Dan Rather, the award-winning veteran news anchor, was greeted with a standing ovation at Wright State University on Tuesday, Jan. 31.
Part of both the university’s Honors Institute and the Presidential Lecture Series, Rather’s lecture was held in the Wright State Nutter Center Arena.
The theme of this year’s Presidential Lecture Series and the Honors Institute is “Democracy, Politics and You.”
The event was free to and open to the public along with the Wright State community.
“Having that kind of access to a historical figure, a legend like Dan Rather is just great,” said Paul Leonard, a political science instructor at Wright State.
During his visit to Wright State, Rather also met with political science students, discussing previous presidential elections and the use of social media in politics.
The 2016-17 Presidential Lecture Series concludes with a talk on March 30 by Jonathan Capehart, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and member of the Washington Post editorial board.
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