After hearing too many complaints about the new student football ticket program, ASMSU representative Eric Hinojosa talked with Associate Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Mark Hollis last week about ways to improve the system - including an online program for students to transfer tickets to another student ID.

"The students were angry that they lost the flexibility that they had with the voucher system," said Hinojosa, the Residence Halls Association representative for ASMSU's Academic Assembly.

Season football tickets are now on student IDs, which makes them more difficult to sell to other people, but Hollis said he is taking student suggestions into consideration while he works on establishing new ticket options.

"Mark was very easy to work with," Hinojosa said. "He was very interested in what the students had to say on this."

It seems fair to allow a student to sell their discounted ticket to another student if they can't make it to the game, Hollis said, adding that he hopes to have an online program running by the end of the season so students can transfer their tickets to other students' IDs.

"If you buy season tickets and you can't be there for a game, then you're giving up a seat for no reason," international relations freshman Emma Madison said.

Jon Witt, an interdisciplinary studies in social science and human resources junior, said he has bought tickets from students in the past and thinks the online program is a good idea.

"If you pay for the ticket and you can't go, it's your personal property," Witt said. "You should be able to sell student section tickets to students."

Most complaints concerning the ticket system were from students who wanted to sell their tickets to nonstudents for the game against the University of Michigan, rather than selling tickets to another student if they couldn't go to the game, Hollis said.

"We don't encourage the resale of tickets," Hollis said. "It's not fun to see 40 percent of your student section wearing maize and blue.

"We're looking at some systems that will allow those transactions to take place using the athletics department, which basically legitimizes the sale."

Hollis said he is looking into programs that other Big Ten schools use, such as the U-M system which allows students to pay a fee to upgrade their student ticket to a public ticket.

Until a new system is implemented, the only way students can legitimately buy tickets is to buy $30 guest tickets for games that aren't sold out, Hinojosa said.

These discounted tickets can be purchased the Monday before a game at the Jenison Field House.