Tickets on Sale for Dalai Lama's Visit to Rutgers; His Holiness to Speak at Stadium Sunday, Sept. 25

May 31, 2005

NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Tickets for the Dalai Lama’s Sept. 25 lecture “War, Peace and Reconciliation” at Rutgers Stadium in Piscataway will go on sale tomorrow, June 1.

Tickets can be purchased weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. by phone at (866) 445-4678 or in person at the Rutgers Athletic Center Ticket Office in the Louis Brown Athletic Center, 83 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway. Online sales will begin later in the month. Whether purchased in person, by phone or online, all tickets will be mailed in late August. Admission for the general public as well as Rutgers faculty and staff is $10. Tickets for groups of 20 or more traveling by bus will receive a discount rate of $7 per ticket. Rutgers students may purchase up to two tickets for $5 each with valid university identification; additional tickets are at full price. Children ages two and younger are free. There is a $3 handling fee per order of one or more tickets. All seating will be reserved.

Parking passes, which cost $10, must be ordered at the time of ticket purchase and also will be mailed. Groups traveling by bus must request a free parking permit during time of purchase. Free shuttle buses will run from designated campus parking areas as well as from the New Brunswick train station. More information on parking and shuttle locations will be available in September. Special seating and parking will be provided for the disabled. For more information regarding special needs or accommodations, contact the ticket office. Sign interpretation will be available.

Doors at the stadium will open at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 25; the program will start at 8:30 a.m. No one will be allowed entry after 10 a.m. Tickets are required for admission and will not be sold on the day of the event, which will take place rain or shine.

Demand for tickets is expected to be very high. Since the Dalai Lama’s visit was announced in February, requests have been received from across the country and internationally.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people, will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Rutgers at the event. The lecture by the 1989 Nobel Laureate will be the keynote event in a semester focusing on issues related to conflict and moral obligation. Honors seminars, special lectures, concerts, exhibits, films and other cultural events and activities inspired by the Dalai Lama’s visit are being organized.

For more information related to the visit of His Holiness, go to president.rutgers.edu/dalailama on the Internet.

Contact (media inquiries only) : Nicole Pride
732/932-7084, ext 610
E-mail: npride@ur.rutgers.edu