This past Thursday afternoon, many students' phones vibrated with email notifications. Most, if not all, quickly activated their device and opened the email that read "UNC Student Tickets."
Knowing the email would possibly reveal a ticket to the most coveted game for UNC students, they opened the email, which made them slightly depressed or extremely jovial.
People posted their somewhat-immediate reactions to Twitter:
The homie at Chick fil a hooked me up with 13 nuggets in an 8 piece box and I got dook tickets! #praisehim 🙏 🙌
— Mo Abushouk (@momoney919) February 6, 2014
Woo! Duke ticket! My senior year has been made official!
— Brian Hill (@BrianHill2011) February 6, 2014
I asked people I knew about the tickets and many of them received a ticket.
"YES!!! Phase 3. You??," a student said.
Due to knowledge I presented to the student, the elation the person quoted above felt evaporated within hours. Most students received an email weeks ago explaining a process each student must undergo in order to make sure "Senior status" is given this year or saved for another year.
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The anonymous person did not receive this email, and they had enough hours to be considered a Senior by the Online Student Lottery system. They had received their ticket because they were considered a Senior.The student emailed the ticket center and was told to return their ticket in order to receive "Senior status" for next year. They complied.
The student will most likely be allotted a ticket next year, but the feeling of losing a ticket to the biggest basketball game UNC plays is depressing.
"Returning my Duke ticket felt like the most un-UNC thing to do," the student said.
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