Graduate students without football tickets express ambivalence over role on campus
When the Princeton football team takes the field tomorrow night under the lights for the home opener of the Ivy League season, the stadium will be packed with students, alumni and faculty.However, missing among those orange-and-black-clad fans will be many graduate students.Unlike University undergraduates, graduate students do not receive complimentary tickets to athletic events ? like tomorrow's game ? or to other social events on campus.Tickets to such events are not complimentary for graduate students because there is no comparable fee to the undergraduate student fee which provides financial support."I'm not sure how many [graduate students] are affected by this," said Matt Fouse GS, president of the Graduate Student Government, "but I think they would like to be involved."Though some graduate students will make their way between the prowling tigers guarding Princeton Stadium because the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni will give away free tickets at its annual tailgating party, Fouse said he sees this as part of a bigger problem."Little things [like free tickets] add up," Fouse said.Other graduate students do not hold this view."Graduate students are a community of very interesting people who do not have a lot time on our hands," said Elliot Ratzman, a graduate student in the religion department.