On Monday, April 14, a panel including U.S. Rep. Howard Coble, whose comments about Japanese Internment offended many and called his role as commencement speaker into question, will discuss civil liberties for Arabs and other groups in the current war against Iraq.
Head of the Peace and Conflict Studies department Vernie Davis will moderate the forum, which will last 90 minutes.
The event, to be held at the New Garden Friends Meeting at 7:30 p.m., will be open to all students and other affiliated with the college, and closed to commercial media.
“I’m excited about the opportunity for everyone who is involved with Guilford to get a chance to really be educated about this issue and discuss it in an open form with experts in different fields,” said Senior Josh Neas, who is involved in planning the forum.
Neas spearheaded the protest against Coble as a commencement speaker in February, and this forum is partly a response to students’ concerns that he was an inappropriate choice.