Friday (March 20)
2 p.m. to 2:15 p.m., media availability
Hyde Hall
2:30 p.m. Weil Lecture on American Citizenship
Hill Hall
Chapel Hill
Friday (March 20)
2 p.m. to 2:15 p.m., media availability
Hyde Hall
2:30 p.m. Weil Lecture on American Citizenship
Hill Hall
Chapel Hill
Media representatives are invited to a roundtable discussion with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), who ran for president in 2004, at 2 p.m. Friday (March 20) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kerry chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee.
Members of the media also are welcome to cover Kerry’s lecture, sponsored by UNC’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities, at 2:30 p.m.
Directions and media parking: From Raleigh, take exit 273 off I-40 west onto N.C. 54 toward Chapel Hill. Go 3.8 miles and turn right onto Country Club Road. Go straight at the next two stoplights. At the second light, the road changes to Cameron Avenue. Go .3 miles to the driveway on the left before Memorial Hall (after the Old Well on the right). Park in the lot anywhere except in front of the loading dock or in coned spaces.
Walk across Cameron and continue north through campus and around Person Hall toward Franklin Street. Hill and Hyde halls will be on the left. For a map of the area, visit http://www.maps.unc.edu/ and click “central campus map.”
Sound: Audio feeds will be available at both venues.
Media briefing: Reporters are invited to sit around a table with Kerry to ask questions and discuss issues. Photographers may roam the room, away from the table enough to allow for uninterrupted discussion. Participants are encouraged to set up in the room by 2 p.m. because of the limited time available.
Lecture: Ten seats, five on either side of Hill Hall auditorium’s front row, will be reserved for media representatives. Photographers may shoot from the front of the aisles on either side of the auditorium. Because of the earlier media availability, reporters are asked not to participate in the question-and-answer session for the public after the lecture.
John Kerry contact: Jodi Seth, (202) 224-3380, jodi_seth@kerry.senate.gov
UNC News Services contact: LJ Toler, (919) 962-8589, laura_toler@unc.edu