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Post by OceanStateBonnie on Nov 20, 2009 9:00:13 GMT -5
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lazer
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Post by lazer on Nov 20, 2009 10:54:24 GMT -5
Being a part of this debacle - the pre pep rally I mean - I can tell you this story doesn't display the ineptitude enough.
The turnout was tremendous, yes, and probably much greater than organizers thought it would. That's the first issue. I got there around 9:30 and the line was already past the Richter. Starting at the entrance facing the Richter and Rob, the line was like 5-8 wide, and by the time it got past the Richter it was about 2-3 wide. Then, at 9:45 for some inexplicit reason students just started storming the doors. This resulted in a mass of humanity crammed in the area between the RC doors and the beginning of the Richter parking lot. Still the doors didn't open.
The quote from Scannell about how they told students the doors wouldn't open until 10 is the complete opposite of truth. They told everyone, and promoted it as such, that the pep rally was at 10. That means the pep rally is at 10!!! Not that the doors are opening at 10 and the pep rally is starting at 10:15 ... which is exactly what happened. Here's the exact Facebook wall post from the athletic department:
PEP RALLY TONIGHT at 10 p.m. Come meet your basketball teams! First 1,000 students get a Wolfpack T-Shirt!
That says nothing about the doors opening at 10, does it? People were expecting a pep rally at 10, and when they were still standing in a mass at 9:58 you could see why they were upset. And then this doosy from Scannell as well, "It was their choice to line up at 9 p.m." Well when you tell us that there's only 1,000 shirts, of course people are going to get there early. This is a huge event, plan like it.
Next comes the most inept idea of the night. Lance Brennan, after having to tell multiple people to stop banging on the doors, finally started to let students into the RC ... starting with the Small sizes first. Smalls were supposed to go through the far left door, Medium middle door, and so on. Whoever thought that the first person in through the Small door wouldn't just start opening up all the other doors needs a new job. That's exactly what happened, and people starting pushing and shoving and throwing other people out of the way to get in. Someone lost their phone, girls complained about getting run over, doors were nearly broken ... it was a disaster.
Next, now that everyone is in the lobby by the swimming pool entrance all together, there's no room for anyone to move once they receive their one inch by one inch piece of paper with their size on it. People had to go all the way back around to other entrances of the RC and have their friends open the locked doors for them so that they could get in. For those that didn't want to go that extra mile, they just cut behind all the tables or crawled underneath the tables where people were handing out the tickets.
Why they couldn't just plan this thing when practices didn't interfere is beyond me.
Or else actually tell the students that the doors open at 10, not that the pep rally is at 10. Those are two completely different things. That means that a Bills game that is at 1 p.m. means that the doors to the Ralph open at 1.
Or, have four different areas where the tickets are handed out for four different sizes. That's what you did for the actual distributing of the T-shirts, why not duplicate it for the ticket distribution.
Or, better yet, just let people into the RC as they get there, give them their ticket and have them go sit down. That way the actual first 1,000 people get a shirt, not the first 1,000 who are able to muscle and out-size smaller girls.
The pep rally itself was fine, but the events leading up to it were a complete and utter catastrophe.
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