Thursday July 24, 2008
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Glamorgan shall go to the ball · Issue 868, by Corinne Rhoades
Tickets for this year’s Cardiff University Summer Ball have been sold to students from Glamorgan University in a bid to maximise funds, gair rhydd can reveal.
The Ball, which was reported to be fast-becoming the biggest solo-university ball in the UK, has been advertised to Glamorgan students since April 17, around two months after tickets went on sale at the Cardiff University Students’ Union (CUSU) Box Office.
According to a spokesperson from CUSU Entertainments Department, the organisers of the Ball, if 200 tickets are sold by Glamorgan University, which takes a £5 profit from each one, around £7,000 will be generated for the ball.
This money will be used to provide new Summer Ball attractions, such as larger tents and a full fairground attraction.
The spokesperson said: “We did it two years ago and around 32 tickets were sold. Last year, when we didn’t do it, students from Glamorgan came and bought tickets from our Box Office anyway.
“All we’ve done is formalise the agreement,” the spokesperson added.
As of last Wednesday April 30, Glamorgan students had already snapped up 132 tickets.
When the figure reaches 200, CUSU will “review” the situation.
CUSU President Jonny Cox, was quick to reassure students that Glamorgan would have no control over the event.
He said: “It’s not possible for Glamorgan to put on a ball on their own and we have the site and the capacity to do so.
“Collaborative ventures like these are exactly what we should be looking to do in the future,” he added.
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if they want to come to our ball they should pay more.
And why’s that?
Because if they did we would make 14,000 quid as opposed to 7000. And realistically considering they dont have the facilities to do their own they might be quite willing to pay the extra.
Sorry, correction. We would not make 14,000 extra. We would have 14,000 extra to put towards a better headline act maybe? Or a further 14,000 on top of the already too large fee to get someone even better.
Given the line-up I can’t imagine any Glamorgan students would be rushing to get tickets if they were much higher than ours.
Besides that, we’re all fellow students here, we shouldn’t be looking into ripping off other students for the sake of bettering our ball.
I agree with you on the fellow students part. However I can almost guarantee that a lot of other students wouldnt.