OT- Students only allowed 3 guests to their graduation. However...

[mildone]

3 tickets is more than enough, you don't need every person you've ever met to be there for you

We're not complaining about having just three. It is what it is. But I think saying three is more than enough is a pretty arbitrary position to take.

Moms and dads certainly want to go and ought to be there. And often grandparents like to go. For instance, we have a grandparent flying in from Australia that was planning on attending. We have another way to get him in, but not everybody does.

 

[RC1978]

Nice try.

I have no idea how to take "nice try".

I posted the actual announcement from Rutgers that states each student gets 4 tickets including the graduate. So that is 4 times 12,000.

Are you being a dick because you are wrong or I am not getting your sarcasm.

 

[RU4Real]

I have no idea how to take "nice try".

I posted the actual announcement from Rutgers that states each student gets 4 tickets including the graduate. So that is 4 times 12,000.

Are you being a dick because you are wrong or I am not getting your sarcasm.

No, I'm being a dick because the conversation is, and has always been, about guest tickets. You decided to include the graduates in the math because you were fundamentally wrong - the number of guest tickets has been decreased from 4 to 3, that's what the announcement is all about. The graduates don't need "tickets", per se. They're graduating. They're gonna be there, regardless.

Don't derail the conversation for the benefit of your ego. Also, you're going back on "Ignore".

 

[MADHAT1]

I have no idea how to take "nice try".

I posted the actual announcement from Rutgers that states each student gets 4 tickets including the graduate. So that is 4 times 12,000.

Are you being a dick because you are wrong or I am not getting your sarcasm.

Would have been better to have provided a link to that announcement for everyone to check out .
But you did give the right info and I'll provide a link so anyone not sure about the info you gave can check it out and see exactly what the announcement ( you posted) said .
Frequently Asked Questions about Commencement | University Commencement
(Do I need tickets for Rutgers University Commencement or convocations?
How many people may I invite?)
>Please be aware that Rutgers will be providing viewing sites at other venues-the College Avenue, Livingston, and Busch student centers, for example for additional guests. See the campus overview map (PDF) for student center locations.<
http://commencement.rutgers.edu/faq

 

[e5fdny]

Way back when I was part of the FDNY detail for a Marine One landing at South Street heliport landing during Clinton's 2nd term.

Loooong day. But very cool to see up close and personal all that is involved with it.

But that's not why. LOL

Is the elevator fixed? Lol

If you mean the one on the dock in the waiting area I do not know. Wasn't allowed near there after a certain point.

If you mean the one at Rutgers Stadium...NO. :(

 

[redlight123]

Got my friends kids tickets. They cannot goad the need to get back to their home country. Scalping heaven with 4 tix

 

[koleszar]

If you mean the one on the dock in the waiting area I do not know. Wasn't allowed near there after a certain point.

If you mean the one at Rutgers Stadium...NO. :(

Damn Subsidy!:angry:

 

[RC1978]

Got my friends kids tickets. They cannot goad the need to get back to their home country. Scalping heaven with 4 tix

Don't think you will be able to scalp. Each ticket will have a name associated and from the announcement "The tickets will be barcoded and will not be transferrable". Every ticket will be scanned and a name will be associated with it and the ticket holder will have to show an ID.

It would work if the person letting you have their tickets registered the tickets in the names that you requested but that would not help scalping.

I can figure out that the secret service will be checking every name registered.

 

[NotInRHouse]

If the choice was between N/C students and families of NB students, NB students should get the ticket. Not unlimited.

The school strains to give N and C students and then they complain they have no chalk.

Did Dearborn and Flint students get tickets when the President came to Ann Arbor?

 

[e5fdny]

Damn Subsidy!:angry:

Otis...the official elevator of Rutgers Football.

 

[RC1978]

No, I'm being a dick because the conversation is, and has always been, about guest tickets. You decided to include the graduates in the math because you were fundamentally wrong - the number of guest tickets has been decreased from 4 to 3, that's what the announcement is all about. The graduates don't need "tickets", per se. They're graduating. They're gonna be there, regardless.

Don't derail the conversation for the benefit of your ego. Also, you're going back on "Ignore".

One last time and I am honored to be on your ignored list, you might be my first. My ego?

The first post was asking this "52,000 people are expected to attend. 12,000 students times three is 36,000. Figure another 1000 people for administrating. Who are the extra 15,000 people who are going?" So he was correct about the 52,000. The total amount of people being allowed into the stadium including the graduates. His math was 3 times 12,000 = 36,000 and he asked where all the extra seats were going.

