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SPEAKERS' CORNER
United Nations West
Former U.N. assistant secretary general Dennis
Halliday condemned U.S. sanctions against Iraq in a
February 27 speech at Terman Auditorium, arguing that the
policy harms children. "The school system doesn't have a
sanitation system or heat for the winter," he said. Two
weeks later in a talk at Encina Hall's Bechtel Conference
Center, Sadako Ogata, the U.N. high commissioner for
refugees, detailed the ethical challenges of protecting
displaced people.
The Whole Truth
Journalists who go out looking for scandal shouldn't sweep
their findings under the rug if they fail to discover dirt,
said Steven Brill, founder and editor of media
watchdog magazine Brill's Content. In a February 17
visit to Cubberly Auditorium, Brill argued that reporters
should write the good news, too. On March 5, William
Bowen, co-author of The Shape of the River: Long-Term
Consequences of Considering Race in College and University
Admissions, told an audience at Dinkelspiel Auditorium
that universities should help nurture a diverse society.
Advocates for Change
Consumer activist Ralph Nader, addressing a March 13
Law School conference that drew students from around the
country, urged aspiring attorneys to work for social change.
John Deutch, former director of the CIA, told a
capacity crowd at Annenberg Auditorium on March 4 that to
better combat terrorism, the U.S. needs to find a balance
between civil liberties and national security concerns.
Olivia Gans, director of American Victims of
Abortion, argued that ending a pregnancy is dehumanizing.
Ganz spoke at the Women's Center on February 23 and
Tresidder on February 24. Argentine diplomat Raúl
Estrada-Oyuela described the politics behind the Kyoto
Protocol on global climate issues at Bechtel Conference
Center on February 11.
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