From: [silvers 3] at [husc8.harvard.edu] (Jolyon Silversmith) Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.activism.death-penalty,alt.censorship,alt.drugs Subject: College Civil Liberties Conference at Harvard University Date: 18 Sep 93 02:10:10 GMT Subject: College Civil Liberties Conference at Harvard University The Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH), the Harvard College affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, will be sponsoring a conference for college students on civil liberties on Saturday, November 6, 1993. The tenative workshop topics and speakers are: 1) The Organizational Aspects of College Civil Liberties Unions, led by the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard and John Roberts, Director of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts 2) The Death Penalty 3) Free Speech and Hate Speech, led by Natasha Lisman of the law firm of Sugarman, Rogers, Bushak, and Cohen 4) Sexual Harrassment, led by Nancy Ryan, President of the CLUM Board of Directors and Chair of CLUM's Women's Rights Project 5) Electronic Privacy/E-Mail Rights, led by Ralph Clifford, Attorney at Law 6) Campus Publications and Censorship, led by Marjorie Heins of the ACLU Arts Censorship Project 7) Civil Liberties and Drug Legalization, led by Jon Holmes of CLUM 8) Gay and Lesbian Rights There will also be an endnote forum, tenatively titled Rights in Conflict - Women and Civil Liberties The conference is open to all college students; other individuals please contact CLUH for more information. Registration for the conference will be primarily by mail, although some provision will be made for same-day registration. Check-in will take place on the evening of Friday, November 5 and the morning of Saturday, November 6, with the first sessions beginning at 8AM and the last sessions ending at 6 PM on November 6. CLUH can arrange for limited overnight accomodation on November 5. The fee for participants will be $5. For more information by e-mail, contact [r--a--n] at [husc.harvard.edu], [l--gg--d] at [husc.harvard.edu], or [silvers 3] at [husc.harvard.edu.] For information by mail, write to the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard, c/o Rob Yalen, 167 Quincy House Mail Center, Cambridge, MA 02167, or call (617) 493-3109. Even if you can't come to the conference, we need your help in publicizing the conference. Please contact CLUH for more information. Please feel free to distribute this information, unaltered, to any groups or individuals that may find it of interest. CLUH is also interested in contacting other student civil liberties organizations or students interested in starting one on their campus. The ACLU can provide interested students with an organizing manual, contacts at other local universities, and other information and resorces. Contact the above address for more info. -- Jolyon ("Jol") Silversmith______________________________________________________ Mather House 188 Former Director: Civil Liberties Union of Harvard Cambridge, MA 02138 Circulation/Publicity Manager: Lighthouse Magazine [silvers 3] at [husc.harvard.edu] Editor: The Mather Messenger (House Newsletter)