I posted that each graduate is getting 4 tickets, one for themselves and 3 for guests. So that total is 48,000. That is all simple math. Somehow you took it to a whole other level.

 

[RUfromNJ]

Thought I'd be fine getting in with both my brother and my gf's sister graduating. Now I'm not so sure...

 

[JoeRU0304]

Don't think you will be able to scalp. Each ticket will have a name associated and from the announcement "The tickets will be barcoded and will not be transferrable". Every ticket will be scanned and a name will be associated with it and the ticket holder will have to show an ID.

It would work if the person letting you have their tickets registered the tickets in the names that you requested but that would not help scalping.

I can figure out that the secret service will be checking every name registered.

Good answer but that poster is likely trolling.


Joe P.

 

[kupuna133]

Boohoo so the students in New Brunswick get one less guest ticket.

It's not that the NB students are getting one less ticket. It is that Newark and Camden are separate Universities. Would this have been reciprocated if this was happening in Newark or Camden? I can answer that for you no.

 

[LadyRU09]

I signed up to volunteer before Obama was confirmed to be there. (I also volunteered in 2014)

The information meeting I have next week should be interesting.

 

[StyleKnight]

Could the stage be put on the recruiting lounge? And open up the seats below?

 

[mildone]

Could the stage be put on the recruiting lounge? And open up the seats below?

No can do. I've reserved that entire area for my hookers and blow themed graduation party.

 

[StyleKnight]

No can do. I've reserved that entire area for my hookers and blow themed graduation party.

Aint no party like a C-town party.

 

[vkj91]

It's not that the NB students are getting one less ticket. It is that Newark and Camden are separate Universities. Would this have been reciprocated if this was happening in Newark or Camden? I can answer that for you no.

Time for NB students to pay their fair share. I mean it's not like they earned their degree. Somebody had to build the classrooms and print the books.

 

[vkj91]

Otis...the official elevator of Rutgers Football.

Fun fact, I was born in the hospital elevator and my dad lobbied to name me Otis. Mom won....

 

[S_Janowski]

It's not that the NB students are getting one less ticket. It is that Newark and Camden are separate Universities. Would this have been reciprocated if this was happening in Newark or Camden? I can answer that for you no.

I can also answer something for you:

Newark and Camden are regional campuses of Rutgers University. The same Rutgers Univeristy that New Brunswick is a part of.

I think it's time to go back to the drawing board.

 

[S_Janowski]

If the choice was between N/C students and families of NB students, NB students should get the ticket. Not unlimited.

The school strains to give N and C students and then they complain they have no chalk.

Did Dearborn and Flint students get tickets when the President came to Ann Arbor?

Yea because last time I checked New Brunswick students and faculty NEVER complain.

Tons of New Brunswick students normally don't show to commencement. Also Newark and Camden students are always invited to the ceremony and can bring guests and some do attend believe it or not. Just because Obama is in town doesn't mean we need to change the norm so students can bring 3 guests instead on 4.

I see you're back on your high horse again.

Also for someone who is such an ardent supporter of all things and people being equal you should support this decision.

 

[BigRnj]

Fun fact, I was born in the hospital elevator and my dad lobbied to name me Otis. Mom won....

... and she named you Schlinder?

 

[AshSaturday]

It's a University special event. Thus priority points should have been used. Every blue moon when there is a tippy top event one either has to be on staff or donate $100,000. Else one is just as well off taking that donation and banking the funds to py for that rare event (ie. women's hoops final 4)

 

[AreYouNUTS]

I went to my nephews graduation at the Big House when Obama was speaker and pretty sure it was only student plus 4 and they have a much larger stadium

Rutgers students would find a way to whine if there were 10 tickets available per graduate.

 

[RC1991]

Ridiculous that Newark and Camden are getting tix to the New Brunswick graduation ceremony. They are separate degree granting institutions...send them some extra chalk.

 

[daneman100]

I do not even remember the garbage speaker we had. These kids are getting a chance to see a sitting president talk, and they are still complaining?

 

[ruhudsonfan]

If the choice was between N/C students and families of NB students, NB students should get the ticket. Not unlimited.

The school strains to give N and C students and then they complain they have no chalk.

Did Dearborn and Flint students get tickets when the President came to Ann Arbor?

When will you come to the simple conclusion that Rutgers is not, nor has it ever been, run like any other state university system?

