BYU having trouble meeting demand for tickets to commencement and Cheney speech

[Regis Philbin]

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660210455,00.html

A full house for Cheney?

By Tad Walch
Deseret Morning News

PROVO — Brigham Young University expects such a large turnout on April 26 when Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at commencement that tickets will be required to attend the graduation ceremony at the Marriott Center.

Vice President Dick Cheney. The probability that tickets will be in high demand could make it difficult for the general public to obtain the free tickets.

Students graduating this month or in August will have first priority. They will be able to pick up four tickets each — one for the student and three for guests — during a distribution next week.

Those tickets will be distributed April 16-18 at the Marriott Center ticket office. If tickets are left over, the same graduating students will be able to acquire additional tickets for guests on April 19.

If any tickets still remain, they will be distributed to the BYU community on April 23, BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said.

"At this point we just don't know if we'll have any tickets available for the general public," she said.

[LesterX]

And this should surprise or interest anyone because????

[SparkleHugs]

tickets are required at my commencement ceremony in 2 months because there is such high demand and no one special is speaking.


but then again no one special is speaking at BYU either. :laugh:

[Richard Tafoya]

It's a commencement ceremony. Does anyone really think that BYU students don't have anyone that wants to see them graduate? 7,400 students are each offered 4 commencement tickets (they need to use one of them to even attend). The capacity of the venue is 22,000.

Even at a 50% take rate, there's barely room for a few thousand ditto-heads.

Hardly the big win that wingers want to play it up to be.