Dan Rather, the award-winning veteran news anchor, was greeted with a standing ovation at Wright State University on Tuesday, Jan. 31.<\/p>\n
Part of both the university\u2019s Honors Institute and the Presidential Lecture Series<\/a>, Rather\u2019s lecture was held in the Wright State Nutter Center Arena.<\/p>\n The theme of this year\u2019s Presidential Lecture Series and the Honors Institute is \u201cDemocracy, Politics and You.\u201d<\/p>\n The event was free to and open to the public along with the Wright State community.<\/p>\n \u201cHaving that kind of access to a historical figure, a legend like Dan Rather is just great,\u201d said Paul Leonard, a political science instructor at Wright State.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The 2016-17 Presidential Lecture Series concludes with a talk on March 30 by Jonathan Capehart<\/a>, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and member of the Washington Post editorial board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dan Rather, the award-winning veteran news anchor, was greeted with a standing ovation at Wright State University on Tuesday, Jan. 31. Continue reading