You might as well run headlong into an oncoming train. It will hurt less than trying to make something so, that clearly isn't...

 

[ruhudsonfan]

Fun fact, I was born in the hospital elevator and my dad lobbied to name me Otis. Mom won....

Knowing your last name, Otis would have been f@cking amazing...

 

[miker183]

Negative ! Each graduate will get 4 tickets 3 for guests one for themselves . 4 tickets times 12,000 students = 48,000.

IMPORTANT COMMENCEMENT UPDATE: All Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences graduates who have already registered for the May 15 commencement ceremony will receive one ticket for themselves plus three guest tickets and one parking pass. The tickets will be barcoded and will not be transferrable. Ticket holders will be required to have photo identification, and all guests must have a ticket regardless of age. While the limit to three guests at the stadium is a change from past practice, it ensures that every graduating student from Rutgers University–New Brunswick and from Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences is accommodated. Those graduates who have already registered for their parking pass will be notified when the ticket registration system is open.

Please be aware that Rutgers will be providing viewing sites at other venues—the College Avenue, Livingston, and Busch Student Centers, for example—for additional guests.

Graduates and undergraduates from Rutgers University-Newark and Rutgers University-Camden are being invited to attend the May 15 ceremony. The university is chartering special NJ Transit trains to bring graduates from both locations.

Rutgers University-Newark and Rutgers University-Camden students will continue to graduate with their classmates at those locations.

If you have not already made arrangements for your regalia, please do so immediately. All graduates must wear regalia to be on the field during Commencement.

Further details about the event will be available the week of May 9.

I don't have a horse in this race, BUT it is ridiculous to consider the honorees as ticketed guests. LOL. They've EARNED their invite.
If this were me, I wouldn't walk. That would be my choice.

 

[Scarlet Pride]

I don't have a horse in this race, BUT it is ridiculous to consider the honorees as ticketed guests. LOL. They've EARNED their invite.
If this were me, I wouldn't walk. That would be my choice.

Right because them needing a ticket probably has nothing to do with security procedures

 

[RUtix4me]

Right because them needing a ticket probably has nothing to do with security procedures

 

[S_Janowski]

Ridiculous that Newark and Camden are getting tix to the New Brunswick graduation ceremony. They are separate degree granting institutions...send them some extra chalk.

How about the kids graduating from Rutgers business school Newark and New Brunswick....

 

[redlight123]

Why such hate for our students in Newark and Camden. They are getting RU degrees too. They are not 2nd class and they paid tuition too. Looks sad for NJ.

 

[CERU00]

This made the news here in Delaware lol... People threatening not to give to the school after graduation. RU certainly seems to have more than its fair share of morons.

 

[NJBorn]

Students are only allowed 3 guests to their graduation. However, 52,000 people are expected to attend. 12,000 students times three is 36,000. Figure another 1000 people for administrating. Who are the extra 15,000 people who are going?

I actually got a fund raising letter yesterday. I just wrote "Ask Obama for my annual contribution" and sent it back. Then I realized I didnt give last year for the Condelezza Rice issue. They need to time there fund raising letters better.

 

[NJBorn]

This made the news here in Delaware lol... People threatening not to give to the school after graduation. RU certainly seems to have more than its fair share of morons.

They are not morons, you express your displeasure through your wallet, thats the only thing that works. I have a client that withheld a $1m gift to Georgetown over a similar issue and the priests still call him years later to kiss his ass. They basically had the money spent.

 

[RC1978]

Ridiculous that Newark and Camden are getting tix to the New Brunswick graduation ceremony. They are separate degree granting institutions...send them some extra chalk.

I guess you didn't read all the posts.

Once again, ever since RU went to a full University commencement at the Stadium, Newark and Camden students were always invited and actually walk in the procession. The Medical Sciences school is also a separate degree granting institution but they have been added as of last year.

In the big picture this is a one in a 250 year event. IMO a great one. My son is getting his Masters and we had to rearrange who is coming. Will I stop donating because some family members cannot come, no. Next year's commencement will go back to normal and you can bring anyone you want and we will not have this thread for another 250 years.

 

[Knightmoves]

Should be a good day for Sodexo. Can we get a thread about stadium concessions on graduation day ?

Also there should be an active secondary market or tickets for this event. Scalpers take note.

 

[Local Shill]

Do people think Barry is actually going to hand them their diploma? He's going to go on a 15-minute (or however long) screed and be whisked away. It's cool that he's going to be there but commencement is by and large, long and tedious.