Campus Life is making efforts to bring a high-profile guest speaker like Steven Spielberg, Drew Brees or Bill Clinton to speak at the University in April.
Those names were listed as possible options at a Student Government meeting last week by Alli Robison, chair of Campus Life’s Guest Speaker Committee.
The Campus Life budget allocated $50,000 to the committee to recruit a big name to speak on campus.
The committee has created a wish list and is currently contacting agents with the hope of narrowing the list to five potential speakers by today. Robison declined to share the list with The Daily Reveille.
The committee is comprised of representatives from 10 different campus organizations, including Student Government, LSU Ambassadors, Greek Life, Residential Life and the University Student Recreation Complex.
Robert Bostick, who represents the UREC, said in the event that the first choice for the speaker requires more than $50,000, the committee will approach some of the groups represented to cover the deficit.
The guest will speak to the public in the PMAC unless he or she makes a request to speak to a smaller group, Robison said. In this case, the speech will take place in the Union Theater. Tickets will be offered first to students and then to the public, Robison said.
“We want to reach out not just to our students, but the surrounding areas,” Robison said.
 
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