Spring Weekend Ticket Dilema

As we get closer to end of the semester the work load picks up and the hours in the library increase. It also means that spring weekend is coming upon us and this year Keene State has brought most likely one of the best concerts this college has ever seen. Lupe Fiasco and Sam Adams will be coming this year and everyone was truley excited about it until the ticket mayhem started. All over campus you will see posters and advertisements about this concert telling who is coming, when it is, and when tickets go on sale. This past monday was when tickets went on sale, they started selling online at 9 a.m. and in the student center at 10 a.m., by 12:30 p.m. the concert was sold out. This lead to more than half the campus in a feud about not getting tickets as there was only 2200 tickets sold which isn't even half the campus. The concert is scheduled to take place in the gym which I figured could hold a little more than that. If there was only a limited amount of tickets then I think they should of advertised that on the posters around the campus because many students have class all mornings therefore not letting them have time order them. Do you think that the advertisements should have expressed the limited amount of tickets?

In Response to Haley Irwins: Disney Contradiction

After reading Haley's blog on Disney and how they portray happiness and a great time but really behind the scenes work their employees to death to become known as that special place for happiness and laughter. After being to Disney World a few times in my life and having a great time down there with my family I never thought about the people and what it takes to make Disney so great and such a good time. Haley explains what happens behind the scences at Disney and I agree with her that it is not right to have employees working overtime way beyond than they should with no extra pay, treating them unfairly, the list goes on and on but Disney has built up a great reputation to be happy and great vacation for families.

Too Many Commercials

March is a great time of year for sports fans you have the big dance which is the college basketball tournament, the NBA and NHL seasons are almost over so that means playoff time for the Celtics and Bruins. Being that these are all on T.V. means that we have to watch more T.V. and that means way to many commercials on every single channel. In every single sporting event on T.V. excpet for soccer they have media T.V. timeouts which is just saying that they are taking a timeout to play commercials. I think that is redicolous a half of basketball should only have timeouts if one of the 2 teams calls for it, none of this T.V. timeout every 4 minutes thats now how basketball or any sport should be played. Even though many people watch these games all around the nation and it is a great chance for advertisement save it for halftime or other shows, we see these commercials enough when ever we watch T.V. anyways. Would you like to see not as many commercials or T.V. timeouts when watching a sporting event on T.V.?

In Response to Cory Secore's: Coca Cola

Coca Cola I can remember since I was little kid because it is everywhere like Cory states, commercials, billboards, stores, any public place you will most likely see a Coca Cola advertisement. Even if I were to travel to Russia or Australia like Cory states you would still recognize there logo because we have seen it so many times. In our world today it would take a very long and catchy logo to be remembered and memorized as much as Coca Cola's is today.

Spring Break

As this is the last week before spring break for us you hear everyone talking about where they are going and for how long. I have mostly heard a lot of students going to Florida, that seems to be the hot spot this year for break, for me I am just heading home to relax and not spend any money. The reason I am blogging about spring break is because you always see ads on T.V. or online for spring break trips and the deals you can get them for them. My question is that is it really a good deal for many of these trips with us being broke college students?

In response to Griffin Corse's Maple Syrup

After reading Griffin's blog about maple syrup it made me think back when I used to go out sugaring with my friends Dad who had a sugaring house and how much fun it was doing it. He did it mostly for fun and sold some of it to people but was never reliable on it for income. When I saw Griffin's blog I remembered that to many people it is very important and they put a lot of time and effort into so they can make the most out if it and not lose money. As Griffin states it is hard to market maple syrup when there are so many brands and other people doing the same thing. I think the best way to market or differentiate it would be locally even though they sell the barrels to a big company I think distributing locally would draw in a good amount of consumers knowing they are helping a local citizen and helping them live the way that they help the community by sugaring or farming.

Rediculous Gas Prices

In the last two weeks gas prices in America have risen on average of 34 cents due to the oil crisis in Libya. This sudden outbreak in high gas prices is taken a toll on everyone in the United States as many people are having trouble putting gas in their tanks now. Just two weeks ago gas was around or under $3 a gallon now we are looking at $3.40 a gallon which is the highest it has been in 3 or 4 years. If the price of oil keeps increasing our economy which seemed to be on the verge of becoming stronger and out of a recession will just fall right back into one if gas prices reach $4 a gallon, I know I will be having trouble filling the tank every week. Does the sudden increase in gas prices affect you?