Cliffies Irked by Ticket Rules As Yale Game Called a Sell-Out

The 1970 Harvard-Yale game means different things to many people, but to the Radcliffe segment of the Harvard community it means the continuation of "an unfair and discriminating act on the part of the Harvard Athletic Department," according to one of many disgruntled Harvard women.

Most of the displeasure stems from the fact that Harvard men may get free tickets to the Yale game by simply filing an application, while Cliffies are given no priority and must buy the $7 tickets along with the public.

Coupon Books

The issue also centers around the distribution of coupon ticket books to undergraduates at registration. For Harvard men the books are free and the coupons may be exchanged for one free seat at all home football games, with the option to buy an adjoining ticket. Coupons in the book also admit men to all other intercollegiate athletic contests free.

Cliffies must pay $2 at registration for their coupon books which do not include coupons for the Dartmouth, Princeton, and Yale games. Admittance to hockey games is also not included.

"It is just completely male chauvanist to think that Radcliffe girls would not be interested in going to a sports event," argued Marion C. Childs '73.

'No Facilities'

"We don't have the facilities to handle the boys much less the girls," said Harvard Ticket Manager Gordon M. Page. However, Page did feel that any undergraduate who wanted to go to the game this Saturday could have gotten tickets.

"We put 500 on sale at 9 Monday morning and we had tickets through most of the day," Page said. Later in the week he went to New Haven and picked up an additional 750 tickets. "Normally Yale turns back a few but usually not this many. I told them we were completely out," he added.

As late as yesterday afternoon, due to returns from the football team, the ticket office was still selling seats. Trying to explain the situation, Page said, "You can be completely sold out up to a few minutes before you close and you can still end up with a handful. But these are things you can never predict."

Coed Confusion

Page said that changes in University policy this year regarding housing and registration in the dorms had caused his office some problems.

"One girl was furious. She had an undergraduate ticket book and wanted to buy a ticket to the Yale game. Our man in the window said, 'but it's for Harvard undergraduates.' She countered, 'but I am a Harvard undergraduate.' He questioned, 'Where did you get it?' She responded. 'At registration,' He said, 'But you live at Radcliffe.' 'No, Adams House,' she answered. We've never had this problem before," mused Page. She was refused the ticket.

Most of the women at Radcliffe feel very strongly about this issue and "in the past week it has been a major topic at the dinner table," said a Radcliffe junior. Perhaps, the worst problem, according to another Cliffie, is that this policy "fosters the idea that women have to rely on men. It puts the girls in the position of having to go as dates or not at all."