Vine Deloria delivered a lecture in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium titled "Issues Facing Native Americans in 21st Century" was part of the 1996 Multicultural Fair Week. The Clarke Center sponsored this event.
Lowell Weicker (former Connecticut Governor and U.S. Senator) delivered the Constitution Address titled "The Constitution: Any Present Value?" in Rubendall Recital Hall. The Clarke Center organized the event.
Arie Rudnik (Jewish Agency of Israel) gave a two-part lecture series with the titles "The Relationship between Religion and Law in Israel" and "The Peace Process in the Middle East." The events, which were held at the Dickinson School of Law and in Memorial Hall respectively, were sponsored by the Jewish Law Student Association of the Dickinson Law School and the Clarke Center.
Kathleen McGinty, chair of President William J. Clinton's Council on Environmental Quality, gave a lecture titled "Environmental Policy in the Clinton Administration." The event was held in Rubendall Recital Hall and was sponsored by the Clarke Center.
Professor John O. Voll delivered the 1996 Pflaum Lecture in Denny Hall on Wednesday, May 1. Dr. Voll's address, "Who Owns History?," was sponsored by the History Department and the Clark Center.
June Teufel Dreyer (University of Miami), Bates Gill (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), Samuel Soonki Kim (Columbia University), and Allen Whiting (University of Arizona) discussed China in the 21st century during an event in Memorial Hall on April 25, 1996. The event was held in Memorial Hall in Old West by The Department of International Studies and the Clarke Center sponsored this panel discussion.
Reverend Barry Stopfel and his partner Will Leckie gave a lecture on the experience of being a gay minister in the Episcopal Church, titled "Heresy & Homosexuality! A Bishop in Check." The Department of Dramatic Arts and the Clarke Center sponsored the event.
Author Lillian Faderman delivered the 1996 Shaw Lecture, titled "Lesbian Identity: Its Evolution in the 20th Century," on April 15, 1996. The Department of American Studies and the Clarke Center sponsored the event.
The Clarke Center organized a discussion in Old West titled "Sex, Lies and the Chemical Industry: How Chemicals are Harming Wildlife and Humans," which featured Peter Montague from the Environmental Research Foundation and David W. Patti from the Pennsylvania Chemical Industry Council.
Roger M. Craver (class of 1963) discussed welfare during a lecture titled "Welfare Kings: Robbing You Blind in Washington." This event, which was sponsored by the Clarke Center, was held in Memorial Hall, Old West.
Peter Montague, from the from the Environmental Research Foundation, delivered a lecture in Memorial Hall titled "Our Environmental Crisis! A Grassroots Agenda." The Clarke Center sponsored this event.
Dick Gregory, television personality, author, and commentator, promoted the cause of civil rights in a College Lecture Series program held during Parent's Weekend.
Poet Don. L Lee opened the Congress of African Students Conference with a lecture, in which he stressed the need for African American students to be active on campus. Lee also read from some of his works, including Think Black, We Walk The Way of the New World, and Black Pride.
Andrew Young, Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was the guest speaker at College Church held in Mathers Theatre on Sunday February 7. Young's sermon was part of the 1971 Public Affairs Symposium on privacy.
A slide lecture for students interested in applying to Operation Crossroads for the summer 1971 was held in Dana Hall. The program, as the Dickinsonian reported, "provides the opportunity for students to travel to Africa... and perform a variety of voluntary work projects."
Rhody McCoy, administrator in the Oceanhill-Brownsville demonstration school district in New York, discussed the Brownsville Crisis during a lecture in Dana Hall on Friday, January 30. The Crisis involved a teacher strike and the lack of funding for school districts.
John Shattuck (Asst Secretary, U.S. State Dept.), Susannah Sirkin (Physicians for Human Rights), and Stephanie Farrior (Amnesty International) participated in a panel discussion on "War Crimes Tribunals" in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. This event was part of the Clarke Center's series called "Nuremberg in Contemporary Perspective: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials."
Drexel Sprecher (Nuremberg prosecutor), Arnie Joseph (Nuremberg translator), Helen Segall (Holocaust survivor), and Lisa Lieberman (moderator and Dickinson History Professor) participated in a panel discussion on "Remembering Nuremberg." This event, which was held in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, was part of the Clarke Center's series called "Nuremberg in Contemporary Perspective: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials."
Dr. Raul Hilberg, a noted Holocaust scholar, gave a lecture called "The Holocaust in the Nuremberg Trials" in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. This event was part of the Clarke Center's series called "Nuremberg in Contemporary Perspective: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials."
John Sexton, Dean and Warren E Burger Professor at New York University Law School, delivered a lecture titled "Baseball, Church, and State: American Institutions in Crisis" during Common Hour in Rubendall Recital Hall on March 6, 1996. The Clarke Center sponsored the event.
A panel discussion entitled "School Choice and Education Reform: Is there a Balance?" featured Senator James Gerlach (Class of 1977), Representative John R. Gordner (Class of 1983), Representative Al Masland (Class of 1979), Senator Howard Mowery, and Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Eugene W. Hickok. Dr. Hickok taught political science at Dickinson from 1980 to 1995. The panel also explored "career opportunities with key alumni in Pa. state government." The Dickinson Alumni Office and the Clarke Center sponsored this event..
Author Ronald Takaki delivered an address titled "The Making of Multicultural America: Women and the Chinese and Irish Migrations" in Rubendall Recital Hall. This event, which was part of the the Flaherty Lecture series, was sponsored by the Clarke Center and the East Asian Studies Department.
Mayer Nudell, International Association of Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and Stefan Presser, ACLU of Pennsylvania, discussed "America: Target for Terrorism" during Common Hour held in the Anita Tuvin-Schlechter Auditorium on April 26, 1995. The Clarke Center sponsored the event.