U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will deliver the keynote address for the Sept. 30 kickoff of the Wilson School's 75th anniversary celebrations, University officials confirmed Monday evening.
"I cannot imagine a better person to launch our 75th anniversary celebrations," Dean of the Wilson School Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 said in a statement.
Rice exemplifies the values the Wilson School hopes to instill in its students, according to Slaughter, and she "is currently shaping policy on many of the most important issues of our time."
President Tilghman also offered words of praise for the secretary of state.
"Secretary Rice left the position of provost at one of our peer institutions to serve our government at the highest levels," Tilghman said, referring to Rice's prior service at Stanford, "and this visit will give our students and others an opportunity to engage her in conversation about some of the major issues for which she has responsibility."
A lottery for student, faculty and staff tickets will begin Wednesday at 9 a.m. University officials were unable to say exactly how many tickets will be available to students, as exact breakdowns are yet to be confirmed. Jadwin Gymnasium, where Rice will deliver her lecture, seats approximately 3,500.
Steven Barnes, the Wilson School's spokesman, also confirmed Monday evening that Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid M. Kasuri will deliver a lecture at 6 p.m. today titled "Pakistan's Role in a Changing World."
Kasuri, who previously served as Pakistan's special envoy to the United Kingdom and the United States, will be speaking in Dodds Auditorium.
The news that Rice will be speaking resolves last week's confusion on the issue.
Though Wilson School students received an email last week saying that Rice would be speaking, Princeton officials declined to confirm anything beyond saying that the secretary had been invited. The email statement was subsequently rescinded.
On Monday morning, however, Slaughter sent an email marked "urgent" to the Wilson School's undergraduates, in which she said she was "delighted" to announce that Rice would be speaking.
In her email, Slaughter invited Wilson School students to "preregister" for tickets to the event, which are nontransferable to other students.
Rice is the third current or former secretary of state to speak at Princeton in the past two years.
In February 2004, Rice's predecessor, Colin Powell, delivered the keynote address at a conference celebrating the 100th birthday of George F. Kennan '25.
In November 2004, George Shultz '42, Ronald Reagan's secretary of state, delivered an address and accepted the Whig-Cliosophic Society's James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service on campus.
Both Powell and Shultz delivered speeches supporting President Bush's foreign policy.
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