A full Friday for Rather
With meetings to attend, speeches to give, Rather will be busy on campus Friday
Stewart smith
Issue date: 4/15/04 Section: Campus News
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Dan Rather, anchor of the CBS Nightly News and SHSU's most distinguished alumnus, will be paying a visit to his alma mater tomorrow to help kick off the celebration of the university's 125th anniversary.
Rather's visit to SHSU is the result of over a year's worth of planning and schedule arranging between Rather and University President James Gaertner. Paula Vernick, assistant to the president for special projects, said that Rather was eager to return to SHSU and greatly desired to be involved with the university's 125th anniversary in some way.
Rather will begin Friday with a breakfast meeting with school administrators to discuss the recent changes and improvements around the university. Specifically, according to Vernick, they will be discussing the department of mass communication's recent departure from the department of arts and sciences into the college of humanities and social sciences. Following his breakfast, Rather will then take part in an interview with the Texas Foundation for the Arts who, in association with Houston-based Sunset Productions, will be producing a documentary on SHSU. The documentary is set to broadcast on public television in October.
At 11 a.m., Rather will give a lecture in the Beto Criminal Justice Center Killinger Auditorium. All students and faculty are invited and welcome. As far as the topic of his lecture, that's entirely up to Rather.
"We wanted to let him decide," said Vernick. "We wanted him to open up a little and be able to have fun. We wanted it to be a little free form and not confine him to the constraints (of a predetermined topic)." Vernick reiterated that the entire university community is invited and that live audio-visual coverage will be provided for an overflow audience in the Criminal Justice Center in the courtroom, the lobby, the Strecher Room (A-204), the Bates Room (A-206) and the Flag Room (A-208). Additionally, Cable Channel 7 will provide a live broadcast of Rather's presentation. The doors to the Killinger Auditorium will open for seating at 10:15.
Rather's visit to SHSU is the result of over a year's worth of planning and schedule arranging between Rather and University President James Gaertner. Paula Vernick, assistant to the president for special projects, said that Rather was eager to return to SHSU and greatly desired to be involved with the university's 125th anniversary in some way.
Rather will begin Friday with a breakfast meeting with school administrators to discuss the recent changes and improvements around the university. Specifically, according to Vernick, they will be discussing the department of mass communication's recent departure from the department of arts and sciences into the college of humanities and social sciences. Following his breakfast, Rather will then take part in an interview with the Texas Foundation for the Arts who, in association with Houston-based Sunset Productions, will be producing a documentary on SHSU. The documentary is set to broadcast on public television in October.
At 11 a.m., Rather will give a lecture in the Beto Criminal Justice Center Killinger Auditorium. All students and faculty are invited and welcome. As far as the topic of his lecture, that's entirely up to Rather.
"We wanted to let him decide," said Vernick. "We wanted him to open up a little and be able to have fun. We wanted it to be a little free form and not confine him to the constraints (of a predetermined topic)." Vernick reiterated that the entire university community is invited and that live audio-visual coverage will be provided for an overflow audience in the Criminal Justice Center in the courtroom, the lobby, the Strecher Room (A-204), the Bates Room (A-206) and the Flag Room (A-208). Additionally, Cable Channel 7 will provide a live broadcast of Rather's presentation. The doors to the Killinger Auditorium will open for seating at 10:15.