[RAICES] Fwd: 4/7- Affirmative Action Debate

[prachee sinha]

some of you might already know about this event....sounds interesting to 
me....
take care
love and peace
prachee
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>From: Sonny Suchdev <ssuchdev at educ.umass.edu>
>Subject: 4/7- Affirmative Action Debate
>Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 12:20:52 -0500
>
>AFFIRMATIVE ACTION DEBATE: HEAR BOTH SIDES
>
>PROFESSOR MICHAEL THELWELL VS. PROFESSOR ARNOLD SILVER
>
>MONDAY, APRIL 7TH, 6-8PM
>CAMPUS CENTER, ROOM 168C
>
>*(Teachers: This is sure to be a heated and informative event -- please 
>tell
>your students!)
>
>The event will be moderated by Professor Frederick Tillis.
>
>Michael Thelwell is Professor of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst.  
>He is
>the author of several books and articles including *The Harder They Come*
>(1980) and *Duties, Pleasures, and Conflicts: Essays in Struggle* (1987).
>Currently, he is teaching the course "A History of the Civil Rights 
>Movement"
>at UMass.
>
>Arnold Silver is a retired professor of English at UMass Amherst.  He is 
>author
>of *Shortchangers* (1998), a novel that critiques 'political correctness' 
>and
>the Left on college campuses.  He has taught classes on fiction and drama 
>and
>produced a play off-Broadway.
>
>An open Question & Answer session will follow debate.  This event is 
>sponsored
>by Asian Americans for Political Action (AAPA - a subdivision of AASA), and 
>co-
>sponsored by GEO-ALANAA, the Office of ALANA Affairs, and the Radical 
>Student
>Union.
>
>For more information, call 545-2517.
>


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