Monday, October 1st - Friday, October
5th
Keynote S peaker - Randall Kennedy '77
-
The Racial Profiling Controversy
Monday, October 1st - 4:30pm
McCosh 50
Former Princeton University Trustee and
current Harvard University Law Professor has agreed to give the Keynote
address for this lecture series. Mr. Kennedy served as a clerk for Judge
Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals and for Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall. This well known- scholar and author of Race, Crime
and the Law, has been a featured guest on "The Today Show," "Nightly News
with Tom Brokaw," and the National Public Radio shows "Fresh Air" and
"The Connection," for his work dealing with contracts, freedom of expression,
and the race relations' law.
Lecture - Michael Vatis '85 -
Fighting Terrorism in a Constitutional
Democracy: Winning the War Without Losing our Rights
Tuesday,
October 2nd - 4:30pm
McCosh 50
Mr. Vatis will discuss the
spectrum of government
action necessary to win the war against terrorism,
including intelligence gathering, law enforcement,
military operations, diplomacy, economic sanctions. As
many elected leaders and American citizens call for
curtailing civil liberties in order to enhance our
security, Mr. Vatis will consider whether it is
possible to win the war against terrorism without
forsaking the rights and freedoms that define our
polity and our way of life.
Michael Vatis '85 is the Director
of the Institute for
Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College, a
government-funded research institute focusing on the
development of counterterrorism technology and the
examination of counterterrorism policy issues. Mr.
Vatis formerly served as a senior official in the FBI,
the Department of Justice, and Department of Defense,
with responsibility for a wide range of national
security and criminal justice issues. At the FBI, he
founded and led the National Infrastructure Protection
Center, an interagency organization dedicated to
protecting the nation's critical infrastructures (such
as transportation, communications, power, emergency
services, and government operations) from physical and
cyber attack. At the Justice Department, he was the
Associate Deputy Attorney General responsible for
national security matters, including counterterrorism,
counterintelligence, defense issues, cyber security,
and foreign policy, and a founder and Deputy Director
of the Executive Office for National Security. At the
Defense Department, he served as a Special Counsel in
the Office of the Secretary of Defense, advising the
Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary, and General
Counsel on sensitive legal and policy issues.
Lecture - Professor Peter Singer -
Voluntary Euthanasia: Physician-Assisted Suicide
and the Sanctity of Human Life
Wednesday, October
3rd - 4:30pm
McCosh 10
Professor Singer will address
the topic of euthanasia. The DeCamp Professor in the University Center
of Human Values will address one of the most controversial topics in bioethics
and the legalities which make it such a complex issue.
Whig-Cliosophic Society Senate Debate
-
The Honor Code
Wednesday, October
3rd - 8:00pm
McCosh 50
The Whig-Cliosophic Society plans to hold a debate over Princeton's 107-year
old Honor Code.
Visual Arts - Anthony Papa
A Prison-Art
Exhibit.
Thursday, October
4th- 4:30pm
Frist 307
Anthony Papa is a noted advocate against the war on drugs, using hisexperience in prison and acclaim as an artist as vehicles of protest. In 1985, Anthony Papa owned a radio repair business in the Bronx. He had a young daughter and bowled in a league in Yonkers. Business was slow, and one of his teammates asked if he wanted to make a quick $500 by delivering an envelope of cocaine, Papa agreed. That mistake cost him twelve years in Sing Sing prison. In prison he discovered his ability as an artist and his breakthrough came in 1994, when his self-portrait, 15 Years to Life, was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan. Soon after New York Governor George Pataki granted him executive clemency. Mr. Papa has been interviewed by a wide range of print and broadcast media, including The New York Times, The New York Law Journal, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, Court TV and A & E, among others. He has appeared on nationally syndicated talk shows and is a frequent public speaker and college lecturer on critical criminal justice issues. His work can be seen on the web at www.15yearstolife.com
Movie - Dead Man Walking-
Thursday,
October 4th- 8:00pm
Frist Theatre
The University Film Organization
(UFO) will air the film for the Ideas In Action week. This motion picture
about capital punishment is one of the most controversial films of the
last decade. Based on the nonfiction book by Sister Helen Prejean the
film stars Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, the movie explores the relationship
between a rapist/murder and his spiritual advisors.
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