Someone asked about Dean and Vanderbilt....finally found something.

Looks like this was set up before he became chair, but they were aware he might. He had to cancel one event in Seattle this week-end, but I saw somewhere this would go on.

http://tennessean.com/nation-world/archives/05/01/65375060.shtml?Element_ID=65375060

Tuesday, 02/08/05
Dean to speak at Vanderbilt symposium

The man in line to be the Democratic Party's next leader will speak in Nashville next month. Howard Dean is scheduled to speak during Vanderbilt University's Impact Symposium at 7 p.m. March 22. Jonathan Justl, a junior economics and history major working on the symposium, said the former presidential candidate and Vermont governor was already a good fit for the lecture series' 2005 theme, ''Visions of America,'' when students started planning last fall.

Dean's expected election this weekend as chairman of the Democratic National Committee makes him an even better speaker for the event, Justl said.

Another Democratic presidential candidate last year, the Rev. Al Sharpton, and conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter also will speak during the three-day symposium. They're scheduled for March 21 at 7 and 7:45 p.m., respectively. All three speakers will appear in Langford Auditorium. Tickets are free for Vanderbilt students and employees and $10 for others. For more information, call Vanderbilt's Office of Student Activities at 322-2471.

Impact Symposium is a 41-year-old Vanderbilt lecture series known for bringing provocative speakers, including Stokely Carmichael, Robert McNamara, Margaret Thatcher and George Wallace, to campus over the years."