CSUMB students give Obama high marks

The Herald's Kevin Howe at CSUMB watching the inauguration:
"That man is an amazing orator."

That was CSU-Monterey Bay senior Megan Williams' assessment following President Barack Obama's inaugural speech Tuesday, an event watched live on big-screen television by several hundred students and faculty who gathered at the university's World Theater.

"It was a great speech." Her major is "emergent media narrativology," Williams said, and she'd give Obama an A-plus grade.

So would Adriane Tabag, a junior majoring in integrated studies at CSUMB. "It was very inspirational. I personally found it a good way to start the presidency."

She came away, she said, with the hope that the inauguration speech will unite the nation and "bring us out of our troubles."

Global studies and Japanese language major Chris Wolf was a bit more critical. "I'd give it an 8.5 or 9 on a scale of 10."

Wolf said he came out to the World Theater in response to an e-mail sent to students "to be part of history. And the free continental breakfast had something to do with it."