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Sorry, folks
Bacchanal has officially sold out of all 4,000 tickets as of tonight according to the Bacchanal board. With sales beginning at 8 AM, the concert was able to sell all tickets in less than 12 hours. Given the statement from Bacchanal yesterday afternoon, students who did not purchase a ticket today will not be able to attend the concert next month.
A statement from Bacchanal board will be released later tonight on the issue.
Update: March 10, 11:41 AM: The Bacchanal committee released the following statement in regards to why there was a cap on tickets sold as well as the decision to sell tickets for the concert.
1. Why is there a cap this year?
After reviewing our event, campus partners felt that there was a need to set a capacity allowed in the Bacchanal venue space, and capped attendance at 4,000. Efforts were made to look for viable solutions but in order to maintain a safe a secure event, the cap could not be increased. The Bacchanal board sincerely apologizes to any student who can’t attend the concert due to this limit, but any capacity decisions are completely out of our hands.
2. Why is Bacchanal selling tickets this year?
The decision to sell tickets was not taken lightly. The Bacchanal committee is committed to annually providing the Columbia community with a quality event, and one that is safe, fun, and secure. This year the committee faced additional costs associated with event improvements made after meeting with the four Undergraduate Deans and various campus partners. We will have an increased Public Safety and CU-EMS presence, a Medical Tent, food and water, and more to address the concerns expressed to us by campus partners and fellow students. Further, due to the fact that this event is funded by undergraduate student fees, campus partners expressed interest in registering and ticketing students to ensure that attendees were limited to current undergraduate students. Lastly, the committee wanted to ensure a relevant and exciting artist, and felt that selling tickets was necessary to meet all needs and present a high quality concert.
Please refer to our press releases or email us bacchanal.eboard@gmaill.com with any unanswered questions.
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@YO I heard about a way to get onto the roof of Lowe recently. We should throw a party up there and get SCHWASTED.
@going2penn why are we celebrating columbia again?
https://www.facebook.com/events/1414725272172324/
brb transferring
@Dezmond Goff Email did not say that there were only 4000 tickets. It’s one of those things you should probably mention…which makes me thing they left that detail out on purpose (maybe because they didn’t think it would sell out that quickly, so they wouldn’t have to spill the beans til later, which is just bad planning and shadiness).
@Zzz Ben Kornick’s LinkedIn profile boasts that he “Oversee[s] marketing initiatives [for Bacchanal] (quadrupled attendance from 1,500 in 2012 to over 6,000 in 2013)”
@transparency please? not blaming bacchanal committee because they probs were forced to follow these regulations by the administration but why couldn’t the process be more transparent? I mean it is our fees that actually bring this event to light. Maybe if the process of choosing the venue and how the administrators wanted a cap was disclosed to the general student body, we could have at least pushed the admins to have a discussion on it or at least consider moving the venue to baker field or something like that. The fact that there is going to be a cap and that students have to pay an additional fee was disclosed so late after all decisions have been made is quite unsettling. And this whole situation is just really sad, especially for seniors who couldn’t get tickets.
@JustCurious How many people attended Bacchanal last year?
@so..... since everyone’s student life fees were used to put on this event, the students that cant go will get a refund for our student life fees right
RIGHT???
@CC16 instead of people just complaining here, flood the emails of the Deans….
@Got tix??? I have 2 tickets for sale, 350$ a piece
@Anonymous Ugh I wish I could get a refund… I got a ticket but my boyfriend many of my friends didn’t, and it’s not like I want to go without them. Such bullshit.
@Really? Between the Columbia-mandated middle-school style sexual respect workshops and this, the administration is really hitting the nail on the head with this whole “keep the school body under control” thing, aren’t they?
So frustrated, I ain’t even mad.
(…loljktotesmad.)
@Fuck Censorship Fuck off bwog way to delete all of our comments
@There is still hope Bacchanal tickets up on StubHub for $20 !
@Senior cc 15 Wow, as a senior, that’s terrible. I’ve never missed a bacchanal concert all my life at Columbia from Macklemore and currency to Lupe fiasco. After hearing about the 7 dollar minimum, I wanted to look up more of big sean’s music to see whether I wanted to spend the money to go. It’s really sad that as a senior, I will be missing Bacchanal for the 1st time ever. I am dissappointed that the council did not create more tickets or reserve tickets for columbia students. I am greatly displeased.
