The MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC) is pleased to announce that
it will accept the MIT card for ticket and refreshments sales
beginning at the 25th Annual Science Fiction Marathon on January 25th.
The 2003 Science Fiction Marathon features the movies Contact,
Dr. Strangelove, Innerspace, and Alien, as well
as numerous short subjects and science-fiction trailers.
LSC began to investigate the MIT Card, recently renamed TechCASH,
several years ago to provide greater convenience to MIT students
purchasing tickets to film and lecture events in 26-100. With recent
upgrades to the card system and funding support by the Undergraduate
Association, LSC was able to purchase and install the necessary
hardware. LSC joins a number of other campus vendors who have
recently accepted TechCASH and is the first student group to do so.
Now, LSC moviegoers will be able to use their MIT card to purchase
tickets, cards with a fixed cash-value for refreshments (these cards
may be redeemed in parts and at different events), and Multipasses
which provide 6 movie admissions for $15 (the normal price of 5
admissions).
LSC is working with the Student Activities Office to accept the
card as pilot project which may eventually allow other student groups
to accept TechCASH at their events.
Founded in 1944, the MIT Lecture Series Committee is a student
organization that shows feature films and brings famous lecturers to
the MIT community. LSC shows a balance of current Hollywood
blockbusters, classics, and foreign films, with profits used to fund
lecture events. Recent past speakers include Buzz Aldrin, Harlan
Ellison, John Deutch, Scott Adams, and J. Michael Straczynski. LSC
can be reached at http://lsc.mit.edu/ or lsc@mit.edu.