The Problem of Scalping Tickets
In the late 1970s students were caught scalping ACC tournament tickets. Blas Arroyo discusses a Student Government measure to develop an anti-scalping policy that conformed to state law.
Interview on 2012-09-20 00:00:00 -0400
Transcript
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The problem that we had and where that particular issue came from is
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that we had students arrested for scalping. The state decided to operate a sting
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around ACC tournament tickets and it had not happened-. Well, if it had happened
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before it hadn't happened in recent history. So there had been a practice
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that had developed among students of selling tickets to other-. I think even
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if you just sold to another student it violated the state law. I don't know
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that the average student-and I, being from Florida, I know before this came up
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I didn't even know there was an anti-scalping statute in North Carolina.
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So we had students that got in trouble by virtue of having run afoul of the state law,
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so really that policy was entirely motivated by desire from an educational standpoint
that everybody knew that we had a policy then that fit with the state,
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but then it would get publicized and then hopefully we would not have-.
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And I knew one of the guys well [Laughs] that got caught in this thing,
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It's a criminal violation, an attorney has to get involved,
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and it was a mess for them, and it was something that I think
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by most accounts was a totally innocent thing.
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