Carter Town Hall
Each fall for 28 years now, world leader and former President Jimmy Carter has held a town hall meeting on Emory's campus, specifically for first-year students. The fact that Carter left office before current Emory students were even born does not dampen the thrill of being in the same room with and able to ask questions of, a historical figure in the form of a past U.S. president. Carter spends half the evening taking questions from the audience and devotes the other half speaking on topics ranging from recent elections to terrorism, to foreign policy and peanut farming.