After attempting to attend The Calendar's organized event “Koerner's House Party” on Saturday evening, I was baffled by how unorganized this event was and the way The Calendar had to hold entry for a good portion of the night with no explanation.
I arrived just after 10 p.m. and the line reached from the door to the sidewalk, curving along the road. As soon as my friends and I got in line, we heard the people standing in front of us complaining about how long they've been standing there for. After 40 minutes, a bouncer wandered down the line, making sure everyone who was in line had already pre-ordered their ticket. Everyone had, as the Facebook event proudly boasted that it had been selling out quickly since the page was created, not to mention all of the posts within the group, looking to buy tickets.
Everyone had bought their right to be inside.
After an hour and a half of arriving, when it was too late to bother cabbing downtown or organize other plans, all of the line-goers were informed that the bar was full and entry would only be working on an one-in and one-out basis. The event was only running until 1 a.m. and being 50 people away from the door, my group decided to leave.
I would like to say that I shouldn't complain about long lines at Saturday night events — it does happen everywhere at some point in time. But what I am surprised about, is that this particular event was run by a student organization.
The Calendar is a great organization that hosts a lot of fun parties. However, on the organizational end, they need to be sure when they are charging students money, that that student is accommodated. While it’s only a $10 ticket, it’s still money out of students pockets and into The Calendar’s.
The Calendar did not oversell tickets, but they also did not refund those who didn’t get inside because of the halting entrance.
The Calendar markets towards students — busy students, who are oftentimes broke and who want to have fun on one of the only two nights they can out of the week. For an organization that is meant to be for students run by students it was disappointing to see them not accommodate so many and not get a real explanation as to why they halted entrance to Koerner’s.
Kat Anderson is a second year student studying Philosophy.
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