Recent visitors to SIU include:

 The president crowd-dives for handshakes at SIU.
Bill Clinton,
former United States President

Studs Terkel,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author,
radio talkshow host, actor

Seamus Heaney,
poet, 1995 Nobel Prize winner in Literature

Nikki Giovanni,
poet

David Horowitz,
conservative commentator

Whoa, Nadine!
Professor Straussen addresses another
overflow crowd at Lesar Law School Auditorium.
Nadine Strossen,
author and American Civil
Liberties Union president

Elie Wiesel,
Nobel Peace Prize winner and
author of the Night trilogy

Carl Bernstein,
Watergate journalist

Oliver North,
conservative talkshow host

Julian Bond,
NAACP board chairman

Nikki Giovanni,
poet
The Rev. Jesse Jackson revs up and
registers voters outside SIU's
Shryock Auditorium.

Morris Dees, the nation's top
anti-hate-group legal expert,
addresses an overflow crowd at
SIU's Lesar Law School Auditorium.

Pete Seeger,
folksinger, civil-rights and anti-war activist

Morris Dees,
anti-racism crusader and Southern Poverty Law Center founder

Coretta Scott King,
civil rights leader, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Jesse Jackson,
civil rights leader and former presidential candidate

Gwendolyn Brooks,
Pulitzer Prize winner and Illinois’s late poet laureate
Folk singer Pete Seeger, who
endured the McCarthy blacklists
of the 1950s to become
a civil rights and antiwar activist.
Coretta Scott King, civil-rights
leader and wife of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
speaks at the SIU Arena.

Brian Mulroney,
former Canadian Prime Minister

C. Everett Koop
former Surgeon General

James Fallows,
author, former editor of U.S. News and World Report, Atlantic Monthly columnist

P.J. O'Rourke
conservative humorist, Rolling Stone’s Foreign Affairs Desk

R.U. Sirius,
author, Wired magazine forefather, and cyberliberties crusader

John Updike,
poet and novelist, author of Brazil
Cyber-legend R.U. Sirius.
Former Canadian Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney.
Jello Biafra,
punk legend and First Amendment activist

Ramsey Clark,
author and star of the Evil Dead trilogy
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George McGovern,
former U.S. Senator and 1972 Democrat presidential nominee
Jello Biafra, former lead
singer of the Dead
Kennedys and a
First Amendment crusader.
George McGovern,
the Democrat who
ran against Richard
Nixon in 1972.

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