As Student Government Council Vice President Emilio Collyer stepped onto campus Sept. 7, he was “Daydreamin’” of picking up tickets, not only for him, but five peers as well. Little did he know, the Homecoming Council changed the distribution schedule for the homecoming concert from originally being Wednesdays from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., to Thursdays from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Collyer was made aware of this distribution change, not through Student Government related emails or through updates sent out by the Homecoming Council, but by overhearing a student media interview with Pablo Haspel SGC-BBC Speaker of the Senate as he had one foot out the door to grab his concert tickets.
Upon hearing this information, Collyer pulled a 180 and stomped back into his office in a fit of rage, and refused to comment on the situation.
During the first week of the semester, students were faced with a similar situation when the Homecoming Council failed to communicate the homecoming concert ticket distribution dates with the University community.
According to Haspel, the reason why homecoming is in disarray is in part to the homecoming council not being finalized until the first week of the current semester.
“The whole homecoming situation was pretty rushed. Applications for the homecoming council positions were still being accepted through the first week of the semester and weren’t finalized until the end of the first week of classes.”
Both Ned Chandler, the Homecoming Council’s BBC marketing representative, and Wolfgang Acevedo, Campus Life graduate assistant, were approached for comments on the Homecoming Council’s failure to disseminate the distribution dates to the University community, they refused.
According to Jose Toscano, assistant director of Campus Life, emphasis has been made to the Homecoming Council on taking advantage of social media for marketing homecoming events.
“We advise the council to use the Homecoming website, Facebook and Twitter to send out information.” said Toscano. “We had technical issues on the Facebook widget on the HC site but [the Twitter widget above it] works fine.
“We’re pushing people to go to our website for all updates regarding tickets. We’re also telling them to go there for the option of floor tickets,” added Toscano.
As of Sept. 7, the University’s homecoming website has been updated to reflect the changes in ticketing distribution, but no mention is made is to the policies involved with the distribution of tickets, such as how many tickets an individual student can pick up from peers if he presents their Panther Cards, or the Homecoming council’s policy in terms of faculty and staff tickets.
Although a single sign has been posted the Modest Maidique Campus’s Campus Life office, nothing has been posted at BBC as of Sept. 7.
Furthermore, the Homecoming Council tweeted the distribution update on Sept. 1, but has not updated their Facebook page since May 25, both of which have 281 and 1,851 followers respectively.
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