{"id":2309,"date":"2007-05-10T09:54:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T17:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/students_scalp_graduation_tickets_to_pay_down_massive_tuition_debt.html"},"modified":"2008-01-29T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T15:00:18","slug":"students_scalp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/students_scalp.html","title":{"rendered":"Students Scalp Graduation Tickets To Pay Down Massive Tuition Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not really*, but NYU and Columbia students <em>are<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2007\/05\/10\/2007-05-10_they_scalp_graduation_tickets.html\">scalping their graduation tickets for items like bicycle pumps<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Because each student gets a limited number of tickets, graduates with big families are willing to pay for extra ducats.<\/p>\n<p>And enterprising classmates who don&#8217;t need their tickets are hoping to make a quick buck on craigslist and other Web sites.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My dad just broke two ribs and they aren&#8217;t going to be able to come to the city,&#8221; said Gary Miller, 21, an NYU journalism major who was asking $100 for each ticket to today&#8217;s exercises in Washington Square Park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not too keen on sitting in the park for four hours myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As of last night, Miller had no takers, but other grads with lower prices were finding buyers.<\/p>\n<p>Alexis Caldwell thought she graduated from NYU four years ago, but she didn&#8217;t complete one course. Now that she has, she&#8217;s eligible for tickets again. She requested her allotment of two seats in the park and two in a TV viewing area so she could sell them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need a new pump for my bicycle,&#8221; she said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*Now <em>that<\/em> would have made the wire services!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not really*, but NYU and Columbia students are scalping their graduation tickets for items like bicycle pumps: Because each student gets a limited number of tickets, graduates with big families are willing to pay for extra ducats. And enterprising classmates who don&#8217;t need their tickets are hoping to make a quick buck on craigslist and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project_mersh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}