In response to the staff editorial "Freshmen have more chances for tickets," Oct. 3, I would like to reference a few of the incorrect assumptions about officials and their alleged responsibility for seniors not having football tickets this season.

The opinion of the paper is the freshmen unfairly obtained football tickets for this season's games because officials sold them early at FTCAP, worried that they would not sell quickly enough.

This justification was quickly shot down stating instead that officials should have known that tickets would sell swiftly after such an outstanding season.

However, if the officials should have known that tickets would sell so rapidly, then I believe the students should have been aware, too.

Yet you give them the benefit of the doubt, claiming that students were surprised at how fast tickets sold out. Why is only the students' ignorance of the rapid pace of ticket sales pardoned?

I do not believe that the officials were privy to some secret information that the ticket-less seniors were not. Maybe they're not as dedicated to Penn State football as they would have us all believe.