Jimmy Carter

Yay! I got a ticket to hear Jimmy Carter speak next Wednesday. I arrived at the Zellerbach ticket office at 8 am, only to find my friend Rita had been in line since 7:30. I was about 30th. While I in line around 9 am, a guy came by claiming that it was his roommate who had written the original invitation letter and that if there was a huge turnout they would change location from Zellerbach to the Greek Theater, but my friend Karen (300 people behind me) said that some other guy had come by her part of the line claiming it was his roommate who had written the letter. I had an interesting conversation while I was waiting with a social anthropology grad student and a mechanical engineering sophomore.

As I left with my ticket at 10:15, I walked back along the line, which stretched back across Lower Sproul, snaked through the tunnel in the César Chávez Student Center, bent back down the path to Haas Pavilion, and then bent back again towards Dwinelle. There were definitely over a thousand people in line.

We have been assigned random seating, and are prevented from bringing banners or backpacks into the hall. Carter will be speaking about his latest book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.