Now that Dear Old State has allowed student hopes to linger for three weeks that more tickets to Penn State football games might be made available for the fall, the answer is now abundantly clear that they will not.

The officials responsible for giving false hope to thousands of students have remained frustratingly silent during this entire debacle. Both Paula Brown, ticket manager for Penn State's Intercollegiate Athletics, and Bud Meredith, director of ticket operations, refused to comment on the ticket situation, directing all questions to Greg Myford, Penn State's associate athletic director for marketing and communications.

Myford said that, in order to sell more student tickets this fall, the university would need to physically add more seats to Beaver Stadium. However, neither the Penn State Office of Physical Plant's main spokesman nor their project manager had heard of any plans to expand the stadium when they were contacted on Sunday.

Unfortunately, it looks like that if you didn't already get tickets, you aren't going to be getting them at all this season.

The only potential solution any Penn State spokesman has mentioned -- adding more seats to the already massive Beaver Stadium -- is ludicrous. Any additional seating would likely not remain consistently occupied each year. Demand for tickets was unusually high this year due to the team's recent success. In a few years, when the team isn't quite as successful, demand for tickets will level off, leaving those seats empty.

A few things need to be done for the university to rectify this issue, and appease all the students who didn't get tickets. Their anger is due to the university's overall sketchy approach to this situation and thus they have a right to be upset.

Ticketless students are going to need something to do on game days so they don't spend the entire day drinking in the parking lot. Perhaps the university should allow fans to watch the game inside the Bryce Jordan Center, a location that could be safe as fans would have to go through a security check.

Somebody, be it Penn State President Graham Spanier, Brown, Meredith or Myford, needs to release a public statement to let students know exactly what is going on with this ticket situation.

Someone in this university needs to grow up and take responsibility for this issue.