Category: Campus life

UW-Madison student newspaper The Badger Herald got a bad rap in some quarters last week for publishing the names of 35 students who scalped their Rose Bowl tickets. Why not expand on all that young, righteous do-goodery by posting the names of people who commit a sin that is arguably more relevant ? and widespread ? on campus: cheating.

Oh the fun, and the self-righteousness, of being a university student! The Badger Herald has expressed outrage that some students are selling their Rose Bowl tickets at a profit under a system that does not violate UW rules against scalping. Herald editors went so far as to name some of the students who sold their tickets online. Greed aside, where?s the harm if students in need sell their tickets to those who can afford the price bump?

The Badger Herald has removed the names of the UW-Madison students it dubbed “the worst” on campus. Lest you forget, the student newspaper published a list of about three dozen students who purchased Rose Bowl tickets, then tried to sell them for a profit online. But today, the editors removed the list of names in the online article and replaced them with a note.

The Badger Herald has removed the names of the UW-Madison students it dubbed “the worst” on campus. Lest you forget, the student newspaper published a list of about three dozen students who purchased Rose Bowl tickets, then tried to sell them for a profit online. Editor-in-chief Kevin Bargnes subtly noted that there is a “special place in Hell” for those students. But today, the editors removed the list of names in the online article and replaced them with a note.

By publishing a list of 38 names in a 100-word anonymous opinion piece, The Badger Herald garnered national media attention and over 1,0000 website comments Monday.

At 9 p.m. CT on Sunday, the University of Wisconsin athletic department website made 5,800 student tickets to the Rose Bowl available for sale. At 9:20, they were gone.

The intersection of free enterprise and sports is often a relatively happy place. The buying and selling of tickets and merchandise — even at inflated prices — is seen as a necessary trade-off by most fans for the privilege of supporting and watching their favorite team or teams.

The Wisconsin Badgers are going to the Rose Bowl! Wisconsin fans haveanother reason to celebrate! Let the ticket scalping begin!

Kids these days. Guess we can?t blame you for being entrepreneurs in the age of the Great Recession and tuition and fees that have risen faster than the price of gas in the last decade.

The Badger Herald identified more than three dozen student ticket scalpers as “The Worst People on Campus” in an editorial intended to blast the practice of profiting from possession of Rose Bowl tickets from the UW?s limited allotment.

Suggestions for changing the system of distributing Rose Bowl tickets to UW students are being offered in the wake of widespread student scalping of the hard-to-get tickets.

Matt Rosenthal is on the worst people on campus list at the University of Wisconsin. It?s a list compiled by the Badger Herald newspaper, which printed names of 38 students selling their Rose Bowl tickets for a profit. ?They don?t know those 38 students motives, they don?t know anything,? said Rosenthal, adding that the fact that there was no name attached to the opinion piece ?was not cool.? Rosenthal said he put his tickets up for sale as a joke, and that there should be more tickets available for students.

Update: The Badger Herald has removed the names of the individuals previously listed here. We don?t have the resources to continue fact-checking and adding the additional 200 or so names that have been submitted to the newspaper since the initial publication of ?The Worst People on Campus.? Because of this, it would be unfair to single out the three dozen people previously listed on this page.

Monday?s list titled ?The Worst People on Campus,? that ran on this opinion page has garnered a tremendous amount of buzz, not only on this campus but across the nation.

MADISON — Suggestions for changing the system of distributing Rose Bowl tickets to UW students are being offered in the wake of widespread student scalping of the hard-to-get tickets. In an open letter to UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez, published in the campus newspaper The Badger Herald, UW graduate Tyler Bye proposed student tickets be picked up by the purchaser in Pasadena at the game venue to reduce the possibility of student scalping.

University of Wisconsin senior quarterback Scott Tolzien set out to win games, not awards. It turns out he?s doing both.

Tolzien has a 21-4 record as a starter and put his name in school annals alongside the likes of quarterbacks Ron Vander Kelen, Darrell Bevell, Mike Samuel and Brooks Bollinger for leading the Badgers to a Rose Bowl. Also, Tolzien was recognized on Monday as the school?s first winner of the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, given to the top senior quarterback in the nation.

On Sunday night, the University of Wisconsin put 5,800 Rose Bowl tickets on sale for students through the school?s athletics department. All the tickets were scooped up in 20 minutes at a face value of $150 apiece. But shortly after the sale concluded, many of the tickets popped up for sale again — some for as much as $400 each — on various web sites, such as Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist.

The Badger Herald posted an opinion piece headlined: “The Worst People on Campus.” The Herald then lists the names of 35 students. What did these people do?

They bought student tickets to the Rose Bowl through the university — and now are trying to sell them for a profit at Facebook Marketplace.

Editors at The Badger Herald got mad when they saw people they believed to be students reselling Rose Bowl tickets on Facebook.On Monday, they got even.The Badger Herald, one of two student papers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, printed 38 names they said they saw advertising tickets on Facebook Marketplace.

It was the equivalent of a scarlet letter with a capital “W.” On Sunday night, UW-Madison student newspaper The Badger Herald posted the names of 35 students, calling them, “The Worst People on Campus.” The students, according to the Herald, had committed the cardinal sin of trying to sell coveted Rose Bowl tickets online for a profit.

The Badger Herald is pissed off, and taking names. Well, listing names. The names of UW students who snapped up coveted Rose Bowl tickets, and are attempting to scalp them. As strong proponents of public shaming, we stand with you, Badger Herald.

On Sunday night, the University of Wisconsin-Madison put 5,800 student-tickets up for sale after the Wisconsin Badgers football team was invited to the Rose Bowl. Unsurprisingly, the Wisconsin students bought their allotment of bowl tickets in less than 20 minutes. Why wouldn?t they? The Badgers haven?t been to the Rose Bowl since 2000, and what half-frozen Wisconsinite wouldn?t want to take a mini-vacation to Pasadena during winter break?

The Badger Herald identified over three dozen student ticket scalpers as “The Worst People on Campus” in an editorial intended to blast the practice of profiting from possession of Rose Bowl tickets from the UW?s limited allotment.

Controversy on campus! A UW-student newspaper publicly calls out dozens of classmates.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison student newspaper Badger Herald is ripping students trying to sell their Rose Bowl tickets online.