Location set for distribution of student, faculty and staff tickets for Donald Rumsfeld's Landon Lecture at K-State; lecture to be on cable tv

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News release prepared by: Beth Bohn, 785-532-6415

Friday, November 3, 2006

LOCATION SET FOR DISTRIBUTION OF STUDENT, FACULTY AND STAFF TICKETS FOR DONALD RUMSFELD'S LANDON LECTURE AT K-STATE; LECTURE TO BE ON CABLE TV

MANHATTAN -- The distribution site for Kansas State University students, faculty and staff to get tickets for the Landon Lecture by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will be in Forum Hall at the K-State Student Union.

Distribution will start at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 6, and will continue until 4 p.m. or until all the tickets are gone. Forum Hall is on the ground floor of the K-State Student Union.

Individuals must show their K-State student or faculty-staff ID to pick up a ticket, and tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. All seats will be reserved; those wishing to sit together should pick up their tickets together. Individuals also must show their ticket and K-State ID to gain entry to the Landon Lecture, which will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, in Bramlage Coliseum.

Student and faculty-staff tickets also have been allocated to the Salina campus and will be distributed by the dean's office.

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.

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.