Posted on 01/21/2015 6:37:40 PM PST by posterchild
Securing a ticket just to be in the same — giant — room with President Barack Obama had thousands of Kansas University students giddy on Tuesday.
Imagine the excitement of a select number getting a special spot.
“I couldn’t even breathe,” junior Ramiro Sarmiento said of receiving a message he was selected to stand in a group behind Obama when he delivers remarks at KU. “I can’t wait. I saw the State of the Union yesterday and got really excited ... for everything that’s to come in the future.”
Sarmiento is one of about 200 students across various departments chosen for preferred seating during Obama’s remarks. The president is scheduled to speak at 11:20 a.m. Thursday at Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
In collaboration with the White House, deans were given a certain number of students to invite from their respective schools, KU director of strategic communications Jack Martin said.
Sarmiento is president of KU’s Multicultural Greek Council and former president of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization. He said he was nominated to represent the Office of Multicultural Affairs, and that he’s a big Obama supporter.
Junior Eric Pahls is not an Obama supporter, politically speaking. But the journalism major, a conservative who’s been involved in Republican campaigns, said being chosen for a special spot at Obama’s speech was an honor and that he was excited for the opportunity.
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College kids are still sponge heads. I know. I used to be one.
“I cant breathe”...should put that on a T shirt /sarc
Hands up, give up your cash to higher taxes!
One of the many reasons I stay far, far away from Lawrence. I’m so glad I didn’t go there and opted for a small, private college in Kansas. (Have to admit I did party a few times up at KU).
Hmmmm...that would be in a restroom.
Rock chalk chicken hawk,
**** KU.
Will they let in islamists with swords who profess to hate homos?
What makes you think he would do anything worthwhile? He was most certainly a Democrat.
No, fuck you.
KU is a hotbed of 60’s lefties pretending to be relevant. Basically, KU sucks, and KU boosters are pretentious idiots.
Clueless idiots in the liberal bastion called Lawrence.
I graduated from KU in 1985. It was reasonably conservative back then or at least fairly sane. I brought a handgun to speech class as a prop - no one batted an eye. A classmate went back 10 years later for another degree and said he couldn’t believe how liberal and PC it had become in just a decade. I can only image how bad it is now. Liberalism ruined it, like everything else it infects.
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