Comm. may lower ticket prices
A committee is considering the options for reducing the prices of student tickets for Hopkins Center and athletic events at some point in the coming year. Committee chair and Associate Director of Financial Services Bonnie Norton said the committee has been using this term to weigh the options for reducing prices and will make a recommendation to the College's senior administration by the end of August about whether to reduce the prices. However, Norton would not comment on the committee's findings or considerations, because she said she does not want any of her comments to affect the committee's procedure. "I would think that after our next meeting we would be very close to finalizing our recommendations," she said. The committee members are Jackie Lippe '01, Deirdre Brenner '01, Kathryn Beane '01, graduate student Andrew Whitney, Norton, Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia, Business Manager of Athletics Ken Snelling, Executive Director of the Montgomery Endowment Barbara Gerstner, Hopkins Center Business Officer Jay Cary and Richard Heck, executive officer in the Dean of the College Office. In establishing a contract in which the College would exclusively use its products in dining halls and vending machines, the Coca-Cola company agreed to provide the College with a $200,000 commission for the first two years of the contract, to be adjusted in the third year.