Fix ticket lottery system: Use Onyens" not PIDs to register online

Your Onyen is ""the only name you'll ever need"" — except when you're registering for the student athletic ticket lottery. Then you'll need a PID.

PID registration for student ticket lotteries has the potential to compromise the integrity of the lottery system.

We should required to register with our Onyens" which are much more secure.

The student ticket lottery system currently doesn't verify identities of registrants. This leaves students not registered for the lottery system vulnerable to having their PIDs used by others.

This flaw needs to be fixed by next year especially considering that we're going to be using the lottery system for more football games.

Recently a well-meaning student discovered he could register random PIDs for the lottery system. And he dutifully informed authorities of the problem.

But there are certainly some unscrupulous students out there who might like to increase their chances at getting tickets by abusing this flaw — particularly for high-profile games like Sunday's battle against Duke.

Onyens are already used for so many other online services.

Using them for ticket lotteries would protect students' identities — it already has password verification — and it's familiar.

The associate director for the Carolina Athletic Association ticket office Clint Gwaltney said that at this time Onyens cannot be used to register students for the ticket lottery.

But now that this vulnerability is known CAA must ensure that the lottery system is fair in time for next year's lottery.

The University and the CAA should work together to fix this loophole in the lottery system.