@Anonymous …weren’t they *all* reserved for columbia students?
@Not the same Reserved for columbia as in reserved for columbia and not barnard
@Turnip Can everybody just boycott the concert so that when Big Sean shows up nobody is there?
@Anonymous Not everyone here has $8.38 to spend at a moment’s notice. I currently have $2.47 on my debit card and $3 cash (that’s all the money I have in the world literally) and don’t get paid until Friday. Some of us have to pay our own tuition and costs because our single parent works 2 jobs just to pay the mortgage / feed a sibling and can not send us money. Period. This is downright ridiculous, and a classic example of Columbia ignoring the economic situations of its students by assuming that everyone can afford this (not to mention those 10 completely unnecessary books for that one class that your professor assumes you can afford somehow and gets angry when you can’t). They need to plan the events to accommodate the entire student body. More students = more profit anyway. I’m a first year so I’ll get more chances, but I feel really bad for the Seniors.
@be smarter FYI, I’ve made it to senior year without buying more than one book per semester. Go to the library and use the reserves, find textbooks online, there are .pdf files of almost everything floating around on campus.
be smarter and you can definitely find $7. I’m sorry but if you can’t find $7 you can’t live in New York City. Don’t take the subway 3 times. Trade some swipes with someone for $5.
I have a similar financial situation to you, possibly a bit better, possibly a bit worse, but you sound like the worst financial planner of all time. I was doing better than that freshman year of high school.
I’m sorry, but Im sick and tired of hearing students on significant financial aid complain that they cannot find $7. That is your fault. I am one of you, but that is YOUR fault. Plan better, be smarter, this is one step before the real world. Get your shiz together.
@Get A Heart We didn’t *know* we had to plan for this — ticket sales started 12 hours after this was announced, so it’s not like anyone could budget with it in mind.
One of my friends was waiting till they got their paycheck this week, since he didn’t have enough money in his current accounts to spare $7. It would’ve been fine if the tickets hadn’t sold out, but they were all gone by the time he got it. People can’t plan for an UNEXPECTED expense.
@Anonymous “People can’t plan for an unexpected expense”
I think this is EXACTLY what the above was talking about re poor financial planning…
@EmpressTheodora Actually this was announced at least a week and a half ago…at least to GS. That’s why we knew to do this! https://www.facebook.com/events/703867473055542/
@hehe guess i’ll be “going to butler” for the first time all year
hehe
@Fire Marshall It was capped to 4,000 due to a fire hazard. It’s dangerous to fit more than 4,000 in the quad.
https://www.facebook.com/ccsc2015/photos/gm.1566666856923459/943559869022566/?type=1&theater
@Senior cc 15 This never stopped them before……
@Anonymous Wait but commencement/class day/past bachannals?
@Anonymous is it just that the presale tickets are sold out, or is legit everything sold out? you know sometimes they put caps on price-levels.
@2018 It’s almost like Columbia is TRYING to find ways for me to not want to donate when I’m an alum. #Krommspiracy
@Big Sean I dont fuck with you (Bacchanal)
@Anonymous Really though…I say us unticketed folk set up a big chill outdoor party/excuse to day drink elsewhere on campus. The plaza outside EC?
@It's happening! https :// www . facebook . com / events / 703867473055542 /
(Remove the spaces, bwog won’t allow links in comments)
@EmpressTheodora Bach for the Uninvited! – https://www.facebook.com/events/703867473055542/
@Johnnie Johnson Bitchass columbia fails again
@prezbo Thanks Obama
@confused don’t understand why everyone wants to see wally shawn so bad
@Secondary Market Rape Selling 5 bacchanal tickets, $80 each hmu
@d yo CHILLLLLLLLLLL
@excited to see my student life/bach money spent on a concert I’m not allowed to attend
@Gold Man Sacks Good thing I’m a commodities trader.
