Winter Campus Forum Series Opens With Debate on Iraq


Winter Campus Forum Series Opens With Debate on Iraq
Cal Poly Pomona physics professor John Mallinckrodt will launch the winter quarter?s Campus Forum series with a ?Debate on Iraq: War & the Occupation.?

Lewis Snider, Claremont Graduate School associate professor of political science, will speak in favor of the policy during the ?Debate on Iraq: War & the Occupation.?

John Mallinckrodt, Cal Poly Pomona physics professor, and Lewis Snider, Claremont Graduate School associate professor of political science, will launch the winter quarter?s Campus Forum series with a ?Debate on Iraq: War & the Occupation,? on Wednesday, Jan. 14, noon to 1 p.m., in the Bronco Student Center, Ursa Minor Room.

The university?s Campus Forum series brings speakers to campus to discuss topics of current and pertinent interest to the community. These forums, free and open to the public, are scheduled for Wednesdays at noon in the Bronco Student Center. Other lectures this quarter include:

  • Jan. 21 ? Co-editor of Counterpunch and author Jeffrey St. Clair will discuss ?Agenda for Environmentalists? in the Ursa Major Room, Suite A.
  • Jan. 28 ? Alice Huang, California Institute of Technology faculty associate and microbiologist & senior councilor for external relations, will speak on ?What the Public Should Know About Science? in the Ursa Minor Room.
  • Feb. 4 ? Author and journalist John Dinges will discuss ?The U.S. Role in Operation Condor: International Assassinations Inc.? in the Ursa Major Room, Suite A.
  • Feb. 11 ? Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski will provide ?A Military Critique of the Iraq War? in the Ursa Major Room, Suite A.
  • Feb. 18 ? Cal Poly Pomona?s Saul Landau and Sonia Angulo will screen their film ?Syria: Between Iraq and a Hard Place? in the Ursa Major Room, Suite A.

For more information on the Campus Forum series, call Saul Landau, director of digital media and international outreach programs for the College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences, at (909) 869-3115.