We are writing on behalf of all seniors who obtained wristbands yet were unjustly turned away from the Duke vs. Miami game Sunday night.
Seniors were told in an e-mail sent Friday that if we showed up to Krzyzewskiville between the hours of 10 p.m. and midnight that we could get a wristband for the game.
While waiting in line for the wristbands, a chaotic mob scene broke out due to the lack of organization or any attempt of leadership by the designated line monitors.
The seniors at the front of this unorganized event offered the suggestion to create two lines instead of one in order to expedite the process. Again, the line monitors failed to keep any sort of order and mass hysteria ensued in the second line.
Disturbed by this frustrating scene, at least we were able to leave K-ville knowing that our wristbands held us a spot in Cameron on Sunday night for our very last Duke men's basketball game. How wrong we were.
When we arrived at K-ville at 4:30 p.m., we were rudely turned away by line monitors who were again failing to communicate properly with those waiting. One monitor snidely said, "If you could listen to directions then you would have known you were supposed to be here at 3:30. Even the website said that."
She admittedly was not at the event Saturday night when absolutely no directions were given to seniors.
As seniors who never tented, we did not know we had to check a website. If anything, we assumed all the needed details of the event would be included in the senior e-mail.
Saturday night, there were a set number of wristbands that were given to seniors in order to fill Cameron. Why did they then put the seniors who had wristbands at the end of the line of people waiting without wristbands on Sunday? What was the point of us waiting Saturday night if we were just put in the back of the second line Sunday, destined to be turned away?
Fundamentally, we felt that the line monitors did not want us in the game.
For whatever reason, they did not respect us or our wristbands. They were working against us, not for us, by letting in those students at 4 p.m. who did not have wristbands.
It was our Senior Night. We, as seniors, earned this night to have fun and enjoy ourselves and support all of the senior basketball players.
But instead, here we are, writing a letter to the editor of The Chronicle in hopes that seniors in the future will be able to experience what was taken from us by the miscommunication, terrible organization and misguided intentions of the line monitors.
Rebecca Pomeroy
Trinity '06
Corbin Dunlap
Trinity '06
Barbara Hauptfuhrer
Trinity '06
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