I'm an alum of CU. The talk is being held at the Glenn Miller ballroom which has an interesting history.
Glenn Miller went to CU before WWII but was kicked out because of "pranks" and poor grades. After he and the Glenn Miller band became famous, and he was killed shortly after the war ended in a mysterious airplane disappearance, CU found it in their kind hearts to name a ballroom after him.
Just another bit of liberal hypocrisy.
You know what, I love trivia like this! Thanks so much for sharing. Really, no kidding. That was interesting.
OT: on pranks and getting kicked out of college..... story goes that young Wm. Randolph Hearst got himself kicked out of Harvard after he sent his Professors personalized chamber pots (in the days when people did take dumps in little pots) with the Profs’ names engraved inside on the bottom...... that bit of humor was not appreciated by the Harvard faculty.
A slightly different naming criteria than the Alfred E. Packer Cafeteria, eh?