{"id":39988,"date":"2015-02-16T02:32:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T02:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39988"},"modified":"2015-02-16T02:35:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T02:35:16","slug":"obama-meets-with-10-unsuspecting-students-for-hourlong-roundtable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39988","title":{"rendered":"Obama meets with 10 unsuspecting students for hourlong roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2015\/02\/13\/obama-meets-with-10-unsuspecting-students-for-hourlong-roundtable\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Obama meets with 10 unsuspecting students for hourlong roundtable<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Stanford Daily<\/a><br \/>\nStanford University, Palo Alto, California<br \/>\n2015-02-13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:vxu@stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Victor Xu<\/strong><\/a>, Desk Editor<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"502\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2015\/02\/13\/obama-meets-with-10-unsuspecting-students-for-hourlong-roundtable\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/obama_vicki.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Vicki Niu \u201918 (right) was one of 10 students who participated in an hourlong roundtable with President Barack Obama on Friday afternoon. (SAM GIRVIN\/The Stanford Daily)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Rio LaVigne \u201915 signed up to meet several White House officials after the morning session of today\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_security\" target=\"_blank\">cybersecurity<\/a> summit. She did not, however, expect to meet <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a group of 10 students with interests in cybersecurity was chosen by various Stanford professors and academics to potentially attend a roundtable meeting with \u201csenior White House officials.\u201d It was not until yesterday afternoon that the meeting was confirmed. And it was not until after Obama\u2019s speech, in a back room of Memorial Auditorium, that the students figured out that they might be meeting the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe walked into the room and pretty quickly noticed there was a nametag in front of every seat except one,\u201d LaVigne said. \u201cThe table\u2019s a horseshoe shape, and the one seat that was missing was the one in the very back in the center. It was like, \u2018Hmm, okay. That\u2019s interesting. I wonder who\u2019s going to sit there. Someone who doesn\u2019t need a nametag?\u2019\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2015\/02\/13\/obama-meets-with-10-unsuspecting-students-for-hourlong-roundtable\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama meets with 10 unsuspecting students for hourlong roundtable The Stanford Daily Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 2015-02-13 Victor Xu, Desk Editor Vicki Niu \u201918 (right) was one of 10 students who participated in an hourlong roundtable with President Barack Obama on Friday afternoon. (SAM GIRVIN\/The Stanford Daily) Rio LaVigne \u201915 signed up to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,2895,8,26,20],"tags":[2772,19355],"class_list":["post-39988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-the-stanford-daily","tag-victor-xu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}