The first meeting of the 89th session of  Student Senate passed a resolution to be entitled an act to allot seating to all ROTC students for the military appreciation day football game.

The resolution would allow 170 ROTC students to attend the military appreciation day football game and be seated in a section together and to be recognized as a whole, sponsoring Sen. Arialle Crabtree said.

“They have agreed that what tickets they do not use will go towards student veterans who have already served,” Crabtree said.

The tickets will come from the student lottery but will be a small percentage of what are given to students in total Kelli Rogers, Student Senate President said.

“There are about 10,000 seats reserved each game for the student lottery,” Rogers said. “Last year was the most amount of student tickets ever used but there were still some games where there were some sections towards the top that were empty and not used.”

The military appreciation day football game will be Sept. 12 against Murray State and attendance will be greatly affected by the fall Pan-Hellenic Sorority Rush, Sen. Kelley Maryman said.

“It is the weekend of Pan-Hellenic sorority rush too so there are about 1,400 girls or so who will not even sign up,” Maryman said. “So they probably would have gotten the tickets anyways.”

Crabtree said the tickets will be coming from the student lottery but since the ROTC members are students they would have been eligible for the tickets anyways.

“It is not taking tickets away from students. This kind of thing happens all the time. Tickets fluctuate within the lottery system,” Crabtree said. “Granted this is a larger number than is usually fluctuated but not by an extreme amount and not for a major game either.”

Rogers said the Senate will work with athletics to find the best possible scenario.

“We will be working with athletics to be able to find what section will work best for the number of tickets we will give and what section is best for monitoring to make sure that they are ROTC students,” said Rogers.

Sage Boyd, a senior in business and human resources and the Battalion S2 said her branch is very appreciative of the support they have received from Student Government.

“It’s going to be a great day for all the branches in ROTC at N.C. State,” Boyd said. “It will be great to come together to celebrate the achievements that we have all made as battalions and also to recognize our current active duty and military veterans, especially the wounded warriors who will be at the game that Saturday.