Condoleezza Rice to Speak at UA
by February 11, 2014 8:48 am 83 views
Former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice will speak at the University of Arkansas on March 5, the school announced Tuesday.
The lecture, part of the UA’s Distinguished Lecture Series, is free and open to the public, and no tickets are needed to attend.
The program will begin at 7 p.m. inside Barnhill Arena, the same time the UA men’s basketball team will play a home game inside Bud Walton Arena.
In an effort to reduce traffic, the doors to Barnhill Arena will open at 5:30 p.m. for those who are able to arrive early.
“We are very excited to have Dr. Rice speaking on campus,” Tyler Priest, co-chair of the DLS committee, said in a news release. “We know there is a great deal of interest among students as well as throughout the community. We want to be sure that everyone who wants to hear her speak is able to, so we are working hard to make it as easy and convenient as possible to attend this important event.”
Committee members have been working with UA Transit and Parking to insure that free parking will be available after 5 p.m. in Lot 44, the Stadium Avenue parking garage and the Baum Stadium east lot on South Razorback Road.
Free shuttle bus service will be available from Baum Stadium to Barnhill Arena.
Rice, secretary of state from 2005 to 2009, has been a professor of political science at Stanford since 2009.
Rice also served as President George W. Bush’s assistant to the president for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) from January 2001-2005, the first woman to hold the position.