will allow that to happen.”

In a time when science budgets are facing in-creasing scrutiny in the hopes of cutting costs, Suntzeff said the fact that A&M is moving for-ward in this project sends a powerful message to the astronomy community.

“The best astronomers go to where the best telescopes are,” Suntzeff said. “I guarantee that as A&M becomes a major partner in the GMT, we can hire the best astronomers in the world.”

Seeking answersBesides its meaning for Texas A&M’s emerg-

ing physics and astronomy department, the tele-scope will bring scientists around the world closer to answering fundamental questions astronomers and philosophers have asked throughout history.

“[With the GMT] we can finally answer questions like, ‘Is there life around other stars?’” Suntzeff said. “These large telescopes are going to answer that, and if we are in the sky first, chances are that we can make that discovery.”

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As for Manziel, who torched the Crimson Tide last season with 345 total offensive yards and two touchdowns, Saban said he poses a problem on the ground and in the air.

“I think that he’s going to make some plays,” Saban said. “He’s very instinctive of when he should and shouldn’t [scramble]. He does a great job of keeping his eyes down the field so that when he does scramble, he can find people that are open. And their receiv-ers do a really good job of playing what I call ‘scramble rules’ in terms of how they adjust their routes relative to how he scrambles.”

A&M’s starting defense has yet to play together due to the suspensions of senior linebacker Steven Jenkins, junior defensive tackle Gavin Stansbury and sophomore cor-nerback De’Vante Harris.

Without the suspended players, a youth-filled squad has allowed a combined 59 points to Rice and Sam Houston State.

Saban said the Aggie defense has still per-formed well, with moderate mistakes that re-quire slight adjustments by the coaching staff.

“Defensively, I know some people have had questions,” Saban said. “To me, they played well defensively. They’re physical,

they’re tough, they play hard. They’ve given up a few big plays early in the season, prob-ably due to mental errors or whatever.”

Crimson Tide senior quarterback A.J. Mc-Carron said the Aggies play better as a unit, using their speed to force turnovers and dis-rupt offensive rhythm.

“They do a good job of getting to the ball and making plays,” McCarron said. “They do a really good job of stripping, holding you up and trying to strip the ball. So we’re going to have to protect the football in all aspects of the game — throwing, running. Overall, they have a very sound defense.”

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AlabamaContinued from page 1

Austin Bigoney — THE CRIMSON WHITE

Alabama head coach Nick Saban (left), who

has won three titles

in four years, said Manziel is

“instinctive” and will

make some plays on the ground and

in the air.

I think that he’s going to make some plays. He’s very

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on Johnny Manziel

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last Texas-Texas A&M game and I heard that the stands were just shaking.”

After hearing about the number of students who pulled Monday, Koonce said she wasn’t surprised.

“It doesn’t surprise me one bit,” she said. “This is the ESPN GameDay game. It will be the game to watch on Saturday.”

Like Koonce, Young said she expected the crowd for the game to be enormous.

“The fact that we’re already almost to the third deck on the second day, means there’s not going to be any wiggle room — it’s going

to be crazy,” she said. Dollins said the foundation is continuing

to pursue the students who are reselling their tickets for profit and, once caught, the students may lose their sports pass privileges.

“We are committed to maintaining the guidelines,” she said. “We strongly believe the student tickets should be used by students.”

Young said she couldn’t comprehend how stu-dents could sell their tickets for more than $300.

“I think it’s ridiculous how much they’re selling it for,” she said. “I think they should sell it for the face value.”

Koonce said she hopes students will attend the game rather than sell their tickets.

“We need this stadium packed with the 12th Man,” she said.

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