Krzyzewskiville's new mayor wants to make life a little easier for his constituents.
Head Line Monitor Greg Skidmore released the 2001-2002 policy for the undergraduate tent city Monday. Although Skidmore has kept most of last year's popular policy intact, he has implemented several major changes.
Most notably, Skidmore will distribute wristbands for the walk-up line at the two tenting games--the University of Maryland Jan. 17 and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill March 3. Skidmore said he would add the Jan. 27 game against the University of Virginia if the team does well.
"There was a lot of confusion at [last season's] Carolina game as to who was and was not in the walk-up line, and a lot of people didn't get in," said Skidmore, a senior and three-year tenter.
This season, wristbands will be handed out at a random, unannounced time between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Jan. 17 and between noon March 2 and 8 a.m. March 3. Each individual in the walk-up line will receive a color-coded bracelet and will also have the option to give the line monitors the name of one other person that temporarily left the line. Those on the absentee list can pick up their bracelets two hours after the initial distribution.
The walk-up line change is just one of several initiatives that allows for more moderate fans to get into the two most important home games of the Blue Devils' championship-defending season.
Only 30 tents will be allowed to register during the Blue, or early tenting, period--down from 50 last season. Skidmore justified the decreased by noting that for the 2001 Carolina game, tenters after the first 30 began to taper off until right before White registration.
Since the Maryland game falls so shortly after the conclusion of winter break, Blue registration will begin before the start of second semester Jan. 8.
Blue registration for the Carolina game will begin as soon as 10 tents set up.
White registration for the Maryland game will take place at 5 p.m. Jan. 9 and at 8 a.m. Feb. 21 for the Carolina game.
Just as last season, Skidmore and other line monitors will register the 70 white tents at a site disclosed on the Duke Student Government website. Skidmore said that, in response to complaints, DSG added servers to their site so that heavy traffic will not delay the release of the location.
The policy requires the same number of tenters for daily, nightly and personal checks, but sets a different time period Friday and Saturday nights when eight out of 12 tenters must be in the tent. This year, they must remain in the tent between 2 and 10 a.m. During the rest of the week, tent checks will occur between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.
Procedures for the non-tenting games will remain the same as last year as well, with early season and weekend games classified as walk-up games and mid-week games requiring wristbands. For senior day, Skidmore will reserve 1,000 wristbands for seniors Feb. 7, when Duke takes on Florida State University.
"I think it is a very solid policy," said DSG Vice President of Facilities and Athletics Matt Slovik. "Norm Bradley's policy last year worked out very well and this builds upon it. I think the walk-up line policy has the potential to keep true to the ideas of a walk-up line while maintaining order."
The new policy will be reviewed at DSG's legislative meeting Wednesday night and will be voted upon at the body's Oct. 3 meeting.
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