Dinner tickets for 23rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at Syracuse University currently on sale

Tuesday, December 4, 2007, By News Staff

Dinner tickets for 23rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at Syracuse University currently on saleDecember 04, 2007Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu

Dinner tickets for Syracuse University’s 23rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, to be held Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008, in the Carrier Dome, are currently on sale.

This year’s program-“King’s Challenge: Can We Live Peacefully in a Violent World?”-will feature keynote speaker Barbara Ransby, a historian, writer and longtime political activist; the presentation of the 2008 Unsung Heroes Awards; and entertainment. The program portion of the event, beginning at 6:30 p.m., is free and open to the public.

The dinner precedes the event at 5:30 p.m. Dinner tickets are $20 for the general public and $13 for students without meal plans. Students with meal plans will be charged for one dinner.

For ticket information, contact Ginny Yerdon at Hendricks Chapel at 443-5044 or gyerdon@syr.edu