Only students likely in venue for Kimmel event

DePauw University students who wish to attend Jimmy Kimmel's Ubben Lecture on Saturday, Nov. 8 should begin lining up at 4:30 p.m. that day outside of Kresge Auditorium in the Green Center for the Performing Arts (605 S. College Ave.).

Students with a current DePauw ID will begin moving into the venue at 6:15 p.m.

Non-students -- alumni, faculty, staff, parents and visitors -- should go across the street to the Lilly Recreational and Physical Education Center (702 S. College Ave.), where a closed-circuit feed of the Kimmel event will be presented.

The line at Lilly will also begin forming at 4:30 p.m. with numbers presented to those who are in that line early.

In the event that not all student seats within Kresge (with a capacity of approximately 1,400) are not filled by 6:45 p.m., individuals at holding low numbers at Lilly will be escorted to Kresge and allowed to take a seat within the auditorium.

Those who attend the event are advised that bags, cameras and recording equipment will be prohibited in both venues. The program begins at 7:30 p.m.

Spectators are also asked to remember:

-- A DePauw student with an ID will be admitted to Kresge Auditorium individually, and may not be accompanied by additional guests.

-- To stand in line with the people you wish to sit with. Upon entering the venue, audience members will be guided to their seats.

"Ever since I began talking with Jimmy Kimmel's team about the possibility of a DePauw visit, the focus has been on creating an event for the benefit of students," explained Ken Owen, executive director of media relations at DePauw and coordinator of the Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series. "I am almost certain that Kresge Auditorium will fill with students before 6:45, so my advice to undergraduates is to make certain they're in line -- the students who are most committed to seeing the event and who are in line early will have no trouble getting in.

"Non-students should be prepared to watch the video feed at Lilly Center across the street, but we have constructed a plan that will allow us to bring some of that audience over to Kresge should we have some empty seats."

There will not be a webcast of the Nov. 8 program.

"There's bound to be some disappointment," Owen said, "as there is for any major event, but we've attempted to create a mechanism that gives all of our 2,200 students an equal opportunity to procure one of the seats within the auditorium. The closed-circuit feed at the athletic center ensures that we can accommodate overflow, and the event will also be televised at The Hub within the Memorial Student Union Building."

Kimmel, host and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," will engage in a conversation with Tom Chiarella, creative writing professor at DePauw, and then take questions from the audience.

The Ubben Lecture takes place during ArtsFest, DePauw's annual week-long celebration of the arts, which has a 2014 theme of "Art and Laughter."

Chiarella, a "writer-at-large" for Esquire, produced a story on Kimmel which was featured on the magazine's April 2014 cover.