News: Virginia Tech 3,000-Person Strong World Regions Class Tries Social Media Campaign to Get In-Depth Foreign Policy Discussion with President Obama

(Sept. 6, 2012) - Loudoun County High School grad Ben Messina is just one of many area students enrolled in Virginia Tech professor John Boyer's World Regions class -- with almost 3,000 students! -- and he passed along to Viva Loudoun the social media effort the class is using in order to get President Barack Obama to come to the class and discuss American foreign policy and our country's involvement aboard:



Boyer and his students have used such efforts to their advantage in the past, scoring a Skype interview with Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi last December.

Read more on Boyer and his enthusiastic teaching style in this great article from The Chronicle of Higher Education.