[357] Blogger/Author Meghan McCain To Speak At MTSU SpringOut

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 16, 2011
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081

BLOGGER/AUTHOR MEGHAN MCCAIN TO SPEAK AT MTSU SPRINGOUT
U.S. Sen. John McCain’s Daughter to Address LGBT Student Organization

(MURFREESBORO) – Meghan McCain, author of Dirty Sexy Politics, will speak at the kickoff for MTLambda’s SpringOut Week at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, in Room 221 of the MTSU Learning Resources Center. This event is free and open to the public.

McCain, the daughter of U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), is slated to discuss the incivility of political discourse in America, including the discourse surrounding gay rights issues. After a brief address, McCain will open the floor for questions.

A 2007 graduate of Columbia University, McCain worked on her father’s 2008 bid for the American presidency. From that experience, she created mccainblogette.com, which offered readers an insider’s view of life on the campaign trail.

Dirty Sexy Politics, a 2010 memoir of the campaign, was highly critical of the Republican Party, the conservative movement and her father’s running mate, Sarah Palin. Today, McCain writes a column for thedailybeast.com.

McCain’s appearance at MTSU is sponsored by Scholars Week and by MTLambda, a student organization which strives to support and raise awareness about the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

For more information, contact MTLambda President Brandon Farrar at president@mtlambda.org.

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ATTENTION, MEDIA: For a color jpeg of Meghan McCain, contact Gina Logue in the MTSU Office of News and Media Relations at 615-898-5081 or gklogue@mtsu.edu.


Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree—the only one in Tennessee—as a model program. Recently, MTSU unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.