Football Tickets
Football is pretty big at my school so students are always scrounging to get tickets to the games. I have seen fliers around campus for a single, big-game, ticket on sale for around 60% more that the actual cost or an entire season of home games for more than 25% over season package cost. I know that some people care a lot for football, but what student can pay that much? I guess some parents are giving their children money to buy the tickets because it is important to them that their child attends the games, but those sure are generous parents who would pay that kind of money just so their child could attend a recreational event. But for each student that is forking out huge sums of money to attend a game, there is another who is making a killing. From the profits of selling one ticket, a student scalper could make back enough to pay for the entire season package. By selling an entire season, he or she could cover the costs of all of his or her books for the semester, and could potentially have a bit of spending money left over. While I hate to see a student who will take advantage of another like that, I also understand the business of it. Students always need money, and this is an easy way to make it, though it could be seen as ethically unsound.

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