Ticket return workers used different colored bracelets instead of stamps and electronic scanners at Saturday’s football game to assign students to seats because of concerns over the weather damaging scanners.

Student Body President Jay Dawkins, a junior in engineering, said he found out about the switch to paper bracelets on Saturday.

“It was one of those things where they weren’t sure what the forecast would be,” he said of the decision to use or not use the scanners. “When it got closer to kickoff they decdided not to use the scanners.”

The high priced scanners, Dawkins said, could have been damaged by the combination of wind and rain.

“They have the covered areas to handle some scanning when it rains but when it’s windy it becomes pretty much impossible to keep them dry,” Dawkins said.

Tim Canty, a sophomore in physics, said he didn’t notice any adverse effect from using the paper bracelets when trying to enter the stadium.

“It was pretty straightforward, I didn’t really see anything too different,” he said. “It took about the same amount of time getting in [using the bracelets].”

David Earley, a junior in English, agreed and said the bracelets caused no problem getting into the game.

“I thought it was pretty seamless,” Early said. “I got there a little later than usual so we just walked right up and they gave us a wristband. There was a never a line to get in [section] seven and eight.”

Although Canty said it was no problem to get into the stadium, he said he thought some students may have been waiting outside to get certain seats.

“I got there right when they were switching from section seven and eight to the south end zone,” Canty said. It seems like people might have been abusing the system.”

Canty said he thought students were waiting outside to get front row seats in the south end zone rather than seats in the upper rows of section seven and eight.

Canty said he thought the system may have been easier than the stamps used throughout the season to this point.

“I felt like it was easier,” he said. “When you left your seat and came back it was easier to just show your bracelet instead of your stamp and ticket.”

Early agreed and said the lines to get back into sections were negligible.

“All you had to do when you came back to the section was raise your hand,” Earley said.

Earley said the bracelet system may make more sense than the stamps, regardless of weather conditions.

“It works really well and it’s easy,” he said of the bracelet system. “As long as [ticket return] still scans the tickets so people get loyalty points the bracelets seem easier.”

Dawkins said ticket return will most likely return to the stamp system for the last home game, Nov. 29 against Miami.

“They’ll probably end up sticking with stamps,” Dawkins said. “The reason this went so much faster is because they weren’t having to scan tickets.”

Dawkins also said every student who received a ticket to Saturday’s game will receive a loyalty point.

“Basically, everyone who received a ticket is going to get a loyalty point,” he said. “If you can’t prove somebody wasn’t there they should get a point.”