As part of her visit to UMM next week, Governor Blanco has agreed to arrange several times where she will be available to meet with (FYS) students, answer questions, and discuss issues. None of these times are while our class actually meets, so I can't require you to attend any of them, but I think this is a pretty excellent and rare opportunity, and as intelligent, enthusiastic (new) members of a community of ideas, I would hope you would take advantage it.
The schedule as I understand it gives you the following opportunities (and you may attend any or all):
- A punch/cookies reception at 8:30pm in the Student Center just after her convocation talk on Tuesday.
- From 10am-noon on Wednesday in the Science Atrium (the big open space one floor up from the bookstore).
- From 2-4pm, also on Wednesday. The location for this has not yet been finalized.
If you can come to one of these, you'll probably get more out of it if you have a question or two worked out in advance. You may never get to ask it, but if there aren't many people there
everyone (including you and the Governor) will appreciate a question or two to get things going. (Long awkward silences aren't lots of fun for anyone.)
I've added all these to the calendar at the bottom left, but remember that the darn times are still Pacific, so you need to add two hours :-( !
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