For most people Friday the 13th is a day to be feared – full of superstitions and bad luck.

This past Friday the 13th was one for the record books for the University Activities Organization, however.

In a two-day total of five hours the UAO Homecoming Concert featuring Ludacris sold out – something that UAO hasn’t achieved in 21 years.

“Anderson Arena, so I’ve been told, hasn’t been sold out for a non-athletic event in 21 years,” Jordan Ohler, president of UAO said.

“Bush and Moby wasn’t technically sold out because production took away seats that we thought we had,” Matt La Riccia, UAO director, said.

Thursday was also a record breaking day for UAO, in two hours and 11 minutes 3,437 tickets were sold to students.

Friday was considered an extra day for ticket sales, and because many students felt that the concert would sell out it took UAO two hours and 49 minutes to sell the remaining 289 tickets.

“It’s very exciting to know that we have a sold out show a good month before the event even takes place,” La Riccia said.

On Thursday, the line for tickets extended from the side doors on the east of Anderson Arena to the west side of Eppler Complex, and while that may have been a lot of students in one place, there were no problems throughout the night.

Campus police were present on Thursday to help with the line, but according to Ohler they were only there to be a presence and not because there were any problems.

“Campus police are at all of our ticket events because we have so much petty cash,” La Riccia said. “They are present for a variety of reasons, including petty cash and crowd control. Safety is first, last and always at all of our events.”

“It went very well. Students arranged themselves. They were very mature and worked very well together. I had no doubts about that. Everything turned out OK,” Ohler said.

Ohler attributes much of the success that this concert has brought to his board.

“I’m very proud of this board, they’ve been working very hard,” he said. “They accomplished what a few people thought that they couldn’t. And that was selling out this show and bringing an act to campus that the students wanted.”

“Student support for this show has been very, very overwhelming,” Ohler said. “And they’ve been very cool throughout this process. We’re excited to see them this pumped-up about a show.”

Now that all the tickets have been sold, a majority of the stress surrounding the concert has been lifted for Ohler.

“Getting people in the seats is the hardest thing to do. Everything else becomes less stressful,” Ohler said.

For other members of UAO the stress won’t be over until the concert is over.

“The day of show is exciting, stressful and chaotic, but that’s the beauty of doing this,” La Riccia said.

“There isn’t a bad seat in the house,” Ohler said. “We only took out enough seats for the stage and for Ludacris’ complimentary tickets.”

“The only thing more we can hope for,” said La Riccia, “is that the actual event goes off as well as this did.”