The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-16
CAMPUS TICKETS
SELLING FREELY
NEW CROP AT UNIVERSITY BITES
HARD ON THE GAME. n
Bewildered by Many Fees He Has to
Pay, Freshman Falls Easy Victim to
the Confidence Game Of the Willy
Upperclassman Ancient Haking Elk
pedient Still Works.

The time honored stunt Of selling
campus tickets to university freshmen
might furnish material for valuable
study in psychology. It is not the pitt
fully green boy from the country who
purchases the pasteboard which enti-
ties him to all the rights, privileges
and immunities of the walks, library
steps, monument and greensward Of the
university reservation. The green boy
from the back district is hard to find
outside the comic supplement- The
parental allowance by this greengoods
game are fully up to the average in
intelligence.
The university is everywhere regarded
as an institution where free education
is furnished, and despite the statement
Of fees in the catalog, the freshman
comes down feeling that board and
lodging will be the chief items in his
expense account.
He is prepared for the tuition fees,
but laboratory deposits, locker deposits,
book deposits, postoffce box rent and
numerous other small charges come as
successive shocks. By the time he has
handed over the money for these legiti-
ders what will be the next privilege he
will have to pay for.
Then comes the quiet, business like
| upperclassman. Without any excite.
ment or buster he asks the lamb, al
ready well shorn, if he has secured his
campus ticket, hands him the official
looking pasteboard and says, Fifty
cents, please The sum varies with
the apparent prosperity of the victim
Tickets are sold all the way from 25
| cents to $3.50.
| - "Cappers'' Also Buy.
Sometimes, to make the touch more
a few tickets to members Of his class
who are in on the game, taking goo6
care the freshman sees and hears the
whole transaction. At other times hi
assumes the character Of scalper anl
confdentially offers his wares at Gu
rates. In all cases he is successful I'm
less his victim has been warned.
Two typical cases were observed yes
terday. In the first case the purchas
er was a freshman law, who had jus
completed his registration and paid hi
fees. The ticket agent got SO cent
Of the money he had left after the &C
countant had given him a receipt il
exchange for his Statement Of fees
and $50 in the. coin Of the realm.
The other man met his downfall in
crowd of students who were congre
gated in front Of one Of the cigar store
which serve as headquarters for larg
portion of the student body. Aske
first If he were a freshman, by eau
ious-appearing, person who representa-
himself as fellow classman, he wa
drawn aside. The seller. said that h
had fallen down in his entrance exam
and would not be able to enter. H
was going home that night and woul
have no chance to turn in. his tickle
and get his money back. It cost tn
freshman only 25 cents to take advar
tage of his supposed classmate IS dis
tress. - - F., ...s #t15, aNs1
Stories of the sale of campus ticket
have been laughed at as pure fabrics
ton, but the two sales described az
tually occurred yesterday, and are we
authenticated. One was witnessed b
Journal man.
The ticket fake is not "bunco''s i
the true sense. The ticket men are nc
in it to make money, but for the spor
Some Of the tickets offered are yer
elaborate, and the cost Of getting thel
printed exceeds the sum realized frol
their sale. It is mild form Of ha:
, ing and serves the double purpose G
amusing the upper-class man and in
pressing the freshman with the fac
that he does not know it all, even tn
he has been away from the parent,
;, roof long enough to blister his tongu
0 learning to smoke, has eaten sever.
> meals at lunch counter, and been
real university man for half day. Tt
Q joke is harmless and : the lesson
teaches the youngster is worth all
2 costs him.