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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>FORD HALL FORUM<br>
AT <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">SUFFOLK</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">UNIVERSITY</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><br>
<br>
</span></font></b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>presents the<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>2010 First Amendment Award<br>
<br>
</span></b>honoring the<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION<br>
(FIRE)<br>
</span></b></span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><br>
with<br>
<b><font color=black><span style='color:black;font-weight:bold'>Greg Lukianoff</span></font></b><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Steven
Pinker</span></b>,<br>
and <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Harvey Silverglate<br>
<br>
</span></b></span></font>Thursday, March 18, at 6:30-8:00 pm<br>
C. Walsh Theatre, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Suffolk</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><br>
<br>
<font color=black><span style='color:black'>public discussion moderated by<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Judge Nancy Gertner<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Boston</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">MA</st1:State></st1:place>) <strong><b><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Ford Hall Forum</span></font></b></strong> <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>at Suffolk University</span></b> presents <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Greg Lukianoff</span></b>, <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Steven Pinker</span></b>, and <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Harvey
Silverglate </span></b>of<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> FIRE (Foundation
for Individual Rights in Education)</span></b> with the <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>2010 First Amendment Award</span></b>; public
discussion moderated by <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Judge Nancy Gertner</span></b>.
Thursday, March 18, at 6:30-8:00 pm. </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Admission is free and open to
all. C. Walsh Theatre, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Suffolk</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, <st1:address
w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">55 Temple Street</st1:Street>, <st1:City w:st="on">Boston</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">MA</st1:State></st1:address>. Wheelchair accessible
and conveniently located near the <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Park
Street</st1:address></st1:Street> stop on the MBTA. For more
information, call the Ford Hall Forum at 617-557-2007 or visit <a
href="http://www.fordhallforum.org/">www.fordhallforum.org</a>.<br>
<br>
<b><font color=black><span style='color:black;font-weight:bold'>Ford Hall Forum</span></font></b><font
color=black><span style='color:black'> is proud to present this year’s <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award</span></b>
to the <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Foundation for Individual Rights in
Education (FIRE)</span></b>, an organization dedicated to defending and
sustaining individual rights at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s
colleges and universities. <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Greg
Lukianoff</span></b>, President of FIRE, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Steven
Pinker</span></b>, bestselling author and FIRE Advisory Board member, and <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Harvey Silverglate</span></b>, civil liberties lawyer
and FIRE Co-Founder, join moderator <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Judge
Nancy Gertner</span></b> of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts to discuss
their organization’s work and what freedom of speech means today.<br>
<br>
For the past 29 years, the <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Ford Hall Forum's
Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award</span></b> has honored
individuals or organizations that demonstrate extraordinary commitment to
promoting and facilitating the thoughtful exercise of our right to freedom of
expression. </span></font>Previous First Amendment Award recipients
include journalist Gwen Ifill, civil rights activist Rosa Parks, musician and
political activist Pete Seeger, and founder of CNN Ted Turner. More
information about the Forum’s First Amendment Award is available at <a
href="http://www.fordhallforum.org/about/firstamendment">www.fordhallforum.org/about/firstamendment</a><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>. More information on the reception
that will be held on March 18<sup>th</sup> just prior to the awards ceremony
can be found at <a
href="http://www.fordhallforum.org/uncategorized/2010-first-amendment-award-reception">www.fordhallforum.org/uncategorized/2010-first-amendment-award-reception</a></span></font>.<br>
<br>
<u>Further b<font color=black><span style='color:black'>ackground information</span></font></u><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>:<br>
<br>
<b><u><span style='font-weight:bold'>Foundation for Individual Rights in
Education (FIRE)<br>
</span></u></b></span></font>The mission of <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>FIRE</span></b>
is to defend and sustain individual rights at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s colleges and
universities. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due
process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience — the essential
qualities of individual liberty and dignity. FIRE's core mission is to
protect the unprotected and to educate the public and communities of concerned
Americans about the threats to these rights on our campuses and about the means
to preserve them. (Source: <font color=black><span style='color:black'><a
href="http://www.thefire.org/">www.thefire.org</a></span></font>)<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Greg Lukianoff</span></b> is President of the
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). A graduate of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">American</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Stanford</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Law</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
where he focused on First Amendment and constitutional law, Greg has published
articles in The Stanford Technology Law Review, The Chronicle of Higher
Education, Fraternal Law, Inside Higher Ed, The Boston Globe, the New York
Post, and numerous other publications. He is a blogger for the Huffington Post
and served as a regular columnist for the Daily Journal of Los Angeles and <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:City></st1:place>. Greg is a
frequent guest on local and national syndicated radio programs, has represented
FIRE on national television shows—including CBS Evening News, The
O'Reilly Factor, MSNBC's Dr. Nancy, Glenn Beck, The Abrams Report, Hannity and
Colmes, and Buchanan and Press—and has testified before the U.S. Senate
about free speech issues on America's campuses. (Source: <a
href="http://www.thefire.org/">www.thefire.org</a>)<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Harvey Silverglate</span></b> is the
Co-Founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).
