It’s Friday morning and Sting is reportedly teaching a class on campus sometime before tonight’s show at the Kohl Center. That’s mildly interesting, even if his concert sold only 5,000 out of 7,000 seats.
We’re told only campus media are allowed in the lecture – a reporter and photographer from each of the two student newspapers. Who gets to hand-pick that? “Usually the professors do have control over the classroom and who gets in,” says University Communication’s Liz Beyler. “I would have loved a pool arrangement, but (Sting’s) folks were very insistent he didn’t want it to be a media frenzy.”