Elie Wiesel Tickets Going Fast at Kent State

Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Price winner to speak in Kent in April

Those interested in seeing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel speak at Kent State University are running out of time. Tickets for Wiesel's presentation in April went on sale this morning and already thousands of tickets have been sold. Kent State spokesperson Bob Burford said 3,000 tickets for Wiesel's April 11 appearance at the MACC were sold in less than three hours this morning. "Those interested should not wait too long," Burford said. The MACC has a capacity of more than 6,000 depending on seating arrangements. Tickets are $50 for preferred seating, $20 for general admission, $15 for group tickets of 10 or more, and $10 for Kent State faculty and staff (one ticket at $10, then additional tickets at the general…

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Tickets Scarce for Kent State's MAC Championship Appearance

Just hundreds left locally and online as of Thursday

If you don't have a ticket by now, your chances are slim of watching in person as Kent State University battles Northern Illinois in the 2012 Mid-American Conference Championship game at Detroit's Ford Field. The deadline to order tickets through Kent State's ticket office was 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Kent State spokesperson Bob Burford said there were just a few hundred of the university's tickets for the game left as of noon Thursday. "Kent State’s ticket allotment for the Friday game was 3,000," Burford said. As of midday Thursday there were less than 200 tickets available for the game on StubHub.com. Ford Field has a seating capacity of 65,000, but it's likely only a few thousand lucky, local fans will actually watch the game from inside …

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Many Ticket Holders Turned Away from Obama Campaign Stop

6,600 people inside the MACC at Kent State listened to the president campaign Wednesday

Officially, 6,600 people — mostly supporters — listened to President Barack Obama campaign inside the Kent State University Memorial Athletic Convocation Center this week. Untold hundreds more who held tickets to the event were turned away at the door on Wednesday. One Kent resident, who asked not to be identified, said he waited in line for two hours on Monday with his wife and two children when campaign officials and volunteers were distributing tickets for the rally. He then took his two children out of school Wednesday for the rally, and they all stood in the rain on the Kent State campus for about two and-a-half hours waiting to see the president before they were turned away. "My kids handled it OK, but I saw some very upset …

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DATA: Number of Parking Tickets Up Slightly

More drivers are getting parking tickets in Kent so far this year compared to 2011

More little yellow envelopes are being stuffed under car wiper blades in Kent this year compared with last year. Through April this year, Kent has issued a total of 1,125 parking tickets compared with 1,071 citations issued during the same period in 2011, according to the Kent Police Department. That's a difference of 54 tickets, or an increase of 5 percent. The reasons for the increase are hard to pin down, and whether or not road closures for construction and the construction workers — who must find a place to park downtown all day — contributed to the increase so far is hard to say. And even though tickets are on the rise so far this year that doesn't mean Kent is necessarily issuing more tickets than previous years. In fact, 2011 saw …

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Kent State Inflates Football Attendance by Buying Tickets

Report: $113,000 spent to reach "90Ksu: Everyone Counts" attendance goal