He just seems really personable. Barrigan agreed, and pointed out similar devotion on campus. Solange Todd will also read. These students received literary awards from Mills last year. Also, Mills' own jazz floutist Kymberly E. Jackson will play between performances.
Tickets are ten dollars general admission and five dollars for students.
Other students fill empty seats as minutes dwindle before takeoff. Payne greets each student with an enthusiastic hello, asking about their day in Berkeley. Everyone greets her by her name, breathless, worried that they had almost missed their only ride back to campus. She starts the van and winds through the hectic post-football game Berkeley traffic. Habitual riders come to know the best places to sit on the van, the roads and bends of the ride and, most importantly, they develop relationships with the drivers.