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WhiteTara

(30,227 posts)
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 09:04 PM Mar 2014

Condoleezza Rice to speak in Fayetteville

http://www.thecitywire.com/node/31946

Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state under President George W. Bush, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, in Barnhill Arena at the University of Arkansas.

The lecture is free, open to the public, and no tickets are needed to attend, according to the UA release. The event is part of the student-funded Distinguished Lecture Series at the university.

Barnhill Arena will be open at 5:30 p.m. for people who are able to arrive early. Free parking will be available after 5 p.m. for those attending the lecture in lot 44, the Stadium Avenue parking garage, and the Baum Stadium East parking lot, on south Razorback Road.

University Transit and the lecture series committee will provide bus shuttle service from Baum East for people attending the Rice event only. Return shuttle service will also be available.

Cameras and personal items will be checked. Pocket knives, large bags, backpacks, strollers, baggage, signs, banners, posters and noise-makers will not be permitted inside the arena.

Short PR piece...Okay my Arkie Friends...see you in Fayetteville with red paint hands? No posters, wear gloves?
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Condoleezza Rice to speak in Fayetteville (Original Post) WhiteTara Mar 2014 OP
We had Karl Rove in Iowa City about ten years ago rurallib Mar 2014 #1
Condoleeza Rice - At the time our country was attacked ... JEFF9K Mar 2014 #2

rurallib

(63,293 posts)
1. We had Karl Rove in Iowa City about ten years ago
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 09:21 PM
Mar 2014

about half the audience was there to protest. I can't remember what all took place other than standing with my back to him for a while before the police escorted us out.
ETA - good luck and report back

JEFF9K

(1,935 posts)
2. Condoleeza Rice - At the time our country was attacked ...
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 09:35 PM
Mar 2014

Condoleeza Rice - At the time our country was attacked ... her job was preventing our country from being attacked. Then she got promoted. How Republican!!

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