Student leaders will work with Vice Chancellor Tom Stafford and Associate Director of Athletics Dick Christy Tuesday to make more definite plans for this year’s Campout.

Their meeting will help determine how many tickets Athletics will provide for Campout, in which students camp out on Lee Field to get tickets to the Wolfpack men’s basketball game against UNC-Chapel Hill.

“You’ve got to balance demands of students who can’t camp out with the nature of this being a tradition that N.C. State has had for such a long time,” Jay Dawkins, student body president and junior in engineering, said.

According to Dawkins, during last year’s Campout, more people signed up to camp than Athletics had tickets for.

Morgan Donnelly, Student Senate Campus Community Committee chair and junior in political science, said she and other student leaders will push for Athletics to allocate as much as 80 or 90 percent of student tickets for Campout, leaving the remainder for a lottery system.

“We understand that not every student can attend Campout for various reasons,” she said.

Because of the commitment that students make to camp out for tickets, and the number of students who are willing to participate, Elizabeth Waldron, a junior in biology, said Athletics should dedicate all of the student tickets to Campout.

“They shouldn’t allot some toward Campout and some toward the lottery because I don’t think that’s really fair,” she said. “It’s either all or nothing.”

Dawkins said Campout is going to be on a weekend in January, which should make it easier for people to participate.

If it were held during the week it would prevent more people from coming because it would interfere with jobs or schoolwork, he said.

Another issue to consider with this year’s Campout, he said, is how to integrate the new ticketing points system, which rewards students who attend more games and penalizes those who fail to use the tickets they reserve.

“We do want to give the better seats to the people that not only attend Campout but have been loyal in attendance to games in the past,” he said.

Roughly 2,800 tickets went to campers last year, including volunteers, but those tickets that were not claimed went to the on-demand pool, Dawkins said. 

The Campus Community Committee sent a survey to students last year about how to allocate tickets, and the majority supported at least 90 percent of tickets going to Campout participants.