Student Season Tickets

By showing their student identification card ("Owl Card"), students at Florida Atlantic University receive free admission into all athletic events, including home football games. But this year, the Athletic Department went one step further - mailing season tickets to every students home.

I was one of 11 students that are now sleepless since we woke up on Friday morning to go to class, work or meetings. All night Friday night, Saturday night and all day Sunday, students were putting address labels on envelopes and stuffing season tickets into the envelopes. The tickets are set to be put in the mail on Tuesday morning.

"Hopefully students that weren't motivated to attend football games before will be more motivated to attend the games now," said Vinny Evans, a freshman who was one of the 11 stuffing the envelopes. "I volunteered to help the athletic department with this task because I want to watch the football program grow. If that means stuffing envelopes, then I'll be stuffing."

The first home football game for FAU is Thursday at 7 p.m. at Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale. They will be playing Southern Utah, a team that competes in division I-AA, a division below that of the Owls.