SC improves stance on student tickets

Apologies if this has been covered already and I missed it, but I was struck that the SC Alumni magazine which arrived at my house yesterday had an announcement front and center about rectifying the nonsenses over limiting student tickets and poor crowd control earlier in the season -- for which the university had been rightly criticized here and elsewhere...

Anyway, the press release from the VP of Student Affairs includes the following highlights:

Further on, the mea culpa:

Quite right too. The only thing that puzzled me was this:

I seem to remember that back in the days of yore when the La Brea Tar Pits was the after-hours snack bar, we traded blocks of coupons for seats by virtue of sending the aerospace engineers out to hit the ticket office early... how long has it been general admission? How old am I?

The text of the press release in its entirety can be found here.