I feel for the displaced families.
When I suggested just switching the students with same seats on the other side of the field, I was told the donors would flip out if they had their eyes in the sun. Having sat in cheap seats on both sides, this wouldn’t be a big deal to me as sometimes as it gets colder, that extra warmth on east side is a plus and I have sunglasses, but it matters to some people.
Not being able to seat my family together would be a bigger deal to me. When my five boys were young, those actual hill hillsides were a blessing. We could afford to take them all to games, even while penny pinching so we could eventually help them through college. As long as nothing weird happens in the next couple of weeks, four of them will have ISU degrees, and the other, who attended college elsewhere, did intern a summer at Ames Lab. They fell in love with the university at a young age. Hilton was never that accessible.
Having paid our last U-bill and become “donors” for a lot less money than the year we paid student fees with three boys at ISU at the same time, we have more options now where we sit but will probably stay in our non donor section for now. More room and we like who we sit by. I do wonder though if after this year when they inevitably turn the old student section into donor seats, if the more fair thing to do is reseat all the non donor seats by priority points. I realize the displaced ticket holders must prefer SE to SW, but it might make seating large families together still possible. I do not think there are enough nondonor seats available for everyone based on what is taken when we get to choose, but letting people in SE with more points boot people from reupping old seats who have less points seems more fair. Also would make more people mad though.
When I suggested just switching the students with same seats on the other side of the field, I was told the donors would flip out if they had their eyes in the sun. Having sat in cheap seats on both sides, this wouldn’t be a big deal to me as sometimes as it gets colder, that extra warmth on east side is a plus and I have sunglasses, but it matters to some people.
Not being able to seat my family together would be a bigger deal to me. When my five boys were young, those actual hill hillsides were a blessing. We could afford to take them all to games, even while penny pinching so we could eventually help them through college. As long as nothing weird happens in the next couple of weeks, four of them will have ISU degrees, and the other, who attended college elsewhere, did intern a summer at Ames Lab. They fell in love with the university at a young age. Hilton was never that accessible.
Having paid our last U-bill and become “donors” for a lot less money than the year we paid student fees with three boys at ISU at the same time, we have more options now where we sit but will probably stay in our non donor section for now. More room and we like who we sit by. I do wonder though if after this year when they inevitably turn the old student section into donor seats, if the more fair thing to do is reseat all the non donor seats by priority points. I realize the displaced ticket holders must prefer SE to SW, but it might make seating large families together still possible. I do not think there are enough nondonor seats available for everyone based on what is taken when we get to choose, but letting people in SE with more points boot people from reupping old seats who have less points seems more fair. Also would make more people mad though.
