Students waited in line for hours, hoping to get tickets to the Student Program Board’s trip to Orlando, but there was an uproar when some people chose to cut the line.

Tickets went on sale for the trip on Jan. 11 at 9 a.m. at the CSA office.

With a base price of $240, people started to line up at midnight to secure their spots, some of them setting up tents on the patio outside of the Oakland Center.

“People had their pillows, blankets, power outlets, some people were even sleeping on the patio area,” Nick McCormick, special events chairman of SPB, said.

This price includes round trip transportation, hotel, snacks for the bus ride and five days worth of park tickets — including Disney and other Orlando parks.

While waiting in line, some people were starting to cut to the front. This caused chaos and frustration from those who were waiting the longest and many people started to yell at each other.

On his way to the scene, McCormick considered calling OUPD, but he decided against it.

McCormick said he listened to complaints about students who cut in line.

The individuals who decided to cut were pointed out. Before approaching them, McCormick gave everyone the opportunity to freely admit to cutting.

At this point, about two people left on their own.

McCormick sold one hundred tickets by handing out vouchers for a guaranteed spots on the trip, to those he knew were not cutting in line.

McCormick said they have never had such problem with waiting lines before.

SPB is using $42,000 towards the trip — the most expensive one in OU history.

In order to prevent a repeat of line-cutting in the future, McCormick plans to only allow people to line up a half hour early and have more SPB members watch the lines.

Similar to this event was last years Meadow Brook Ball ticket line.

Sarah Paszko, a senior majoring in health science and President of Meadow Brook Ball Committee, made it mandatory for the committee to watch the lines at two=-hour intervals this year after experiencing similar lines last year.

“At any time I had an average of three to six people watching the line,” she said.

Arriving at 5 a.m. to stand in line for a ticket to Disney, Paszko was not able to purchase a ticket.

“I would suggest to have the committee or people there outside monitoring the line watching and do a count off so we had an idea of where we stood in line,” Pasko said.

To prepare for next year’s line, McCormick said that they are going to have people monitoring the lines and try to restrict people from getting in line that early.