Some tickets available for Donald Rumsfeld's Landon Lecture at K-State

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

Tuesday, November 7, 2006

SOME TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR DONALD RUMSFELD'S LANDON LECTURE AT K-STATE

MANHATTAN -- About 1,000 tickets are available for the Landon Lecture by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The remaining tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to Kansas State University students, faculty-staff, and to the general public.

Ticket distribution will start at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8, at the northwest ticket window at Bramlage Coliseum, and will continue until all the tickets are gone.

All seats will be reserved; those wishing to sit together should pick up their tickets together. Individuals also must show their ticket to gain entry to the Landon Lecture, which will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, in 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.