<p>5 am is when the lines open, and a classmate who saw Obama speak here before he was pregnant said she was in line near Cumberland after gettng there what she thought was really early. She still got a decent seat though.</p>
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<p>Obama was pregnant?</p>
<p>hahaha, give Gina a break. Maybe she’s been up too late studying!!! D’s prof for her geology class (that she’ll miss on Thursday) told them there would be no new material covered in class, and no “quizzes” a.k.a. attendance measures; she said she was required to still hold class, but generally people wouldn’t miss anything if they didn’t show on Thursday. Ha, I’d told D to go to class today and look for Republicans there to take notes for her! Guess she won’t have to now.</p>
<p>Hmmm. Now I’ll have to go to some other political forum and see if Obama is like that South African female track star whose gender is in question…maybe his chromosomes are really XX, and he was secretly pregnant before he ran for president :D</p>
<p>Well, D was debating about going on thursday, but her Daddy is in WA DC and invited her to meet him for lunch before heading back to L.A. , so she picked Dad over Obama ;)</p>
<p>Holy cow…Cumberland? All I keep thinking about is I am sure Duke students would have no problem doing this, but UMD students are spoiled.</p>
<p>In case you don’t get that comparison, it is because they have a smaller stadium than Comcast, so kids tent outside to get tickets for the big BBall games. Same is true for NCST. DS went last yr to visit a friend at NCST when UMD was playing there, he said I need to come home and get a sleeping bag…I thought nothing about it, until he said I need the ones we had in AK. Why? Because we have to sleep outside Friday night to get tickets :eek: It landed up raining that night, so they decided they didn’t really need to go the game 
! Again, why I say UMD students are spoiled :p</p>
<p>Just wondering why UMD did not do a lottery system via their web system? They had enough time to get the kids to sign up, and then they could have the kids that won the tickets print them up like their football tickets. This way kids would probably line up later because they know they are guaranteed a seat, plus I am sure they are going to now have security watching the lines earlier since there is no guarantee that the kids will get in, having 10K kids in line for hours is not an ideal situation, JMO</p>
<p>Any ideas why they didn’t go that route?</p>
<p>My guess would be a lack of time to load the event into the system and notify everyone about the details. They really only had the weekend to work all this out. Or maybe they just didn’t think of it.</p>
<p>Also, since the event is open to the general public, not just students, someone would have had to decide how many tickets to allocate to the students, which would also take time they didn’t have. Then there would be the issue of no-shows due to students who might decide that morning that sleeping in is preferable to security hassles and a speech.</p>
<p>I didn’t even think about the fact that it is open to the public. I wonder where they are going to park all of those cars, it’s bad enough on home football games when the campus is empty, but now add in a school day…OUCH!</p>
<p>With all indications being that professors aren’t going to do much that day, I wouldn’t be surprised if the extra rally traffic isn’t significantly offset by commuter students staying home.</p>
<p>Just talked to DS, as a govt and politic major I thought his profs would cancel their classes. They didn’t, thus, I am not so sure that you are right. He of course is bumming since his Thursdays are the worst (6 am -ROTC to 6 pm) only a break between 12-1. He was hoping his 9, 10, and 11 class would have been cancelled so he would be able to go back to the dorm for a nap.</p>
<p>FWIW, D says just about everyone she knows is planning to skip class and try to get into the rally.</p>
<p>She also says the band’s guest tickets may not materialize after all.</p>
<p>Heck, if I was 18 I would skip class too! Let’s see…Obama or class…class or Obama :D:D:D:D</p>
<p>Sorry to hear that the tickets will not materialize, does that mean you won’t go since it is open to the public?</p>
<p>The tickets may still happen, but I doubt it. I’m not sure what the real story is, but my guess is that at the time the guest tickets for band members were first planned, someone was assuming there would be tickets required for entry. When they decided to make it first-come first-served, there would then have been no tickets to give.</p>
<p>I’d still like to go, but I’m not sure my old legs are up to waiting in line for hours. Maybe I’ll go by after 9 am and see if it looks possible to get in.</p>
<p>Maybe Terp80 secretly hopes to go wait outside from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. with a bunch of college students!!!</p>
<p>crossposted: take a lawn chair and enjoy the ambiance!!!</p>
<p>Astros right take a lawn chair and report back to us the hilarity of the kids waiting in line. If I lived 20 minutes away, I would go just for the comedy…girls putting on make up, guys checking out the girls. I bet you could even pay the kids to run to the dining halls to bring you coffee.</p>
<p>Now that would be why I would go…just to chuckle and say oh to be young again!</p>
<p>ooooh. maybe it’s a moneymaking scheme for littleAstro. Maybe they can sell coffee, drinks, and donuts along the line!!!</p>
<p>If my daughter wasn’t already going be inside the building, I might suggest this as a way to use up the $140 or so in dining points that she still needs to spend by the Friday focus date.</p>
<p>Great idea! Whole cakes, pies, cookies…!!!</p>
<p>Astro, I bet DD will re-think it now…she can get her roomie to stand in line as she runs and they could split the diff…if both have the same amt as Terps DD, they could make big time money…$1.00 for coffee on the plan, charge 1.50. Terps DD if she wasn’t playing could walk away with a whole new wardrobe that she bought at Hollisters on her own dime…kind of! :D</p>
<p>OOH better yet, it would make a great term paper for ECON! :)</p>
<p>Tickets came through after all and we have one in hand. My wife is planning to use it so I’m still not sure if I’ll go. Band reports at 7 AM, ticket holders by 9.</p>