Donald Rumsfeld's Landon Lecture to proceed as planned at K-State

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News release prepared by: Cheryl May, 785-532-6415, may@k-state.edu

Wednesday, November 8, 2006

DONALD RUMSFELD'S LANDON LECTURE TO PROCEED AS PLANNED AT K-STATE

MANHATTAN --The Landon Lecture by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will proceed as scheduled at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, in Bramlage Coliseum.

About 600 tickets remain for the lecture. They can be picked up at the northwest ticket window at Bramlage Coliseum.

No handbags, backpacks, cameras, briefcases or bags of any kind will be permitted inside Bramlage for the lecture, and there will be no place to check bags.

On Thursday, the parking lots at Bramlage will open at 9:30 a.m. Thursday. Bramlage will open at 10 a.m.

The lecture also will be broadcast live on Cox Cable's channel 8 in Manhattan and Junction City, and can be seen live on the Web at http://www.k-state.edu/landon

In addition to his lecture, Rumsfeld will attend a ceremony to rename K-State's Military Science Building as Gen. Richard B. Myers Hall. The ceremony is at 1 p.m. Nov. 9.