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Class of 2009, your hopes of front row football tickets next year have officially been shat on. In case you haven’t heard, an e-mail was sent out today announcing that the University has rescinded its decision to award seats based on class standing. They will be assigned again based on credit hours “counted by the University”. I’m not really sure what that means, but I assume credits from other undergraduate institutions are counted in addition to credits earned in Michigan Grad School.
As an undergrad, I’m clearly not thrilled about this decision. There’s got to be some sort of middle ground. Someone who went somewhere else as an undergrad shouldn’t get front row seats the instant he becomes a Michigan law student, not after over a thousand others spend 3 years coming to games bleeding maize and blue. The University should form a system where it’s based off Michigan credit hours and/or previous purchases of season tickets. I’m sure there are plenty of other ways this could be settled.
Undergrads pre-game hard, travel in large spirited groups and embody what being a college fan is all about. The majority of graduate students wake up at 11:30, put on their pants and walk down to the front row of Michigan Stadium. I base this on nothing, but it’s true. When the college gameday cameras are rolling around the corner end-zone it should be the undergrads with painted faces, not the same graduate students for 3-5 seasons that get to be seen on ABC.
As an undergrad, I’m clearly not thrilled about this decision. There’s got to be some sort of middle ground. Someone who went somewhere else as an undergrad shouldn’t get front row seats the instant he becomes a Michigan law student, not after over a thousand others spend 3 years coming to games bleeding maize and blue. The University should form a system where it’s based off Michigan credit hours and/or previous purchases of season tickets. I’m sure there are plenty of other ways this could be settled.
Undergrads pre-game hard, travel in large spirited groups and embody what being a college fan is all about. The majority of graduate students wake up at 11:30, put on their pants and walk down to the front row of Michigan Stadium. I base this on nothing, but it’s true. When the college gameday cameras are rolling around the corner end-zone it should be the undergrads with painted faces, not the same graduate students for 3-5 seasons that get to be seen on ABC.
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AXOs always in my seats pshh Posted 03/24/2008 9:21 PMReply
The typing in the caption I actually said out loud, the second part at least.
Congrats, you're famous. Posted 03/24/2008 9:25 PMReply
2) it doesn't make sense that they rescinded the law. it kind of does, because people that are in grad school that came here semi-deserve it, but do they really show as much scholastic responsibility as other students? In this regard, 4th year med students would be in the front row, but **** they don't always have enough time, so I actually think that seniors deserve it. They'll be the most enthusiastic and will be the happiest with the seats. Grad students never should be put behind freshmen (I was one pretty recently), but people should be wolverines as undergrad seniors before being grad students here--these students have had their chance. And this is as someone who is drunk at 2:55am on a monday. Posted 03/24/2008 11:55 PMReply
Putting it another way: the old system sat all students, undergrad and graduate, proportionate to how long they've been at UM. So first year grad students with freshman undergrads, second-years with sophomores, and so on. New system would put even a fifth-year grad student behind an undergrad freshman. New system's been scrapped.
So, there. By the way, I tailgated early in the mornings, got to the games in time to see the band, and stayed to the end of blowouts. But while we're playing the generalization game, the undergrads I stood with spent most of the time bitching about the playcalling and/or yelling for the backup quarterback, yelling Anchorman quotes and jingling their keys all dainty-like at times when they should be screaming as loud as they can. Posted 03/25/2008 7:15 PMReply
Additionally, if you had half a brain, you would know that the seating is done around the stadium, not up and down. It is more desirable to be higher up at the 35 than down low in the endzone, you can't see anything down there. Therefore, the more credits you have, the closer to the 50 you are, not necessarily closer to the field. Posted 03/25/2008 7:34 PMReply
If you had half a brain you'd stop bitching and shut the **** up.
Why don't you go kiss Mary Sue Coleman's ass some more. Posted 03/26/2008 08:26 AMReply
Go suck on your mother's teet. Undergrad out of state students pay $32,000 or so per year and I'm not bitching, but quietly taking it all out in loans. You're only a GSI for what, 5 years tops if a PhD student? You knew what you were getting yourself into, so why whine and complain? And for you masters students, c'mon. Unless you're a ****ing retard, you're here for 2 years.
Shut up, do your shit, get out and make the money you knew you were going to make when you finished your program or you would have never come here in the first place.
Biaaaatch. Posted 03/26/2008 2:49 PMReply
If you had half a brain it wouldn't have taken you that long to finish graduate school. Posted 03/26/2008 5:07 PMReply
**** me gsis aren't worth a dollar....is there even a gsi on campus that speaks legible english? Posted 03/26/2008 5:53 PMReply
on a side note, a rider to the new GEO contact included a cap of 75 mental visits for a certain Travis Radina, because as we all know, he is a whack job. Posted 03/26/2008 10:12 PMReply