Tickets will go on sale Monday at 11 a.m. for the Student Association’s bus trip to Washington, D.C. for the March for Our Lives rally this Saturday.

The March for Our Lives is being organized in response to the violent school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead last month. March organizers support stricter gun laws in the United States.

The tickets will be $5 each, and all the revenue collected will be donated to cause that has yet to be determined, Pati said. SA is fully funding the buses. A total of 150 students can ride the buses to the protest on Saturday, said SA Vice President Angie Pati. Students can only buy one ticket each, Pati said. Tickets will be sold in Schine Student Center.

Pati said there will be a pre-departure meeting for students to discuss the buses and plans for the march. Buses will leave Syracuse at 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Pati said. That will allow students to get into Washington, D.C. early, she added. Buses will leave the city at 7 p.m. Saturday.

While SA is funding the buses, as an organization, it does not have an official stance on the march, Pati said.

“Student Association specifically is not releasing their opinion on this specific issue,” Pati said. “We’re just supporting students in what they want to be passionate about, and what they want to voice.”

SA will also be sponsoring shuttles to a March for Our Lives “sister” event in downtown Syracuse. Details on that sponsorship are still not official, but Pati said there will probably be two shuttles leaving SU for downtown at 11:00 a.m. and two leaving at 11:30 a.m.

She said SA members hope to take 240 students downtown for the local demonstration.

The organization will also be partnering with the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, SUNY-ESF and Democracy Matters to send members of those groups to the march in Washington, D.C., Pati said.

“We basically just (funded the buses) because students reached out and they really wanted this. And we want to be there for students,” Pati said.

Published on March 18, 2018 at 10:03 pm

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