WCU is definitely NOT a green campus

I may get in trouble for this post, but that's a chance I'm willing to take.

I attended Western's homecoming game today. I haven't been to a game in a while so I was shocked and appalled to see that they (who "they" are I don't know--the athletic gods I suppose) are now requiring everyone, including students, to have paper tickets to get into home football games. They are no longer scanning students' cat cards.

Apparently the students are to visit a website in which they'll find their student ticket that they can then print.

What?! Wait, wait. WHAT?!?!?! Ridiculous! Absolutely ridiculous! The amount of paper is ridiculous. BECAUSE since they're printing them places other than the ticket office, they're on whole sheets of paper.

Was there a recycle bin there to recycle these? Of course not. How many can we safely say were recycled by eco-conscious students??

Because I had trouble getting in (for I didn't know this ridiculous new policy had taken place) there was a woman with a little clout helping me to get in. I don't know her name, nor her position, but I did get some insight as to why this new paper ticket thing was put into place. According to her, some cat cards weren't able to be scanned for some reason and those students couldn't get into games. Two, by using this ticket system, there are now incentives for students to attend more games and a variety of sports. Apparently you can win different prizes for going to WCU games.

First, rectify the scanning problem by getting a new scanning system or something. Or by just sending those few students whose card won't scan to the "Cat Card Validation" line like I went through today.

As far as incentives to go to sports games...it's a sad sad world when a student needs an incentive to go support their school.

I don't know how Western expects to be competitive with other NC system schools when they continue to pull stunts like this.

As far as a quick fix goes: how about put out some recycle bins and encourage ticket recycling next time?