Speech: Debate Overview by Tom Brokaw E-mail
09/25/2008

The Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics hosts "An Evening with Tom Brokaw" featuring NBC News special correspondent Tom Brokaw, who will give an overview of the presidential debate and the election landscape. All free tickets have been claimed; however, simulcasts of the program will be available in Farley Hall, Room 202, and on two 14-by-18 foot HD television screens on either side of the Grove Stage. 

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Panel Discussion: 'Education Policy and the 44th U.S. President' E-mail
09/25/2008

A panel of leading educational researchers and policy experts discuss high-stakes testing, institutional accessibility, school accountability and college affordability. Hosted by the School of Education.

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Student Leaders Debate Election Issues E-mail
09/15/2008
Leaders of the College Republicans and College Democrats debate the issues in the presidential campaign to provide an opportunity for voters to gain insight into the positions of the respective candidates.
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Dealing With Disasters Discussion E-mail
09/10/2008
Sponsored by Oxfam America and the Public Interest Law Society, the panel includes John M. Barry, prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author of "Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America" (Simon & Schuster, 1997); Reilly Morse, attorney with Mississippi Center for Justice Katrina Recovery Office; Bill Quigley, human rights attorney, law professor and director of the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University in New Orleans; and Tracie L. Washington, president and CEO of the Louisiana Justice Institute.
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Dr. Daniel W. Jones, August 28, 2008 E-mail
08/28/2008

Dr. Dan Jones, immediate past president of the American Heart Association, vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the medical school at the UM Medical Center, discusses health care in America in his lecture "Health Care Disparities in the American Health Care System."

 
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