Lecture

Former dean of the college Nancy Malkiel will deliver a public lecture on Tuesday at Dartmouth as part of the College’s “Leading Voices in Higher Education” speaker series.

Former Louisiana governor and Americans Elect and Reform Party nominee for president of the United States Buddy Roemer discussed campaign reform and his own long-shot bid for the presidency on Wednesday night.

Daniel Ellsberg, who famously leaked the top secret Pentagon Papers in the midst of the Vietnam War, gave a lecture on Thursday afternoon titled “Secrets, Lies and Leaks: From the Pentagon Papers to WikiLeaks.”

The conversation also included Bart Gellman ’82, a visiting lecturer in the Wilson School and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. The pair discussed the balance between government secrecy and the First Amendment.

Surgeon, author and talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz discussed health issues that are relevant to Princeton students and steps they can take to address them on Thursday night as part of the Mental Health Awareness Week being held by the USG and Sustained Dialogue.

As the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions and the host of his own television program, “The Dr. Oz Show,” Oz was named one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People” in 2008 and is also the parent of a Princeton alumna.

To understand the state of the nation three years after “one of the most upsetting and baffling episodes of financial history,” one must examine current economic practices and regulation of the financial services industry through a historical lens. Only thus can one determine whether those involved in creating and enabling the 2008 crisis have been held accountable Gretchen Morgenson, assistant business and financial editor and columnist at the New York Times, argued before a crowd of 150 in Dodds Auditorium on Monday night.