William Lindsay White Civic Auditorium — Attraction in Emporia

Today is graduation for EHS and as always to many people and not enough space! We had to park 4 blocks away then inside there's not enough seating people overflowing into the hallways​. These days in other city's they​ give each student graduating 5 to 6 tickets for their family and that's all you get (you must have a ticket to get into the event this way it's not over crowded) anyway I have a hard time standing even walking is difficult and yet every time I set foot into the arena to look for my husband I am chased into the hallway by this "worker or volunteer" for standing & looking around -​ he got right up in my face twice telling me "you can't stand here" go out into the hallway​ or sit somewhere (it's hard to find my husband or a seat from out in the hallway) I'm not the only one sitting out in the hallway unable to see or hear what's going on inside where (our kids​ are graduating) it's frustratingly sad... I believe they need to rethink how or even where they do graduations - this arenas​ is getting way to small and there's zero parking "tickets people, tickets"!!! A tip for the old man who got in my face and who was tremendously (RUDE) If your gonna work or volunteer here please leave your attitude at home - you need to be polite, kind, helpful & understanding - maybe you should help people find seats instead of getting in their face and chasing them into the hallway (DON'T BE SUCH A JERK) and ruine this wonderful once in a lifetime event for the students anf parents - really it's hard enough finding loved ones in a crowded ​event from inside but super hard from out in...

There definitely needs to be more handicap parking. Especially when you have graduations and other things going on. I understand you're in the front row for the staff. But when you only have two or three handicap parking spaces with that many people showing up it makes it really difficult for those of us that are handicapped have trouble breathing and other things getting to see our loved ones during their graduation. So maybe you might take that into consideration next year. Either have more handicap parking spot or maybe the reserved spot can be set back a little bit since those people can walk and are not handicapped. Just a thought from somebody that had a really difficult time getting to the graduation and seeing their loved ones graduation I was exhausted and out of breath and I was not happy to see all the nice Reserve spots 4 people that were quite capable of walking. If you have a certain population that's handicapped the number of handicap spaces should reflect...

Stinks. 2024 - The taco salad doubled in price and what you get is half-size compared to last year.

I was lucky to get one of the 3 handicap parking spaces. Went in the side entrance because I can not walk very far. I asked about the on-line ticket at the entrance, and the ticket person talked accented unintelligible gobbledygook. Finally got a ticket at the front, but the person selling programs had no programs. I sat in one of the 3000 empty upper-level seats, like I did last year and the previous 12 years. The security thug came over and told me I have to sit in some designated tiny section on the lower level. I asked for the manager -...