Re: [Mpls] Wellstone memorial

[Ghost]

My guess is they chose the venue for the same reason I would have chosen it for such a tightly-watched, televised gathering: if you choose a space which may be even a bit too large, you have empty seats & the impact of the event's emotions are lessened; if you choose a slightly undersized space, you guarantee filling all the seats to capacity and pack people in shoulder to shoulder, which increases the feeling of excitement, unity, etc. When you're running any type of event where you want to create excitement about a person or an issue, you want it to be SRO. Whether they consciously note it or not, people react to that as "Wow - there's a LOT of support for _______, this is great. I think I'll _______, too." I'm sure the organizers of the memorial are folks for whom this principle is second nature. When you saw the results, the coverage really looked phenomenal. I don't think this would have been the case if they had people spread all over heck & back in one of the large arenas.

Roxana Orrell
Central


On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 08:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Message: 15
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:03:10 -0600
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Wellstone memorial
From: Steve Kotvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Emilie Quast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Perhaps it was free. Maybe because it was available. Maybe because Paul was
a graduate of the U.
--
Steve Kotvis
Kenwood

From: Emilie Quast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:47:32 -0600
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Mpls] Wellstone memorial

Does anyone know why they chose Williams Arena instead of Target Center or
the dome? Traffic was almost in a gridlock on University Avenue by 5:30.
I'd think either the Dome or the Center would have been full if they'd used
them.

Emilie Quast
SE Como

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