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National political leaders share MC stage to discuss
civil liberties, social issues
Bay Buchanan,
president of The American Cause, will share the microphones on Wednesday
with ACLU President Nadine Strossen as Manchester College students
tackle difficult dialogues.
For the College’s
biennial Discussion Days, Buchanan and Strossen will lead two sessions
on March 7, accompanied by panels of faculty and students:
11 a.m. – Civil
Liberties in a Time of War, in Cordier Auditorium
2 p.m. –
Controversial Social Issues, in Wine Recital Hall
At 4 p.m.,
Strossen will moderate a debate on the campus student speech code.
Students also have the option of attending a 9 a.m. Wednesday slide show
in Wine Recital Hall of controversial art prepared by Ejenobo Oke,
assistant professor of art.
The public is
invited to all Discussion Days programs, which are free. Students
receive convocation credit for every session they attend; no classes are
scheduled for Wednesday so the entire campus can focus on the
conversations.
Discussion Days
begin Monday, March 5, with a 10 a.m. all-campus convocation about
difficult dialogues moderated by Annie Clark, program coordinator for
On
Earth Peace. At 4 p.m. is a discussion about bio-engineered food, in
Flory Auditorium of the Science Center. Public funding of the arts is
the topic of a 12:30 p.m. Thursday, March 8 program, in Flory
Auditorium.
Angela “Bay”
Buchanan, former U.S. Treasurer under President Ronald Reagan, promotes
traditional conservative issues as a founder of
The American Cause with
her brother, former presidential hopeful Patrick Buchanan. She is a political analyst for CNN, for
Good Morning America and
co-anchored Equal Time, a
political talk show initially on CNBC, then on MSNBC. She addressed
Manchester College students last spring.
Nadine Strossen
of the American Civil Liberties Union spoke last fall at Manchester. She
has written, lectured and practiced law extensively in the areas of
constitutional law, civil liberties and international human rights. She
authored Defending Pornography:
Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights, a
New York Times Notable Book.
Manchester
College offers campus-wide Discussion Days every other year to augment a
rich program of convocations, lectures and
colloquia
designed to spark conversations and prepare students for difficult
dialogues. For more about the college, visit
www.manchester.edu
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