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Conversations Project to examine voting
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The Valparaiso University Conversations Project – initiated during the last presidential election in response to the partisan political debate taking place – will return to the subject of elections during a Sept. 24 discussion that opens its new year of programming.
"Voting: Privilege, Duty or Obligation," will begin at 7 p.m. in the Christopher Center Community Room and is free and open to the public. Panelists will start a conversation exploring the history and significance of voting rights in the United States and audience members will be encouraged to share their views regarding how citizens should think about the right to vote.
Starting the conversation will be panelists Jon Costas, currently in his second term as Valparaiso's mayor and a graduate of Valpo's School of Law; Dr. Jennifer Hora, assistant professor of political science and a U.S. presidency scholar; Jane Henegar, state coordinator for the Indiana Bar Association's Project Citizen, which encourages middle and high school students to study community problems; and Zora Ludwig, a librarian at Hammond Public Library who immigrated to the U.S. with her family when she was 6 years old.
A reception following the public discussion will allow audience members to continue individual conversations with one another and the panelists.
The goal of the Conversations Project is to promote mutual education, understanding and political reconciliation through dialog, while at the same time forging connections between the University and Northwest Indiana community. The program is supported by Valparaiso's School of Law and the Valparaiso Project on Civic Reflection.
For more information about the Conversations Project, contact Jeremy Telman, associate professor of law, at (219) 465-7811, by e-mail to Jeremy.Telman@valpo.edu or online.
The next Conversations Project discussion, "What's in a Name? The VU Crusader Mascot," will take place Nov. 17.
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