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Last summer, Adjunct Instructor of Business Carol O鈥橪aughlin entered a contest she saw mentioned in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The prize? Red carpet bleacher seats at the Oscars for each winner and three guests. The odds? Impossible. While it鈥檚 difficult to get exact numbers, O鈥橪aughlin has been told up to 60,000 people were vying for the 300 seats.

O鈥橪aughlin talked her sister, niece and a friend into coughing up their driver license numbers and other personal information in order to register them all for the contest, and then she pretty much forgot about it. Months later, standing in her driveway flipping through her mail, O鈥橪aughlin found a letter from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It turns out the impossible was not so impossible after all 鈥� as long as O鈥橪aughlin and her guests agreed to a long list of restrictions and passed multiple security checks, including criminal background checks. As soon as O鈥橪aughlin got the final confirmation from the Academy that her and her guests would be allowed to attend, she called the movie editor from the Post-Gazette, Barbara Vancheri, to tell her that she鈥檇 seen the contest mentioned in Vancheri鈥檚 column, and that she鈥檇 won seats.

鈥淏arbara and I went to fourth grade together,鈥� says O鈥橪aughlin. 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 expect her to remember me, but I wanted to let her know about the contest. I didn鈥檛 even know if she鈥檇 call back.鈥� 鈥淪he called back right away,鈥� O鈥橪aughlin says with a laugh, 鈥渁nd it was so nice to talk with her. She was thrilled! She let me know what to expect, and she may even do a story on us!鈥�

O鈥橪aughlin and her guests have to pay their own way to the event and are expected to show up at the Kodak Theatre at 8:30 a.m. 鈥� even though the stars won鈥檛 begin arriving until mid-afternoon. While they will be seated adjacent to the red carpet for the grand entrance, they will not attend the Academy Awards, and instead plan to watch it live with the other contest winners from the El Capitan Theatre across the street. Undaunted, they鈥檝e planned a long weekend in Hollywood, and have created red scarves with the Oscar logo on them to wear to the event.

鈥淭hey鈥檙e sort of 茄子视频 colors,鈥� O鈥橪aughlin explains, 鈥渁nd if they let us wear them we鈥檒l hopefully be easier to identify on TV.鈥�

鈥淭his is not just fun,鈥� she insists, with a very un-statistics-professor-like chuckle, 鈥渢his is overwhelmingly 蹿耻苍.鈥