Monday, June 3, 1996
First 500 applicants guaranteed sports packages for ’96-’97In an
effort to quell student displeasure over the availability of season
ticket sports packages, the UCLA athletic department has revamped
its selection process for the 1996-97 academic year.
Instead of distributing all ticket packages in a random lottery,
the department will guarantee packages to the first 500 students
who return a completed application, along with a payment of $119,
to the Central Ticket Office.
CTO will make applications available when its windows open this
morning.
Once the first 500 packages have been doled out, the remaining
1,500 tickets will be distributed through the traditional random
lottery, to be held in the first week of August. All returning
students and incoming freshmen will be mailed an application for
the random lottery in early July.
Because it has increased the number of student sports packages,
the athletic department does not anticipate the availability of
individual game tickets for men’s basketball games next year. If
individual game tickets are available, they will go on sale only on
the night of the event, at Pauley Pavilion.
Football tickets will be sold on an individual game basis at the
Central Ticket Office and at the Rose Bowl.
The $119 sports package  the only version offered this
year  includes admission to all home football games,
including a pre-paid priority number for the UCLA-USC game, as well
as all men’s basketball home games and every other regularly
scheduled home athletic event for the entire 1996-97 academic
year.
It does not, however, include any NCAA championship events,
tournaments or invitationals.
The Bruins’ home football schedule consists of games against
Northeastern Louisiana, Arizona State, Stanford, Washington State
and USC.
The basketball team will host Cal State Northridge, Kansas,
Ohio, Jackson State, Morgan State, Duke, the nine other schools in
the Pacific 10 Conference, and four exhibition events.
Please note that UCLA students gain free admission to all home
events for the 19 Olympic sports (this excludes only football and
men’s basketball) by showing a current student registration card
and UCLA ID.