BRIAN LAMB, president and founder of C-Span

Lamb(once awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom), spent an hour interviewing us. Each student would come up to the mike, introduce him- or herself and he would interrogate each one in his own inimitable style that, as I recall, was brilliantly spoofed on SNL one time. They seemed to really like it. His questions included: What is the most interesting thing you’ve seen thus far? Why did you come here? Why do you study philosophy? What do you think of Barack Obama? Why do you care about Darfur? Do you want to live in D.C.? Why or why not? I gotta ask you about that tie (a Barack Obama tie). Where do you think you’ll be in ten years? What are your expectations for this new president? What do you read? Tell us something about your country (for those from other countries) that we don’t know.