Students who failed to claim tickets for next week's speech by Salman Rushdie may be able to see the speech after all.
Rushdie's talk will be simulcast on a screen in the Balch Arena Theater, Dean for Undergraduate Education James Glaser said in an e-mail to students Wednesday.
Tickets for the simulcast are available today beginning at 10 a.m. at the Student Services Desk in Dowling Hall. As with last Friday's ticket distribution, students can get a simulcast ticket with their Tufts ID card, and they can get a second ticket with another student's ID card.
Students who watch the simulcast can also attend the book-signing and reception in the Alumnae Lounge and the theater lobby following the speech.
In addition to the equipment required for the simulcast, the added venue required security changes. "We had to change the metal detection a bit," Dean of Students Bruce Reitman said.
The student tickets for the main venue of the Sept. 27 speech, Cohen Auditorium, were all distributed in under an hour last Friday, Sept. 16.
An article in yesterday's Daily said Glaser sent an e-mail to senior Sara Dalziel, who missed the ticket distribution because she was at class. Dalziel said Glaser promised her and her housemates tickets if administrators decided to hold a simulcast.
Glaser's e-mail, though, did not mention the housemates.
