Berkeley - William J. Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States,
will speak about the impacts of globalization in an address at the University
of California, Berkeley at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29. Clinton will
be welcomed by California Gov. Gray Davis.
Following his formal address at Zellerbach Hall, Clinton will participate
in a conversation on the Zellerbach stage with Orville Schell, dean
of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
The event marks the latest in a long line of visits to UC Berkeley
by distinguished national and world leaders who have delivered speeches
on issues of importance.
U.S. presidents who have visited the campus include President John
F. Kennedy. His 1962 Charter Day address before 90,000 people at UC
Berkeley's Memorial Stadium remains the largest and one of the most
memorable public events in the campus's history.
The first president to come to the campus was Benjamin Harrison,
who arrived by carriage in 1891. Other presidents who have visited
UC Berkeley include Harry S. Truman in 1948, Herbert Hoover in 1926
and 1935, Woodrow Wilson in 1919, William Howard Taft in 1909 and 1915,
and Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 and 1911.
Bruce Cain, director of UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies
and a political science professor, said the tradition of addresses
by heads of state and by national and international political leaders
at UC Berkeley reflects the campus's serious interest in promoting
public discussion of important issues of the day.
"If there's any campus in the country identified with thinking about
politics," he said, "it's us."
Tomorrow's event is being sponsored by the office of Chancellor Robert
M. Berdahl and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, in association
with Cal Performances and City Arts & Lectures.
