[Vision2020] Upcoming Event

[Melynda Huskey]

Spring Speaker Announced for WSU Ethics Interest Group


The WSU Ethics Interest Group would like to announce that Mark Potok from 
the Southern Poverty Law Center has agreed to be the group's spring speaker. 
  His talk will be Friday, Feb. 6 from 3:00-5:00 pm, location TBA.


Mr. Potok is Director of Publications and Information for the Southern 
Poverty Law Center's Klanwatch Project, and Editor and Supervisor of the 
SPLC's quarterly investigative magazine, Intelligence Report.  Before 
joining SPLC, Potok worked as Southwest correspondent of USA Today, where 
among other topics, he was the newspaper's primary reporter on the rise of 
the extreme right in recent years, as well as on racial conflict in the U.S.


Born in Paris, France and raised in Vermont, Potok graduated with honors 
with a Political Science degree from the U. of Chicago.  Potok recently 
testified before the U.S. Senate on issues of hate on the internet, and 
before the United Nations on high commission refugees.


Potok will speak at UI and WSU on his research on the League of the South 
and other neoconfederate organizations.  The timing coincides with the 
presence of Steve Wilkins, connected with such groups, at a Christ Church 
sponsored conference to be held at UI.


For more information, contact:
Gail J. Stearns, Director
The Common Ministry at WSU
509-332-2611
gstearnscm@pullman.com


or Susan J. Kilgore, Associate Director
General Education Program
Washington State University
335-1339
skilgore@wsu.edu

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