A year ago, as the North Carolina basketball team entered its Atlantic Coast Conference schedule and student campaigns kicked off, the campus was peeved.
Five phases required students to wait longer before games. And students received only one ticket through the lottery in a policy some blamed for lower attendance.
So students paid attention to the ticket policies put forth by the candidates for the Carolina Athletic Association presidency.
But this year, only one candidate, Caitlin Goforth, has entered the race. Without opposition, she said she is without a firm idea of what next year’s ticket policy might be.
Goforth, a junior political science and Latin American studies major, is currently the head of campus relations for the group and has been a member of CAA for three years.
Even though she is the only candidate running, Goforth does not want the student body to think of her as an illegitimate appointment.
“I do think I am the most qualified candidate for the job next year, for sure. I truly believe that,” said Goforth, who has also worked in the executive branch of student government and in Carolina Fever.
Goforth has worked closely with current CAA president Brandon Finch, whose biggest initiative was revamping the basketball ticket distribution from the year before, continuing several years of changing policies.
Goforth said she has not yet decided whether she will keep Finch’s policy or institute yet another one, saying she plans on meeting with athletic officials, CAA officers and students after the season is over.
