Thursday, February 28, 2019

A Speaker on Free Speech!



C.L. Lindsay will be visiting Ashland University on Wednesday, March 13, at 7 pm to deliver an engaging and important talk concerning the legal and social limits of free speech on college campuses.  You don't want to miss this!

C.L. received his JD from the University of Michigan and is the founder and executive director of the Coalition for Student & Academic Rights (CO-STAR), which works with a national network of volunteer attorneys to offer free advice and advocacy to college students and professors. He is the author of The College Student's Guide to the Law.  He recently posted this youtube video below promoting the lecture that he will be delivering to various campuses across the nation.

For more information about C.L. Lindsay, you can visit his website:

http://www.cllindsay.com/

 
From C.L. Lindsay's website: "C.L. Lindsay is the country’s foremost authority on Higher Education Law. He literally wrote the book on legal problems in higher eduction. The College Student’s Guide to the Law has become the definitive authority–used by students, university counsel and nationwide as a textbook for masters and law courses. His work has been featured in US News & World Reports, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post, and countless other national and local media outlets.

"He has showcased at NACA Mid-Atlantic, South, Central, Northern Plains, Northeast, Mid-America, West and NACA and APCA Nationals. C.L. works regularly with Athletic Teams, Fraternities and Sororities, Orientations, Military Bases. Programs can be adjusted for the most conservative or liberal audiences.

"But what defines C.L. isn’t his knowledge. it’s his uncanny ability to make legal concepts not only understandable, but outright hilarious. In fact, the movie rights to his book were recently purchased by Steve Carrell to be developed into a motion picture—something that’s unheard of for a non-fiction, legal reference. In the last six years CL has made more than 800 appearances at colleges from Coast to Coast. Bring him to your school, base or other venue and you’ll see why he has become one of the most popular speakers in the country."

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Department Colloquium: Dr. Tiel on Torture!


The Department of Philosophy will host the following presentation:

“On Torture”
by
Dr. Jeffrey Tiel

Tuesday, February 26, 2019
3:00 pm in the Schar Ronk Lecture Hall



Torture involves the deliberate infliction of (intense) pain for coercive or punishment reasons.  Are there any conditions under which torture can be justified?  Dr. Tiel will argue that such conditions exist, and that it may be ethically justifiable to torture someone in specific kinds of interrogative cases.

However, while an action is ethically justifiable, that does not entail that it ought to be generally adopted.  Several potent constitutional and sociological concerns will be raised and considered.

Come for an enlightening and lively discussion.  All are welcome!



Sponsored by the AU Philosophy Club and the Ohio Mu chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, in conjunction with The Department of Philosophy