Friday, June 25, 2021
Screen-Shotted Athletic department rolls out changes to All-Sports Pass, aims to stop ticket fraud
Devin Lawrence Wilber
Cowgirl fans cheer during the Oklahoma State vs. Oklahoma softball game.
Ryan Breeden Staff Reporter Since Oklahoma State’s All
Sports Pass – a student ticket for yearlong entry to all sporting events – switched to virtual tickets in the fall of 2019, the OSU ticket office has been faced with a pressing issue. How to stop students from selling their tickets? This spring, the ticket office introduced a solution. In an email to OSU students, it was announced that the All Sports Pass was moving to SafeTix, a ticket
service focused on preventing ticket fraud through new technology. “We just don’t want anyone taking advantage of the situation at the expense of someone else,” said Payton Phillips, director of strategic marketing and ticket sales since 2019. SafeTix is different from the previous method mostly because of the barcode. In the past, students would have a virtual ticket with a square barcode that remained the
same from download through game day. The barcode on the new passes will change constantly. At issue was the ease in which students could simply screenshot their ticket and send it to somebody else for entry into games. Sell it to somebody else. Anyone else, too, including fans of opponents. See Screen-shotted on pg.2
Greek rush is back to normal at OSU Kaleb Tadpole Staff Reporter
The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house on Saturday, March 28, 2020.
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Greek Rush is back. After COVID halted the regular style of rushing last summer, fraternities are finally back to a normal state with Greek Rush in the full swing of things already. Fraternities have already started Interfraternity recruitment this summer following Greek Discovery Day in April where juniors and seniors in high school can come and get a taste of Greek life at OSU and see what it is all about. Sororities have not yet started their Panhellenic recruitment; It begins on Aug. 10 and goes through Aug. 15. Now that school is out for the summer fraternities have started to ramp up the recruiting process and get to know their potential new members. Fraternities will
spend the summer recruiting potential new members through a variety of events. “Different chapters will have different activities like golfing, swimming, barbeques, any place where they can do an activity where they can get to know each other better,” Elizabeth Greythorne of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs said. This is a way for potential new members to get to know people who are actively in the chapter, and it is a good way to know if a specific chapter is a good fit for each specific person. With the lifting of the mask mandate at OSU things have also started to go back to normal and that even includes Greek Rush. While they are still taking caution, things are finally starting to seem how they once were. “Since the university See Greek on pg.2