SPEC: 'Loveline' tix still available

A small number of held tickets will be sold over e-mail on Friday at 3 a.m. Students unable to obtain tickets to the appearance by MTV's Loveline Saturday night at the Zellerbach Theater will have a second chance to purchase them early tomorrow morning over e-mail, organizers announced last night. According to statement released by the several student groups sponsoring the Valentine's Day-themed event, organizers "will be releasing a limited number" of tickets that have not been claimed. In order to be eligible to receive the tickets, "students will have to e-mail connlect@dolphin.upenn.edu at exactly 3 a.m. on Friday morning," according to the statement. Tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis and will sell for $5, the same as they cost on Locust Walk before selling out. It is unclear the exact number of tickets that will be distributed Friday, but the figure is thought to be under 50. Tickets being released are left over from the ones previously reserved for media and lighting and sound, according to Wharton and Engineering senior Jonathan Freedberg, a co-director of Connaissance. Any e-mails received before 3 a.m. will not be considered and any duplicate e-mails will be disqualified. E-mails should include students' names, phone number and class years. The event will feature Dr. Drew Pinsky and Adam Corolla addressing student questions and concerns on sex, drugs and relationships. The tickets are being distributed as "fairly as possible," Freedberg said. He added that "similar procedures have been followed [in the past] when we have an overwhelming media presence like we do for this big ticket event." All tickets for public release were distributed on Locust Walk on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, beginning at 10 a.m. Some students lined up along the walk as early as 8 a.m. There were 450 tickets set aside for sale during each day. Tickets sold out in record time, going in 15 minutes on Tuesday and in under 10 minutes yesterday, Gruen said. Last year, it took 35 minutes on the first day and 25 on the second for television talk show host Conan O'Brien to sell out an equal number of tickets for his speech. "We're just trying to squeeze as many seats as possible out of the theater," said Freedberg of the 950 total seats available in Zellerbach. Winners of the remaining tickets will be notified sometime on Friday, according to the statement.