MSU: Romney Event Venue has Reached Capacity

STARKVILLE, Miss. — Mississippi State welcomes former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Wednesday as featured speaker for the university’s Global Lecture Series.

Sponsored by the MSU Student Association, the free, public address will begin at 6 p.m. in Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium. Romney will give his perspective on global issues and key challenges facing America and the world today, with a brief question-and-answer session following.

All tickets to the venue, made available on a first-come, first-served basis, have been claimed. A limited number of tickets are available for the simulcast in Colvard Student Union’s Foster Ballroom. To obtain these overflow tickets, visit the MSU Center for Student Activities, Suite 314, in the union, or call 662-325-2930.

Those attending are reminded of the following:

–After 5 p.m., the public can park in any legal space, as long as it is not reserved, service or handicapped.

–No recording devices are permitted, including cell phone cameras, personal cameras or personal video or voice recorders.

Earlier that day, Romney will meet with members of the MSU Student Association and then with a group of the university’s student leaders.

The 2012 Republican nominee for president of the United States, he also was a leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.

Romney was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2002, and in 2006 signed into law a private, market-based reform ensuring health insurance for every state citizen. As a highly successful businessman, Romney first gained international recognition for his role in turning around the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Previously, from 1978 to 1984, Romney was a vice president at Bain & Company, Inc. In 1984, he founded Bain Capital, one of the nation’s most successful venture capital and investment companies.

MSU’s Global Lecture Series is sponsored by the Student Association that previously has hosted former U.S. secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Gen. Colin Powell, news anchor Dan Rather, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient F.W.de Klerk, the seventh and last president of apartheid-era South Africa. The established program gives MSU students the chance to hear national and international leaders with varying viewpoints and to interact with them.

MSU is Mississippi’s flagship research university, available online at www.msstate.edu.