6/21/95                                    Bob Lowry

MANY AUBURN FACULTY/STAFF WON'T GET FOOTBALL TICKETS
     AUBURN -- A record demand for Auburn University football
season  tickets will mean that about 850 of the 5,300 university
faculty and  staff who ordered season tickets for 1995 will not
receive them,  university officials say.
     And faculty and staff who get tickets will be required to show 
identification when presenting them at Jordan-Hare Stadium gates
this fall.
     Tim Jackson, manager of the Athletics Department's Ticket
Sales  Office, says all faculty and staff who bought tickets in
1994 will  definitely have their season ticket orders filled for
the 1995 season.
     But because of the interest generated by home games with 
Southeastern Conference rivals Alabama and Florida and the Tigers'
20-1-1  record the past two seasons under Coach Terry Bowden,
Jackson says AU  will have to refund a total of between 10,000 and
12,000 season ticket  orders this year.
     "We're going to have students who can't get tickets, faculty
who  can't get tickets, people in every area who can't get
tickets," says Jackson.
     AU President William V. Muse has approved a plan to make
refunds  to those who do not receive tickets, says Jane Moore,
chair of the  Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics and professor
of Health and Human  Performance.
     The refunds will be based first on faculty and staff who did
not  order season tickets for the 1994 season and secondly on those
with the  lowest number of priority points," says Moore.
     "The group of faculty-staff who did not purchase tickets in
1994  is larger than required for refund purchases, therefore
distinctions  within that group are being made based on the already
existing priority  point system," she said.
     "Thus, the faculty-staff member most likely to receive a
refund  is an individual who did not purchase season tickets last
year and has a  low number of priority points."
     Moore said Muse also endorsed the committee's recommendation
that  the university resume enforcement of the existing policy of
requiring  faculty and staff IDs with season football tickets.
     "The presentation of IDs is consistent with policies of the 
university's library, University Bookstore and recreational
facilities,"  she said.
     Jackson says faculty and staff who do not receive season
tickets  will be given the first chance to buy special season
tickets that  includes every home game except the Nov. 18 game with
Alabama. About  2,500 of those tickets will be available.
     Also, every faculty and staff member who receive the regular 
season tickets should have their orders filled for away games. And 
Jackson says some faculty and staff who do not receive regular
season  tickets might have some or all of their road game orders
filled. 
     Jackson says there was a 70 percent greater demand for season 
tickets this year than in 1989 when Auburn hosted Alabama for the
first  time at 85,214-seat Jordan-Hare Stadium and was coming off
back-to-back  SEC titles.
     "I thought demand would be a lot higher this year, but I had
no  idea we would have sold this many thousand over what we have
available,"  he said. "It's a great problem for the university, the
Athletics  Department and Auburn people. For this problem to exist,
it means really  good things have had to happen." # # #
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     CONTACT: Jackson, 334/844-4040; or Moore, 334/844-4288.