He served on the Board of the ACLU of Massachusetts for over three
decades, including two terms as Board president. He is council to
Zalkind, Rodriguez, Lunt & Duncan LLP, a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Boston</st1:City></st1:place> law firm specializing in criminal
defense, civil liberties, and academic freedom and student rights and has
assisted students in trouble since 1969, when he represented student anti-war
protesters on trial. A regular columnist for The Boston Phoenix,
Silverglate has published in The National Law Journal, Inc. magazine, The Wall
Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer,
Harvard Law Review, The New York Times Book Review, Massachusetts Lawyers
Weekly, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Media Studies Journal,
Cato Journal, Wilson Quarterly, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Reason
magazine, and elsewhere. Silverglate is also the author of<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the
Innocent</span></i> (2009) and co-author of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The
Shadow University</span></i> (1998). Silverglate was born in <st1:State
w:st="on">New York</st1:State> (1942) and was educated at Bogota (N.J.) High
School (1960), <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Princeton</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> (1964), and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Law</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> (1967). He
has taught at <st1:City w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:City> Rindge & Latin
School (a public secondary school), the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Massachusetts College III</st1:PlaceName> (in <st1:City
w:st="on">Boston</st1:City>), and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Law</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.
(Source: <a href="http://www.thefire.org/">www.thefire.org</a>)<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Steven Pinker </span></b>is the Harvard
College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. His research on visual
cognition and the psychology of language has won prizes from the National
Academy of Sciences, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the American
Psychological Association. He has also taught at Stanford and MIT. Pinker
has received six honorary doctorates, several teaching awards, and numerous
prizes for his books; The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, and The Blank
Slate. His latest book is The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human
Nature, 2007. Pinker is a graduate of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">McGill</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> in <st1:City w:st="on">Montreal</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region> and received his
doctorate from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. He currently
Honorary President of the Canadian Psychological Association and Chair on the
Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and writes frequently for The
New Republic, The New York Times, and other publications. He has been named
Humanist of the Year, and is listed in Foreign Policy and Prospect magazine's
"The World's Top 100 Public Intellectuals" and Time magazine's
"The 100 Most Influential People in the World Today." (Source: <a
href="http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/">http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/</a>)<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Nancy Gertner</span></b> is a Federal judge
for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Gertner
was nominated to the seat by President Bill Clinton and received her commission
as confirmed by the Senate in 1994. She received her B.A. from <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Barnard</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType>,
and her M.A. and a J.D. from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Yale</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. Prior
to her appointment, she was in private practice in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Boston</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:State></st1:place>,
and was well known for her work as a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer.
She served as an instructor at Boston University School of Law and a visiting
Professor at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Law</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.
Gertner is celebrated as the co-author of <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>The Law of Juries</span></i> (1997) and the only <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:State></st1:place> judge to post to a personal
blog on the subject of law. (Sources: <a
href="http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=837">www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=837</a>,
<a
href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/2008/03/17/introduction.aspx">www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/2008/03/17/introduction.aspx</a>)<br>
<br>
<b><u><font color=black><span style='color:black;font-weight:bold'>Ford Hall
Forum at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Suffolk</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><br>
</span></font></u></b><font color=black><span style='color:black'>The Ford Hall
Forum is the nation's oldest free public lecture series. The Forum
promotes freedom of speech and fosters an informed and effective citizenry
through public presentation of lectures, debates, and discussions. Its events
illuminate the key issues facing our society, by bringing to its podium
knowledgeable and thought-provoking speakers from a broad range of
perspectives. These individuals speak in person, for free, and in
settings that encourage frank and open debate.<br>
<br>
The Forum began in 1908 as a series of Sunday evening public meetings held at
the Ford Hall, which once stood on Beacon Hill in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Boston</st1:City></st1:place>. While the original building no longer
exists, the public conversations have continued throughout the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Boston</st1:City></st1:place> area with the
generous support of foundations, corporations, academic institutions, and
individuals. In its 102nd year of programming, the Forum continues to
build upon its new partnership with the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Suffolk</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> of Arts &
Sciences. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Suffolk</st1:City></st1:place>
is now housing the Forum's administrative offices just a block away from where
the original Ford Hall once stood.<br>
<br>
Ford Hall Forum programs are made possible through the generous contributions
from individual members as well as corporations and foundations, including The
Boston Foundation, The Boston Public Library, Citizens Bank, Boston Private
Bank & Trust Company, CBT Architects, Digitas, The Fred and Marty Corneel
Fund, Fidelity Investment, Helen Rees Literary Agency, Houghton Chemical
Corporation, Iron Mountain, Jackson & Company, Levine, Katz, Nannis +
Solomon, PC, Louise Farrell Studios, The Lowell Institute, Massachusetts
Cultural Council, Nellie Mae Education Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation,
Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation, Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye LLP,
Suffolk University, The WAND Education Foundation, WBUR, and the WGBH Forum
Network.<br>
<br>
For more information on the Ford Hall Forum, visit www.fordhallforum.org.
Information about <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Suffolk</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>’s
partnership with the Ford Hall Forum can be obtained by contacting Mariellen
Norris, (617) 573-8450, <a href="mnorris@suffolk.edu"
title="outbind://163-000000003EFF1B4379CBC8449672E893F3A4299544B77200/mnorris@suffolk.edu"><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>mnorris@suffolk.edu</span></font></a>.<br>
<br>
Coming up next at Ford Hall Forum:<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Mitt Romney </span></b>with <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Jeff Jacoby<br>
</span></b><u>No Apology: The Case for American Greatness<br>
</u>Thursday, April 8, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.<br>
Rabb Auditorium, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Boston</st1:City></st1:place>
Public Library<br>
Businessman and former Governor of Massachusetts <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Mitt Romney</span></b> joins moderator <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Jeff
Jacoby</span></b>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Boston Globe</span></i>
columnist, to explore why American strength is essential — not just for
our own well-being, but for the world — and how we can move America back
to a position of political and economic power.<br>
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