This letter is a complaint about the cost of the alumni show.  Is there any consideration of cost for your adult students at the university? 

There are over 1400 non-traditional adult students who attend the university.  I will graduate in December.  It is enough that we don’t get student services that equate to the traditional student though we work hard and pay taxes to support the university?

Must we also be subject to extraordinary cost to attend a university event?  I am not exactly in the Tigger Crowd, the Little Wayne Crowd, or the Young Jeezy Crowd.  Where is our voice?     I was told that the high cost of the show is because the event will be set up as a New York Style venue with food and table seating. 

I know this same group or a variation of this group performed in Atlanta last week for $35.00 a head, so $65.00 seems steep for the cost of a buffet meal. 

Most of us know, there are several groups performing under the name of the Temptations.  Dennis Edwards would comprise of one fifth of the original Temptations and he was not exactly an original as he replaced David Ruffin who was an original Temptation. 

Maybe the cost is elevated because we are paying a survivorship fee since Edwards is still alive.  I am a Temptations fan but with the elitist fee, my pocketbook says just not THAT big of a fan. 

Contemporary performers with one name that suggests super-star status like Prince or Beyonce had tickets priced under $100.00 when they performed in Greensboro. 

The Temptations review maybe an oldie but not a goodie in terms of cost especially in today’s economy with budget cuts, job cuts and less spending trends. 

It seems a bit exorbitant to the point of gouging to charge these prices for the lack thereof.  I always go to the alumni show but this year, I will be sitting this one out.  

I will watch Dennis Edwards and the Temptation Review at home on DVD.  My cooking is very good.  Does anyone care to join me?

• Celesta R. Dunston