President Obama will be Speaking from McCamish next Tuesday (3/10)

[Connor]

Great opportunity for current students to experience something exciting in McCamish this season for once. Attendance seems to be closed to just the current GT community.

Details--> http://www.gatech.edu/obama

Line on campus was like this in only a few minutes from the announcement- a couple thousand deep.

Regardless of your political preferences and opinions, it'll be exciting to have a small bit of the national spotlight on campus- I hope the message can revolve around STEM.

Go Jackets!!

 

[jwsavhGT]

I was a student when Pres. Carter spoke at the Tit. As you said, regardless of political leanings it is a rare opportunity.

 

[Animal02]

I was a student when Pres. Carter spoke at the Tit. As you said, regardless of political leanings it is a rare opportunity.

Did you through snowballs at the motorcade after the commencement?

 

[AE 87]

Fitting

 

[jwsavhGT]

Did you through snowballs at the motorcade after the commencement?

Not me...I was young & naïve about politics back then. Plus I figured that if anyone would get busted for that it would be me.

 

[Animal02]

Not me...I was young & naïve about politics back then. Plus I figured that if anyone would get busted for that it would be me.

Several people around me did.....I was a little to chicken. I remember a press photographer in the follow car got pummeled

 

[GTNavyNuke]

I was a student when Pres. Carter spoke at the Tit. As you said, regardless of political leanings it is a rare opportunity.

I was there too. What really impressed me is I walked by some of the Secret Service cars and got a glimpse of the extra weapons in the cars. Ready to fight a war. I can only imagine the security today.

I'd go to see the President too. He is the Commander in Chief. Despite your political leanings, I think all Presidents in my lifetime have done what they think is best for the country. They all deserve respect IMHO.

 

[thocut]

Stood in this line for 3 hours yesterday to get my ticket:

It ended up going from the Peachtree Room of the student center, past the post office, under the stairs, out the door, all the way around Tech Green, past the fountain, up Atlantic Drive, and up past Howey. I heard that it eventually almost reached the Biotech quad

 

[Northeast Stinger]

I am really really impressed. What a huge opportunity for Tech!

For what it is worth, I have heard several presidents speak in my life time and this president is actually one of the better speakers.

 

[LibertyTurns]

Wow, never been nuked before. Appears a number of posts took the pipe here.

 

[BOBO]

Erik, why only positive Obama posts allowed?
Are you an Obama supporter??

 

[Eric]

Erik, why only positive Obama posts allowed?
Are you an Obama supporter??

Just not the topic for a political debate.

My opinion of the President carries no weight in this issue and I probably wouldn't have noticed if other users hadn't reported these posts.

 

[AE 87]

I am really really impressed. What a huge opportunity for Tech!

For what it is worth, I have heard several presidents speak in my life time and this president is actually one of the better speakers.

Fwiw, I agree if we measure speaking by rhetoric and emotional appeal. However, by measures of national identity/unity, political significance and honesty, he's been one of the worst, imo.

 

[awbuzz]

Speaker... Yes...

However, he's over the top with "questionable" facts...
Regardless, current students should take advantage of the opportunity to see POTUS live.

 

[Animal02]

I was there too. What really impressed me is I walked by some of the Secret Service cars and got a glimpse of the extra weapons in the cars. Ready to fight a war. I can only imagine the security today.

I'd go to see the President too. He is the Commander in Chief. Despite your political leanings, I think all Presidents in my lifetime have done what they think is best for the country. They all deserve respect IMHO.

There was another time when the Science Cabinet member from China toured the computer center........spotted SS agents on the roofs of the Arch, EE and Library. The"jump car" had about a half dozen machine guns with the wire stock on the floor.

As for respect.......the position demands respect, just as rank does in the military........the person.............well that is up to each individual .