Coverage Details Related to Friday Lecture at UMaine
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney will visit the University of Maine on Friday, May 9 to deliver UMaine’s fourth William S. Cohen Lecture. Mulroney, who was prime minister from 1984-1993, will discuss “Canada and the U.S.: Friends and Neighbors in the Post Sept. 11 World.” The talk is scheduled for 11 a.m. in the Maine Center for the Arts.
Media parking has been set aside in the parking lot directly across the street from the MCA’s marquee sign. The last row of seats the the Hutchins Concert Hall lower level has been reserved for reporters covering the event. Journalists should enter the hall through the door nearest to the sound booth.
A UMaine video camera will be placed in the center of the lower level, to provide a head-and-shoulders shot, with certain cutaways, of the event. The output of that camera will be fed to an audio/video mult box that will be available for use by television photographers. The audio, which may also be accessed by radio reporters and print journalists who wish to have a recording of the remarks, will come directly from the hall’s sound system. Photographers will also be free to shoot their own cutaways from the balcony and the doorways at the end of each aisle on the lower level.
Prime Minister Mulroney and William S. Cohen, the former Secretary of Defense and U.S. Senator for whom the lecture series is named, will be available to reporters at a news conference approximately 20 minutes after the program ends. That news conference will be held in the Bodwell Lounge, on the second floor of the Maine Center for the Arts.