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Arkansas Lottery Poses Dilemma for Colleges
Arkansas Lottery Poses Dilemma for Colleges
The recent introduction of the Arkansas lottery was good news for most citizens of the state. Lottery tickets went on sale September 28th at over 1550 locations throughout the state. The lottery has not been without controversy. Harding University, a Christian college in Arkansas made a decision to allow its students to purchase lottery tickets and play the newly introduced Arkansas lottery. Despite a student ban on gambling at the college affiliated with the Church of Christ the university made an exemption for the lottery.
The exemption was originally made because revenues generated by the Arkansas lottery go towards funding college scholarships. The scholarships are available for students at both public and private colleges including Harding University. David Crouch, the university’s public relations director cited the funding of scholarships as the main reason for the lottery exemption. Students at Harding are forbidden to gamble. Crouch stated, “We are opposed to gambling. It is part of our code of conduct,”
In October Harding reversed course and banned students from playing the Arkansas lottery. Harding University President David Burks said that the University would include the Arkansas lottery in its student gambling ban. Burks said that the exemption was a mistake. Burks stated, “My intention was to express in our policy the reality that it will be very difficult to enforce any prohibition against the lottery. In an attempt to avoid one appearance of hypocrisy, I made a decision that has itself come to be viewed as hypocritical.” Burks said that students caught playing the Arkansas lottery would face a written or verbal warning. Burks said, “It is important to me that all people, both here and away from campus, know that Harding University stands firmly against gambling.”
The Arkansas lottery has posed a dilemma for other private colleges. Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia has banned students from playing the lottery. Arkansas State University, the University of Central Arkansas and the University of Arkansas ban students from gambling on campus but said that the gambling ban would apply to the purchase of lottery tickets on campus.
While a few states are still arguing about the morality of state lotteries others are joining the 21st century and now allow the purchase of online lottery tickets. Players no longer have to trek to the nearest lottery retailer to purchase lottery tickets. In addition players can check for winning numbers. States with large budget deficits hope the availability of online lottery tickets will boost lottery generated revenues and fill state coffers. Purchasing online lottery tickets has been very popular in Europe and states are hoping for similar results in the US.
El Gordo – Why Play This Spanish Lottery With Its Huge Payouts?
If you are new to the Elgordo lottery, let me highlight just how important this lotto is to a large percentage of Spaniards. The El Gordo lottery has been a national obsession in Spain since way back in December 1812 with massive appeal generated by the Christmas draw every year. In fact, 98% of the population play this Spanish National lottery every Christmas.
There are a number of major reasons why so many Spanish nationals partake in the Christmas El Gordo draw. Firstly, there is the incentive of the largest lottery prize fund of any worldwide lottery game – 2.20 Billion Euros! Secondly, there are in excess of 13,000 cash prizes to be won. Finally, the odds of collecting a cash prize in the Christmas draw are a highly achievable 1 in 6.
With the amount of interest that is paid to the Christmas El Gordo lottery draw, lots of individuals are not even aware that there are five more El Gordo draws each year as well. These take place in January, March, May, July and November. Although these 5 draws do not enjoy the incredible prize fund of the Christmas game, they are considerable nonetheless, ranging from 78 million Euros to 655 million Euros. Furthermore, these games offer almost 3 times as many prizes as the Christmas draw and odds of collecting a cash prize of an incredible 1 in 3.
The Spanish Christmas Lottery works differently to the majority of other worldwide lotteries. A whole ticket ‘billete’ is very pricey, costing 200 Euros. However, these tickets are split up into ten ‘decimos’ (tenths) costing 20 Euros each. When purchasing your tickets you have the option of purchasing one decimo, a complete ticket, or a portion of a ticket. If you do not purchase the whole ticket, someone else will purchase the remainder of your ticket. For example, if you purchase two decimos, someone else buys three and another buys five decimos and your ticket scoops 1000 Euros, then you will secure 200 Euros, 300 Euros and 500 Euros respectively. Due to the price tag of buying an entire ticket, it is typical for families and friends to pool their lottery funds and each person purchase a single ‘decimo’ (tenth).