Affirmative Action in College Admission

Wednesday, November 30

7:30pm
Forum North Lounge
Panel Discussion: The Historical, Legal, and Grinnell Content of Affirmative Action
Panelists: Russell K. Osgood (President; Professor of History & Political Science); Frank Thomas (Senior Counselor to the President; former VP of Diversity); Katya Gibel Azoulay (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies; Chair, American Studies Concentration)

Thursday, December 1

7:30pm
Forum South Lounge
Debate: Colleges Should Use Race & Gender as a Factor in Student Admissions
Affirmative: Adrien Wing, Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law, University of Iowa. Professor Wing specializes in race, gender, human rights, and their roles in the US and international law. She presently teaches courses on Constitutional Law and Critical Race Theory, has won numerous distinctions for her work, and is the author of over 70 publications.
Opposition: Roger Clegg, VP and General Council, Center for Equal Opportunity. Mr. Clegg currently researches legal issues related to vicil rights laws. He has written and edited extensively for popular media and conservative legal publications, including publications specifically on the subject of affirmative action in higher education. From 1982-1993 he held several positions in the US Justice Department, where he argued three cases before the Supreme Court.

Symposium: The U.S. Media, Government and Politics (September 13-15)

Monday, September 12

4:15pm
South Lounge, Forum
"Telling the Truth About Viet Nam & Iraq: Managing the Media During Wartime"
Speaker: Daniel Ellsberg (Former Department of Defense official; compiler of the Pentagon Papers; Senior Research Associate, MIT Center for International Studies)

Tuesday, September 13

4:15pm
South Lounge, Forum
"Cooperation or Jail: Judith Miller and Journalism's Ethical Dilemma"
Speaker: Jack C. Doppelt '74 (Professor/Director, Medill Graduate Global Journalism Program, and Editor & Publisher, On the Docket)

8:00pm
South Lounge, Forum
"Trench Warfare: The Construction of Narrative in the Moderm Media"
Speaker: Duncan Black (ESCHATON www.atrios,blogspot.com and www.mediamatters.org)

Wednesday, September 14

8:00pm
South Lounge, Forum
"Survivors: Newspapers in the Age of Public Mistrust"
Speaker: Margaret Sullivan (Vice President and Editor, The Buffalo News

Thursday, September 15

11:00am
Herrick Chapel
Scholar's Convocation--"Strange Bedfellows"
Speaker: Jurek Martin (former Washington Bureau Chief, The Financial Times

4:15pm
South Lounge, Forum
Panel Discussion: "Current Media Trends--Alumni Perspectives"
Panel: Elizabeth Brooke '54 (Deputy Chief, News Desk, U.S. News & World Report); David Heath '81 (Investigative Reporter, The Seattle Times); Edward McNulty '98 (The Bob Edwards Show, XML Satellite Radio); David Schechter '77 (Senior National Editor, CNN); Anne E. Stein '84 (freelance journalist)

September 19

"Work and Poverty, The New Hope Experiment"
Speaker: Greg Duncan, Edwina S. Tarry Professor, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University

September 27

"Strengthening Grinnell's Contribution to a Sustainable Future"
Speaker: Richard M. Clugston, Executive Director, Center for Respect of Life and Environment, Washington, D.C.

Symposium: Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction (November 1-3)
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Symposium on Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Monday, October 31

8:00pm
Forum North Lounge
"Rethinking the Nuclear Terrorism Threat from Iran and North Korea"
Speaker: Henry Sokolski, Executive Director, Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center

Tuesday, November 1

4:15pm
Forum South Lounge
"Al-Qaeda's Pursuit of WMD: Perspectives and Challenges"
Speaker: Roger Cressey, President, Good Harbor Consulting; formerly NSC staff

8:00pm
Forum South Lounge
"Protecting Against Terrorist WMD Use in the U.S.: Evaluating the Risks and Our Progress to Date"
Speaker: Kevin O'Prey '87, Senior Advisor, DFI Government Services

Wednesday, November 2

4:15pm
Forum South Lounge
"The Failure of U.S> Non-Proliferation Policy and What To Do About It"
Speaker: Joseph Cirincione, Director for Non-Proliferation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

8:00pm
Forum South Lounge
"Keeping WMD Out of the Hands of Terrorists
Speaker: Franklin Mille, Cohen Group; formerly National Security Council staff

Thursday, November 3

4:15pm
Forum South Lounge
"Legacy Arsenals and Terrorist Threats"
Speaker: Elizabeth Turpen, Senior Associate, Henry L. Stimson Center; Co-Director, Securityfor a New Century and Cooperative Threat Reduction programs

• Roger Cressey, former deputy White House Homeland Security Director: Terrorism and WMD--how to think about the problem
• George Perkovich, Carnegi Endowment: How to prevent terrorists from gaining access to nuclear weapons in North Korea and Iran
• Joseph Cirincione, Director Non-proliferation Project, Carnegie Endowment: Legacy nuclear arsenals
• Frank Miller, former NSC staff: Interdiction
• Elizabeth Turpin, Stimson Center: nuclear proliferation, sources, and link to terrorism
• Kevin O'Prey, DFI Government Services: terrorism and WMD in the US: Evaluating the Risks

January 25
Nick Kotz, former Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper reporter for the Washington Post, author Judgment Days, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws that Changed America will speako n the interplay between Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. in promoting civil rights legislation.