Documentary filmmaker Spike Lee will now speak at 8 p.m. at the OnCenter on Thursday. The award-winning director originally was slated to speak at of Goldstein Auditorium at 5 p.m on Thursday.

Buses will transport students from University Place beginning at 6:30 p.m. and also bring students back after the event.

The event was previously scheduled to take place on campus, but due to multiple scheduling conflicts, the location and time of Lee’s speech changed.

‘He wasn’t able to make it as early as when the speech was originally planned for,’ said Shavon Green, vice president of the Black Communications Society, who is co-sponsoring the event along with the Communication and Rhetorical Studies department. ‘Plus there was an event scheduled in Goldstein right after the speech, so there were some time conflicts.’

Lee’s talk will be preceded by a student performance of either poetry or music. After the main speech, there will be a question-and-answer session with Lee.

There are 1,500 tickets available, and Green said tickets are expected to sell out before Thursday. They are currently on sale at the Schine box office for $5.

‘Now that Lee is speaking at the OnCenter, the community has better access to the event,’ Green said. ‘I’ve been getting a lot of feedback from students saying they were coming so it should be a good turnout.’

eaconnor@syr.edu

Published on February 17, 2008 at 12:00 pm