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10/1/01

TWO SPEAKERS AT SLU TO DISCUSS LIBERAL EDUCATION 

CANTON - Scholars Dinesh D'Souza and Bruce Kimball will be 
keynote speakers for the 2001 Hays and Margaret Crimmel Colloquium on 
Education at St. Lawrence University. The event will take place 
on Wednesday, October 17, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 123 of the Griffiths 
Arts Center; it is open to the public, free of charge. 
	D'Souza is a research scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, 
and author of a number of books, including Illiberal Education, The End of 
Racism and Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader. 
His newest is called The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of 
Techno-Affluence. He served as senior domestic policy analyst in the White 
House from 1987 to 1988. His topic is "The Problem of Multiculturalism."
	Kimball is a professor in the Warner Graduate School of Education 
and Human Development at the University of Rochester. He is at work on a 
two-volume book titled Voices in the Liberal Arts Tradition: A Documentary 
History His topic is "The Disputed Origins of Liberal Education and the 
Origin of Recent Disputes."
	The Crimmel Colloquium was established at St. Lawrence in 1996 by 
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy Henry H. Crimmel, in memory of his parents. 
Its purpose is to bring to campus speakers to address issues of fundamental 
importance to the liberal arts college and to liberal education, especially 
those articulated and examined in Crimmel's 1993 book The Liberal Arts 
College and the Idea of Liberal Education: The Case for Radical Reform.

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