Students are still excited for actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s appearance on campus, despite a change in date announced less than a week before the event.

The event was originally planned for Thursday but has been moved up to Tuesday.

According to Amanda Garcia, director of services for the Congress of the South 40, the date change was caused by protests in New York City which delayed the actor’s filming of “The Dark Knight Rises,” a sequel to “The Dark Knight” due out next year.

“His agent called me on Tuesday and something about the protesting that’s going on in Brooklyn right now—all of that is interfering with the filming of Batman, so they had to reschedule a lot of those film dates around those protests, and one of those dates they needed was this Thursday,” she said. “Thankfully the chapel was still available on Tuesday, because otherwise this wouldn’t have been possible at all.”

Despite difficulty communicating the last minute rescheduling, Garcia said that ticket distribution is going just as well as expected.

“We’re currently at 448 tickets sold…we’ve been trying to spread the word but it’s been hard, just because of the short amount of time in which everything was changed,” she said. “I feel like a lot of people didn’t even know that we had started [giving out tickets].”

Ticket distribution was extended from three days to four to make it easier for students to get tickets, despite possible conflicts with Parent & Family Weekend. At least 152 tickets are being saved for students to pick up on Monday night.

“I really just want to make sure everyone who wants to get a ticket gets out there, I just feel awful about the people who weren’t aware of tabling,” Garcia said.

Numerous students said they were unaffected by the change.

“I just heard about it when they switched it to Tuesday already,” senior Amy Lam said. “I’m going to try to grab one [ticket] today.”

Around 100 students lined up within the first 15 minutes that tickets became available Friday afternoon.

“It was awesome, just really overwhelming,” Garcia said. “I’m glad to see so many people were excited about it.”

Sophomore Ali Ames got in line 20 minutes early to make sure she got a ticket, and was surprised to find herself near the front.

“We thought that there was going to be a huge line already, so we wanted to get there early to beat out most of the people,” she said. “I was very surprised at first when there wasn’t anyone in line…and then surprised by how many people were there by probably 6:15.”

Garcia said that while she was sorry to change the date so close to the event, she was thankful to be able to reconcile the issue.

“Basically our choices were move it or cancel it,” she said. “I feel really bad about any sort of conflicts that were caused, but this was really the best we were able to do with the options we were given.”

She stressed that students should arrive as close as possible to 5:30 p.m., when the doors open, to make sure the event can start promptly at 6 p.m.