@yo this sucks
@Anonymous Fuck Cristen Kromm
Fuck James Valentini
Fuck Mary Boyce
Fuck Avis Hinkson
Fuck Peter Awn
@Anonymous This won’t stop me from going
@Anonymous i fucking hate columbia and FUCK THE DEANS
@Tim Bacchanal? More like BacchaNOT!!!!!!!!!!
@Class of 2015 Happy senior year, y’all!
@Senior cc 15 right?
@cc15 It’s truly the icing on top of the cake of a delightful 4 years.
@Hey Undergrads! I don’t give a fuck, I don’t give a fuck
I don’t, I don’t, I don’t give a fuck
Bitch, I don’t give a fuck about you, or anything that you do
Don’t give a fuck about you, or anything that you do
– CU administration
@CU Senior Fund Except donate once you graduate pls
@nice rarely do you see a double comment by the same person so highly rated. well done, anonymous internet user!
@aculy iz Prezbo I’ve been refining my bwog commenting capabilities for year$
@unfair I didn’t get paid until tomorrow. I was going to wait until tomorrow until I had the money to buy the ticket. Now you’re telling me I can’t go because I waited a fucking DAY?
@REFUND So now that the administration has solid evidence on the stupidity of this ticket cap of 4,000, can everyone get a refund and can we all just go to Bacchanal for free and without any tickets like last year please?
@I don't even go here The other weird thing is that eventbrite does not offer/require any kind of verification of uni or enrollment status or anything. Anyone with a link could have bought tix…(not without running into problems day of, but still)
@Anonymous that’s not true? when you start the actual purchasing process it asks for your name and later your UNI and your columbia email.
@I don't even go here Yea but you could easily enter bullshit. There was no authentication of those details. The ticketing platform should have been through a university website.
@Lol Watch out for the tickets about to be sold for $50 each by the scalper who bought them all with fake UNIs
@Anonymous Im excited to sit back and eat my popcorn as I watch columbia try to alleviate the situation for the 6000 undergrads (including myself) plus grads who cannot attend. Good luck with this one
@Dr. Boom gg
@Anonymous “With sales beginning at 8 AM, the concert was able to sell all tickets in less than 12 hours.” WAS “ABLE TO”? OF COURSE THEY WERE “ABLE TO.”
@PLEASE EMAIL HER YOUR ANGER Cristen Scully Kromm
Dean of Undergraduate Student Life
ckromm@columbia.edu
Phone: 212-854-6806
THIS IS HER AND THE REST OF STUDENT LIFE’S FAULT. PLEASE TELL THEM HOW RIDICULOUS THIS IS.
@Anonymous So not enough tickets, let alone any guest tickets…great
@That's okay, I’ll just spend my 7 dollars on a nice lamb over rice from Halal Guys and then clamber onto the roof of Low and watch the clusterfuck unfolding, occasionally tossing down a piece of lamb at the hungry sheeple below.
@Don't worry y'all They’ll definitely release more because they only made 28k today which isn’t nearly enough to cover the 50k wasted on Fall Bacchanal!
@@BigSean FINALLY SOLD OUT MY FIRST CONCERT!!! :D:D:D:D
@The Phantom Shadow but who is realy to blame for all of this? It is of course the columba spectator truly a blight on our great universidad.
@ugh I left for my internship at 7 am and did not get home until now and tickets are gone. No access until a computer. This is really sad as a senior.
@Anonymous Smartphone? sorry dude/tte
@Anonymous yo he/she was at work and is obviously professional enough to not whip out their phone to buy tix to a big sean concert…
@Anonymous A full workday without a bathroom break? Give me a break.
@Anonymous haha another reason why Columbia sucks holy shit
@Anonymous This is pretty fucking ridiculous. Thanks Columbia…
@Anonymous MANDATORY EARPLUGS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED FOR ALL WHO DID NOT RECEIVE TICKETS
@Anonymous does this mean we can’t be on campus? what do these tickets even give you access to – the Steps?
@CC'15 unofficial “Fuck CU” party in front of Butler! Listen to music for free, free from the administration!
@Anonymous https://www.facebook.com/events/703867473055542/
@Anonymous This sounds like more fun than actual Bacchanal tbh
@Anonymous what a clusterfuck.