[Peace-discuss] Re: ISS Affirmative Action Debate

[Karen Medina]

This was sent to me by a student organization. They asked me
to forward it. So here it is.

Andre Brock, one of the students arguing for affirmative
action, is a very good friend of mine.

-karen medina
---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:09:22 -0600
>From: Brian Pierce <bjpierce at uiuc.edu>  
>Subject: ISS Affirmative Action Debate  
>
>Karen,
>
>My name's Brian Pierce, I'm with the Cultural & Minority
>Affairs committee of the Illinois Student Senate.  We're
>having a debate on affirmative action and we thought AWARE
>might be interested.  If you could just forward this to your
>members, that would be cool:
>
>Affirmative Action has divided our culture and community
>almost since its inception.   In order to stimulate dialogue
>over the issue, the Illinois Student Senate is hosting a
>debate on affirmative action on Thursday, February 23 in the
>Pine Lounge of the Union at 7 PM.  The audience will be able
>to ask questions and participate in the debate, so that
>students can voice their opinions.  The event will feature a
>representative from the admissions department, who will give a
>brief presentation on the facts surrounding the issue.  This
>will be followed by the actual debate, which will have one
>professor and one student on each side.  Advocating
>affirmative action will be Professor James Anderson and Andre
>Brock, a PhD student in library and information science.
>Opposing affirmative action will be Professor James Nowlan and
>Billy Joe Mills, a senior majoring in political science and
>economics.  The debate will be moderated by the student body
>president, Josh Rohrscheib.  All students and faculty are
>welcome to attend and participate, and we hope you will join us.
>
>If you have any more question contact Zenobia Ravji, chair of
>the Illinois Student Senate Committee on Cultural and Minority
>Affairs at zravji2 at uiuc.edu   
>
>
>Thanks!
>
>--Brian Pierce