MEDIA ADVISORY

TO:                     News Directors and Education Reporters

FROM:                 University Relations

SUBJECT:            UAF to Host Academic Freedom Lecture

LOCATION:          Schaible Auditorium on the UAF campus

DATE & TIME:     Monday, March 11, 2002 at 7 p.m.

Alan Charles Kors, founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, will present a public lecture entitled, "The Betrayal of Liberty on the American Campus," on Monday, March 11 at 7 p.m. The presentation will take place in Schaible Auditorium on the UAF campus.

The lecture will be followed by a debate on speech codes, cultural sensitivity, freedom of speech in a time of war and other "hot button" issues.

Kors is known for his defense of free speech in the famous "water buffalo" case where University of Pennsylvania freshman Eden Jacobowitz was accused of racism. Currently, Kors is defending a pro-Palestinian University of South Florida professor, Sami Al-Arian, who faces the prospect of termination because of his alleged terrorist sympathies.

FIRE is a nonprofit education foundation devoted to free speech, individual liberty, academic, religious and other freedoms. The University of Alaska Fairbanks Graduate School and the Northern Studies program are sponsoring the lecture.

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Note to Editors: Kors will be available for interviews Monday from 11 a.m. - noon. Please call for an appointment.

CONTACT: Judith Kleinfeld, Professor of Northern Studies and President of the Alaska Association of Scholars at (907) 474-5266, or UAF Public Information Officer Carla Browning at (907) 474-7778 or visit the FIRE Web site at http://www.thefire.org.

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