Illinibucks

A couple situations come to mind when considering the use of Illinibucks on campus.   First, there are many restaurants on Green Street that have long lines during the lunch and dinner hours.  Illinibucks could be used to skip the line, which can sometimes take up to 25 minutes.   Also, the most popular bars on campus will have very long lines on Friday and Saturday nights.  I know having a way to skip them would be highly appreciated by some students.   Another would be at career fairs, where I’ve waited 20 minutes to talk to a recruiter.   Trying to talk to an advisor during the beginning of the year and when students are signing up for classes can be very difficult, due to the high volume of students needing advising.  The Illinibucks could definitely be useful in this situation.   Grocery stores have long lines at times, and getting on a Suburban Express bus first might be useful around the holiday season when the buses are at capacity. 

One must also consider that cutting some lines would be much more beneficial than cutting others.  Skipping a food line compared to getting into a much-needed class is less important.   Would Illinibucks be worth a standard dollar amount?  Or maybe they are worth different prices in different situations.

I would use my Illinibucks in different ways depending on how they were allotted, and what they would be worth in different situations.  If not many Illinibucks were given to each student, I would save mine to use in emergency situations, or when it would be really beneficial to cut a line like at a career fair when there is a limited amount of time remaining.   If they were more numerous on the campus, then it would be useful for cutting lines at restaurants and at bars, in my opinion.  But this also makes me wonder, if you can use the bucks for cutting more necessary/important lines as well as bar lines, and there aren’t many given out, would anyone waste them at restaurants?  Or would everyone attempt to cut the line for signing up for classes?  In that case they wouldn’t be worth as much.