[Peace-discuss] News-Gazette clarification of Obama itinerary

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Please call him a S.o.B. for me while you are at it.


Karen Aram via Peace-discuss wrote:
> Our demonstration will begin 10:30 am, as close to Foellinger as we 
> can get. Meeting at the South door of the Student Union, facing the 
> Quad, at about  9:40am.
>
>
>> On Sep 5, 2018, at 09:42, David Green <davidgreen50 at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:davidgreen50 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> X-PRESIDENT'S Ul VISIT
>> 944 students win lottery to see Obama
>> 22,000 signed up for chance at Huff Hall seat for speech
>>
>> By JULIE WURTH jwurth at news-gazette.com <mailto:jwurth at news-gazette.com>
>>
>> URBANA — Almost 950 students at the University of Illinois won the 
>> Obama lottery Tuesday night.
>>
>> UI officials notified 944 students, including 756 at the Urbana 
>> campus, that they had been selected to attend Friday’s speech by 
>> former President Barack Obama, who will visit the UI to receive an 
>> ethicsin- government award. Another 141 are from the UI Chicago, and 
>> 47 are from the UI Springfield.
>>
>> A viewing party has also been scheduled at Huff Hall for Friday 
>> morning’s speech, with room for about 4,000 students.
>>
>> More than 22,000 students at the Urbana campus alone had thrown in 
>> their names for a coveted seat at Foellinger Auditorium, which 
>> normally has a capacity of about 1,300.
>>
>> UI spokeswoman Robin Kaler said some seats have to be removed to 
>> accommodate television cameras, and the bulk of the remaining seats 
>> will go to members of the media. Others are reserved for 
>> administrators from each campus and dignitaries, she said.
>>
>> Students were notified about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
>>
>> Kaler said tickets were given out to a randomized list of students 
>> who had entered the lottery, the same way that lotteries for concerts 
>> and other popular events are handled.
>>
>> Obama is being honored the Paul H. Douglas Ethics in Government Award 
>> from
>>
>> the UI’s Institute of Government and Public Affairs, a university- 
>> system-level unit. He will be honored at a private ceremony following 
>> his 11 a.m. speech at Foellinger.
>>
>> The former president opted to come to the Urbana campus to receive 
>> the award, rather than Chicago or Washington, D.C., where he now 
>> lives. A spokeswoman said last week he liked the idea of going 
>> downstate to meet with students and to illustrate the need for 
>> Democrats to reach out to all kinds of voters, not just those in 
>> major urban areas.
>>
>> Some students who were not selected in the lottery expressed their 
>> disappointment on Reddit and Twitter.
>>
>> “Finding out President Obama is coming to campus only to not win a 
>> ticket is the ultimate emotional roller coaster,” wrote Connor Durm.
>>
>> The UI ticket notice, posted by one user on Reddit, urged those who 
>> did not receive tickets to tune in to the livestream of the broadcast 
>> at go.illinois.edu/live or attend the viewing party at Huff Hall 
>> Gymnasium, 1206 S. Fourth St., C.
>>
>> Doors to Huff will open at 9 a.m. Space is limited, and there will be 
>> no admittance after 10:30 a.m., according to the notice. Students 
>> also must show a university ID to get in and won’t be able to bring 
>> backpacks, bags, signs, megaphones, food, drinks or umbrellas inside, 
>> or “any other items that university police determine pose a risk to 
>> safety or a disruption of the event.”
>>
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