Cyclone Alley has gotten some bad press lately, most recently through SI as a direct result of everyone's favorite campus newspaper, the ISU Daily. Suffice it to say that the students at Iowa State basketball games have around 2,500 seats, of which over 900 have sat empty for every game yet this season. The athletic department may be right to threaten to sell them to alumni instead, and Jamie Pollard has decided to throw the issue out as red meat for students to devour. Already the original article has spawned a number of "don't threaten the students" letters to the editor (and who hasn't written an angry letter to the editor of the ISU Daily? Ok, maybe I have written over my fair share.)
The gist of the situation is whether or not the students should be limited to only sitting at each end of the court below the balcony, and whether or not our little student section is about to become exclusive (with less than 10% of the student population able to buy tickets.) It looks like the students need to start showing up...
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