Barack Obama appears Dec. 5
MOUNT VERNON — Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama will speak about the importance of community service and take questions at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, at Cornell College’s Small Multi-Sport Center. Doors open at 11 a.m.
There is no cost to attend the speech; individuals will sign in upon arrival to enter the gym.
Visitor parking will be available at the Small Multi-Sport Center parking lot. Additional parking is available throughout other campus parking lots. Please contact RJ Holmes, (319) 895-4574, or rholmes@cornellcollege.edu, to request accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
For more information, visit www.Iowa.BarackObama.com or call (319) 329-5954.
The Small Multi-Sport Center, including the Hilltop Fitness Club, will be closed on Wednesday, December 5 until 2:30 p.m. to allow for the operations of Senator Obama’s speech. Doors to the gymnasium for the event will open at 11 a.m.
Parking by Cornell faculty, staff, and students in the Small Multi-Sport Center will be limited beginning on Tuesday night, December 4. All students, faculty, and staff who normally park in the spaces between the Small Multi-Sport Center and the football field are asked to move their vehicles to other campus parking lots through Wednesday, December 5 at 3 p.m. Parking behind the visitor section of the football field and west of the baseball diamond will remain open. Students are encouraged to move vehicles to the parking lots behind Rood House, by Facilities Management, and New Hall. Faculty/staff may park behind McWethy Hall or behind The Commons.
Sodexho Food Service will maintain regular hours on Wednesday, December 5. Lunch will open at 11 a.m. as normal. Students planning on attending the speech in the Small Multi-Sport Center are reminded that carry-out is available during breakfast hours, between 10 a.m. and 10:45 a.m., and at 11 a.m. Food will not be allowed inside the gymnasium.
Cornell College does not endorse any candidate seeking elected office or any political party. The college does support critical thinking and analysis of political candidates by its students, faculty, and staff, and encourages them to become civically engaged in the American democratic process.
Cornell College, a vibrant liberal arts college in Mount Vernon, Iowa, seeks to educate its students and community about the 2008 U.S. Presidential election process. Cornell’s mission is to sustain “a community devoted to liberal learning and democratic values,” and to that end, the college encourages student participation in the state of Iowa’s first-in-the-nation Presidential Caucuses. Throughout the election season, Cornell College will invite all candidates for the Presidency of the United States of America to visit the historic Hilltop campus.
