Inside Iowa State: Iowa State University

January 30, 2004

Bill of Rights takes the institute stage next week

The 2004 Institute on National Affairs opens Monday, Feb. 2, with a lecture by National Rifle Association president and former Des Moines assistant police chief Kayne Robinson. Robinson will share the NRA perspective on early amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The 2004 institute will look at threats to the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the constitution adopted as a unit in 1791).

Institute events wrap up five weeks later, on March 8, when former Des Moines Register editor Geneva Overholser will talk about how newspapers ought to cover rape cases. Overholser has been at the University of Missouri School of Journalism since September 2000.

All events are free and in the Memorial Union Sun Room.

Institute on National Affairs
"Is the Bill of Rights in Jeopardy?"
Feb. 2-March 8
Sun Room, MU
4-9934

Monday, February 2

8 p.m., Lecture "An NRA Perspective," Kayne Robinson, National Rifle Association and former Des Moines assistant police chief.

Wednesday, February 4

8 p.m., Discussion, "The Patriot Act in Iowa," Charles Larson Sr., U.S. Attorney for the Northern District; Stephen O'Meara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District; Ben Stone, executive director, Iowa Civil Liberties Union; and moderator Barbara Mack, ISU Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication.

Thursday, February 5

8 p.m., Lecture, "Is the Bill of Rights in Jeopardy?" Nadine Strossen, New York School of Law, and president, American Civil Liberties Union, New York City.

Thursday, February 12

8 p.m., Lecture, "One Nation Under God? Where to Separate Church From State," Barry Lynn, executive director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Washington, D.C.

Tuesday, February 17

8 p.m., Lecture, "A Right to Be Hostile," Aaron McGruder, creator of comic strip The Boondocks.

Monday, February 23

7 p.m., Lecture, "The Right to Religious Liberty," Steve King, congressman, Iowa Fifth Congressional District.

Monday, March 8

8 p.m., Lecture, "Name the Accuser and the Accused: Reconsidering the Coverage of Rape," Geneva Overholser, University of Missouri School of Journalism, former editor of the Des Moines Register and ombudsman at the Washington Post.