A new student group, the Ideas in Action will kick off this afternoon a series of lectures concerning justice in America.
This afternoon's speaker, Randall Kennedy '77, a Harvard Law School professor and a specialist on race and the law, will speak in McCosh 50 at 4:30 p.m. on the issue of racial profiling in America in light of the attacks on Sept. 11.
Kennedy, a former Princeton trustee, has much experience in the legal world, having clerked for Judge Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals and for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Kennedy originally had planned to lecture on racial profiling at Princeton because New Jersey has recently been a hotbed of controversy surrounding the legality of profiling people by race, said Olivier Kamanda '03, a USG senator who organized the lecture series.
But because of the terrorist attacks, Kennedy changed the focus of his speech.
"[Kennedy] wanted to re-center his speech around racial profiling to focus on people of all nationalities," Kamanda said. "He wanted [the speech] to be more inclusive, not just about African Americans. With all of the media attention that the attacks have been getting, there is a tendency to attack all nationalities."
Kennedy said the terrorist attacks would also complicate the legal issues surrounding racial profiling.
"The events of Sept. 11 are going to make it more difficult to get rid of racial profiling, both at the street level — what police actually do — and at the formal level of the courts," he said in a New York Times article printed Sept. 21. "Judges are going to say, 'I thought something before, but what do you do in the face of the current circumstance?'"
Today's talk begins a week of lectures titled "Crime and Justice: An Exploration of the American Justice System."
Kamanda first thought of organizing a lecture series last May, he said. Topics were chosen to increase students' awareness of important issues.
This week is the first in a series of upcoming theme weeks. Ideas in Action includes contributions from student organizations, performing arts groups, faculty, staff and alumni. Its goal is to sponsor a series of events related to social issues.
This weeks' events include:
A lecture by Michael Vatis '85 — director of the Institute for Security Technology at Dartmouth College — titled "Fighting Terrorism in a Constitutional Democracy: Winning the War Without Losing our Rights," tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in McCosh 50.
The keynote speaker on Oct. 3 is University bioethics professor Peter Singer, whose lecture is titled "Voluntary Euthanasia: Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Sanctity of Human Life." He will speak at 4:30 p.m. in McCosh 10.
A Whig-Cliosophic Society debate about the abolition of the Honor Code will also take place on Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. in McCosh 50.
Anthony Papa, a graphic artist, will lead a prison art presentation and slide show Thursday at 5 p.m. in Frist 307.
The week wraps up Thursday evening with the University Film Organization movie "Dead Man Walking" at 8 p.m. in the Frist Theater.
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