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Admin unsure on number of tickets
by Quinn Lockwood
News | 11/6/07
Posted online at 9:32 PM EST on 11/5/07
/ Last updated at 11:15 PM EST on 11/5/07
While the University still doesn't know how many tickets will be available for former President Bill Clinton's address on campus Dec. 3, over 70 percent of students as of last Friday registered for the online lottery for ticket distribution, Brandeis spokeswoman Lorna Miles said.
A definitive number of tickets for students hasn't been determined yet because details for the event are "changing day-to-day," Miles explained. Approximately 2,400 undergraduate students registered for the lottery system as of last Friday, Miles said. According to the Office of Admissions, 3,304 undergraduate students are enrolled at Brandeis.
While registration for the lottery ended before midnight last Sunday, more recent numbers from Library and Technology Services regarding how many seats will be open and how many students have registered weren't available as of press time. Students who are awarded tickets through the lottery will be notified via e-mail this coming Monday, while those who don't receive tickets won't be notified.
Clinton will speak in honor of the late Eli Segal '64, his former adviser in whose honor a new Citizen Leadership Program in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management was recently established.
There were roughly 1,700 seats available for former President Jimmy Carter's speech last January, which was held in the Shapiro Gymnasium of the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center, the same venue where the Clinton event will be held. Over 1,000 students waited in a line in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium, but which spilled outside, for tickets to the Carter event. With this year's online registration, there will be a large number of students who registered for tickets who won't be able to attend the speech.
"We are working to have as many seats available as possible, but unavoidably we will have fewer seats than people who want to go," Miles said.
Students should have received an e-mail containing instructions about online registration for the lottery last Tuesday, but the message wasn't sent out until last Wednesday. Miles said the e-mail was delayed because LTS didn't have all the necessary information on time. There were also problems with the link to the registration page in the late e-mail.
A definitive number of tickets for students hasn't been determined yet because details for the event are "changing day-to-day," Miles explained. Approximately 2,400 undergraduate students registered for the lottery system as of last Friday, Miles said. According to the Office of Admissions, 3,304 undergraduate students are enrolled at Brandeis.
While registration for the lottery ended before midnight last Sunday, more recent numbers from Library and Technology Services regarding how many seats will be open and how many students have registered weren't available as of press time. Students who are awarded tickets through the lottery will be notified via e-mail this coming Monday, while those who don't receive tickets won't be notified.
Clinton will speak in honor of the late Eli Segal '64, his former adviser in whose honor a new Citizen Leadership Program in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management was recently established.
There were roughly 1,700 seats available for former President Jimmy Carter's speech last January, which was held in the Shapiro Gymnasium of the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center, the same venue where the Clinton event will be held. Over 1,000 students waited in a line in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium, but which spilled outside, for tickets to the Carter event. With this year's online registration, there will be a large number of students who registered for tickets who won't be able to attend the speech.
"We are working to have as many seats available as possible, but unavoidably we will have fewer seats than people who want to go," Miles said.
Students should have received an e-mail containing instructions about online registration for the lottery last Tuesday, but the message wasn't sent out until last Wednesday. Miles said the e-mail was delayed because LTS didn't have all the necessary information on time. There were also problems with the link to the registration page in the late e-mail.
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posted 11/06/07 @ 7:34 PM EST
Lorna Miles' title is Senior Vice President for Communications.
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