The gates of knowledge swung open, and it was a mad rush. Students were waiting for this - the return of Look Hoos Talking. The doors for the event open 6:45 p.m. today in Old Cabell Hall. Students again will surge forward, rushing and jostling to find a seat with a view of the equally convivial School of Athens. Seven lecturers will speak, but the real event worth looking at is what students have assembled.
The first iteration of Look Hoos Talking took place last year with the initiative of Student Council President-elect Johnny Vroom, who imported this idea of TED Talks to our University. "We changed the format a little bit, made it our own, tried to make it as Jeffersonian as possible," he said. Last year, students nominated lecturers who chose their own topics. Speakers each had a time limit - 12 minutes. And a string quartet kept time for 45 minutes before then, in front of a packed audience.
The event proved as attractive this year. Students reserved the allotted 800 free tickets between 10 a.m. Thursday when the box office opened and 5:37 p.m. Stephen Nash, Co-Chair of the Student Council Academic Affairs Committee, said the waitlist process will begin first-come first-serve this morning. Vroom and Nash mentioned reasons why the program has gone so well, including marketing and past successes. They also organized the event because they thought people would come to an intellectual environment outside of the classroom, and the student body proved them right.
A program so popular shows knowledge is still exciting to students who have not forgo
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