Guys, I'm sorry to post this here but it is a bit of an emergency and I don't have acccess to the tickets forum. Here's what my degree audit says about my hours: Current Academic Standing Carr Earn QPts LSU Totals: 63.00 92.00 207.00 3.28 Cum Totals: 63.00 92.00 207.00 3.28 Status : Good Standing Now, I thought I had 63 hours, so I'd apply for tickets this week. Ends up LSU's ticket system uses the Earned, not Carried hours, so I get an email today telling me I missed the deadline for 91+ hours last week. DAMMIT! :angryfire All my friends got tickets! Is there anything I can do to plead my case and get them this week? If I wait until the end of the ticketing process like they say I have to, I will never get tickets. I've been looking forward to this season so long! I can't sit it out! :helmet:
Ok, well the ticket office is closed, so I sent them this email: Hello, I am Adam ******, an LSU student trying to get football tickets. I am entering my Junior year this fall, and tried to log on today to reserve my student tickets. Instead, I was told I had missed my deadline, that I was supposed to apply last week. I was unaware of this. My degree audit hours summary reads as follows: Current Academic Standing Carr Earn QPts LSU Totals: 63.00 92.00 207.00 3.28 Cum Totals: 63.00 92.00 207.00 3.28 Status : Good Standing That means I have 63 hours carried (for six semesters at LSU), 92 hours earned. I was completely unaware of the 92 hour figure. I read, as a member of the Junior class, that my degree audit displayed 63 hours credit. Furthermore, the ticketing instructions on lsusports.net regarding student tickets are unclear. Nowhere is it stated that the ticket office administers tickets according to "Earned" hours rather than "Carried" hours. I came into LSU two years ago with 19 hours of Advanced Placement credit from high school and 11 hours from spring testing, but I did not even consider those earned hours, much less factored them into when I should apply for my student tickets. Myself and all my friends are members of the Junior class; consequently they were all able to apply for tickets today, as they were under the 92 hour mark. The only statement regarding hours on the lsusports.net ticketing website is that "* ONLY LSU HOURS EARNED AS OF SPRING 2005 SEMESTER ARE COUNTED" (http://www.lsusports.net/index.cfm?...=317&pnid=279&l=2&cpid=461&catid=0&category=). I had earned 63 hours in my two years at LSU, but to my surprise I could not apply with my class. I am an undergrad, yet I receive no indication until today that I have to apply with the grad students, whose time has passed. I realize that to apply earlier than my fellow classmates is a privilege, but it was one I could not even take advantage of. Therefore I am asking to be reinstated for the ticket application process for the 60-91 hour week. I was under the assumption that I would apply with my Junior class, and to do so I am even only one earned hour over. I do not want to think I have been punished for taking college credit courses in high school. And I would be hard pressed to believe that with some 30,000 students, with ever-shifting hour totals, that an predicament such as mine has never occurred before. Please understand that this is important to me, as a fourth-generation LSU student with a great-grandfather in the LSU football hall of fame and as someone who has, for the past two years, applied for and received hassle-free his student tickets. I was so confident in my status that I marked July 16 on my calendar and counted down to the day to get football tickets. All my friends will spend Saturday night in Death Valley, and I am disappointed to think that I would have to spend my Saturday nights on the outside looking in because no one told my I was considered a graduate student. Thank you for your patience and time, and I hope you will consider my request. I am sending this email as the ticket office is closed for the weekend, but I intend to call the office on Monday. Thank you and Geaux Tigers, Adam ****** I don't know if that's the best way to put it, but I made my case. My dad even said he could represent me as my attourney if the text on the website was that scant and misleading :thumb: Gotta get those tix! :helmet:
John J. Seip is the hall of famer, although my grandmother's father, "Cap" Gandy, played on the same team. Its the 1907-08 team famous for the 56-0 game vs U. of Havana in Cuba on Dec. 25, 1907. We have the game ball in a little case in our house. ldskule:
Yeah. And Peter Finney (the columnist for the Times-Pic and author of several books on LSU football) is like my great uncle or something. And the father of my best friend when we were kids is Sean O'Keefe's cousin. I got to talk to the Chancellor about my next door neighbors once, it was all very surreal. He almost came to our crawfish boil after Jazz Fest this year, but alas...
I would pick up a supply of Cinnabons or Jay's donuts and get to the ticket office to bargain with the ladies there first thing Monday- you'll probably get a form response to your email.
