I have no idea if Virginia Tech is cool with people wandering around its campus anymore, but I'll be there on Friday afternoon along with two pals of mine. We'll be part of the alumni speakers series, and we'll be addressing "Challenges, Opportunities, and Risk Taking: Building A Communication Career."
Interested? Our panel's at TORG 2150 from 2:30-3:45 p.m.
And just in case I wasn't feeling old enough ... I read the location and was like, "Torgerson? You mean like the president who stepped in when I was a college senior?" And then I saw where it was and felt even older, because an entire building was put into an area that I used to cut across as I raced from the CT to class.
So, yes -- please swing by on Friday to view a living fossil. Introduce yourself afterward too!
I can tell you Virginia isn't so cool with people just wandering around anymore. I didn't make the connection when we were down there this weekend, but my husband and I tried to enter Ruffner Hall, home of the Curry School of Education, and the building where I spend pretty much all of my 1.5 years there, and it now requires an ID swipe to enter. We were able to enter the Bookstore and the Student Center, of course, and probably Alderman Library, although we didn't try.
It's a sad thing.
Posted by: Michelle | 2008.03.25 at 10:50
I visited my alma mater recently, too, and was appalled that there is now a Mary Gates building. (That would be Bill Gates's mom.)
I knew that Michelle was a Virginia alum, but somehow it escaped me that you were as well. Increased campus security is probably not directly related to last year's spree killing--the UW is locked down a lot tighter these days as well, but not in response to any specific tragedy. It's a society-wide sea change, I think.
Students, like most young people, remain largely oblivious to danger and will still let you into just about any building if you're not too crazed-looking.
Posted by: cirocco | 2008.03.25 at 13:19
Small clarification: we are both alumnae of Virginia's universities, but Michelle went to University of Virginia; I was graduated from Virginia Tech. Both fine schools, though!
Posted by: Lisa S. | 2008.03.25 at 13:33
Have fun Lisa! I would come see your talk but I am flying out to Arizona on Friday...damn. Be sure to go have a beer at the Cellar. If you run into Dr. John Tedesco (Comm. Prof), give him a huge hello for me!
Posted by: molly | 2008.03.26 at 06:43
Heh. The nice thing about being out of school for mumblety-teen years is that you can say things like "Both fine schools!" about UVA and Tech without saying it through your teeth. (I went to W&M, where the athletic department was effectively purely theoretical in the big sports, and yet I still remember there being strong feelings, mostly articulated in the form of rooting for Virginia Tech, against UVa. Why the one over the other, I couldn't possibly tell you.)
Posted by: SP | 2008.03.26 at 19:55