ONE FOR THE PRICE OF (ALMOST) TWO

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Tickets have gone up again!!! Aside from any consideration of the caliber of the games we will witness, we would like to make a few salient points concerning the raised prices.

Two years ago, none of us will forget, the tuition was raised $200.00 with the assurance that the H.A.A. yearly deficit would be a principal beneficiary. The student, in return, would receive free admission to athletic competitions, including all home football games. We would suggest a ruse has been perpetrated on the voiceless student: his date's ticket last year was expensive, and this year is outrageous. All this, despite the total abolition of the Federal 20% amusement tax, which means that on a $3.60 ticket, this year the H.A.A. nets nearly 17% more per ticket. Now, not satisfied with a virtual 17% net increase, the H.A.A. has raised the same ticket to $4.00, thereby being charitable to themselves to the extent of $1.00 more per ticket, or a 25% increase.

We are not suggesting that it is our place to determine the H.A.A. budget, yet we do set forth the proposition that the H.A.A. is imposing severe limits on our budgets. Our food prices might go up and we have no recourse, our beds may not be made and we have no recourse, and again when the H.A.A. levies a tariff on us via our dates, we have virtually no recourse. There only remains the cruel choice of going dateless or rooting Harvard football in Sunday post mortems

Might we suggest the H.A.A. review its increased price schedule with more consideration of the student body it services. Might we also suggest that our Student Council which did so well in easing the distribution problem for the H.A.A., now attempt to solve the purchasing problem for the student. Herbert G. Taylor '55   David J. Levinson '55