C-SPAN founder to interview Indiana governor during Lamb School celebration
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — C-SPAN founder and Purdue alumnus Brian Lamb will interview Gov. Mitch Daniels as part of a Sept. 29 event to celebrate the naming of the university's Brian Lamb School of Communication.
"C-SPAN's Brian Lamb Interviews Governor Mitch Daniels" is 2:30-3:15 p.m. in Stewart Center's Fowler Hall. Lamb will interview Daniels and students will have the opportunity to ask questions of both guests. The event is free, but tickets are required. Tickets are available first-come, first-served to Purdue and Ivy Tech students with a current identification card at 10 a.m. Sept. 7 and to Purdue faculty and staff and the general public at 10 a.m. Sept. 8. There will be a limit of four tickets per person. Tickets can be picked up at the Elliott Hall of Music, Stewart Center and Pao Hall box offices or by calling 765-494-3933.
The new school, which is housed in the College of Liberal Arts, was named for Lamb this summer after the Board of Trustees approved it in April.
"We are always thrilled to have Brian Lamb on campus because of his commitment to mentoring and encouraging Purdue students," said Irwin Weiser, the Justin S. Morrill Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. "This interview is an outstanding opportunity for our students to see one of the leaders in public affairs programming interview one of the country's best known governors, a man often in the national news. We anticipate this to be just the first in a number of exciting annual events hosted by the new Brian Lamb School of Communication."
Daniels was elected as the 49th governor of Indiana in 2004, in his first bid for any elected office. He is a former president of Eli Lilly and Company's North American Operations and CEO of the Hudson Institute. His roles in government include chief of staff to U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, senior adviser to President Ronald Reagan and director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and to President George W. Bush. Upon taking office, Daniels created Indiana's first OMB to look for efficiencies and cost savings, leading Indiana to its first balanced budget in eight years without a tax increase. He was re-elected in 2008 to a second and final term, receiving more votes than any candidate for any public office in the state's history. His book, "Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans," will be released Sept. 20.
Lamb, who is from Lafayette, earned his bachelor's degree in speech in 1963 and received an honorary doctorate from Purdue in 1986. He founded C-SPAN - Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network - in 1977, and the network's initial telecasts of the U.S. House of Representatives commenced in 1979. Today there are three C-SPAN networks offering around-the-clock coverage of the political process.
In 1987 Lamb designated Purdue as the original home of the C-SPAN Archives, which records, indexes and archives all C-SPAN programming for historical, educational and research uses. Now located in the Purdue Research Park and operated and entirely funded by C-SPAN, the archives records, stores and makes accessible every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, totaling more than 160,000 hours. All programs are digital and can viewed for free at https://www.c-span.org/videolibrary
The Brian Lamb School of Communication is home to 974 undergraduate majors, 120 graduate students and 34 full-time faculty members. The six areas of graduate study and research are health communication; interpersonal communication; media, technology and society; organizational communication; public relations/issue management; and rhetorical studies.
Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, 765-494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu
Sources: Irwin Weiser, 765-494-3661, iweiser@purdue.edu
Christine Sharp, director of alumni relations & special events in the College of Liberal Arts, 765-494-7884, ctsharp@purdue.edu
Note to Journalists: Journalists interested in covering the event should contact Amy Patterson Neubert, 765-494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu
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