Wednesday was a good day for Cameron Crazies.
Before the sun even rose, tickets went on sale for the Oct. 27 Blue and White game. By midday, high school senior Shavlik Randolph had officially committed to Duke, rounding out one of the best recruiting classes in college basketball history. And early Wednesday night, Duke Student Government approved this season's tenting policy for Krzyzewskiville.
Like the first two events of the day, the passage of the new plan has drawn enthusiastic reactions from tenters.
"I think it's a very good policy, especially the rules for the walk-up line," Jason Laderman said. The sophomore was in the walk-up line for last season's game against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Despite waiting in line for more than 30 hours, Laderman missed getting into Cameron Indoor Stadium by about 10 people.
"The whole thing was out of order," he said. "People were cutting in line because there really wasn't anyone monitoring it."
The walk-up line plan that Head Line Monitor Greg Skidmore created this year allows two students to evenly share their time in line, which will be monitored throughout the day by unannounced checks.
Laderman said it was a good idea to allow students to leave the line to go to class, but thought the 50 percent requirement was too generous.
"Students should have to be there the majority of the time," he said. "Maybe they could get a pass from line monitors to go to class."
Kathryn Klima, a senior who was in a top-10 tent last season, said she agreed with keeping most of last year's highly successful policy intact.
"I'm glad that they decided to keep it at 50 tents for Blue tenting for Carolina," Klima said.
In Skidmore's initial plan, the limit for the number of tents set up during the earlier Blue period was decreased from 50 to 30. Before Wednesday's meeting, however, Skidmore responded to student demand for more hard-core tenting spots, reinstating the 50-tent limit for the game against the UNC-CH while keeping 30 for the University of Maryland game.
Skidmore, a senior, said he intended the 30-tent maximum for the Maryland game to discourage students from coming back too early in January when the weather could create health risks.
"It sort of makes sense to only have 30 spots," said junior Christopher Traver, the captain of tent 53 last season. "That way, not many people will set up really early."
DSG President C.J. Walsh also endorsed the policy Thursday. "I'm fired up about Krzyzewskiville," he said.
"I'm glad that Greg went out and solicited student input because the tenters are happy with their mayor's rules."
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