Reminder: Mr. D’Souza will be available to meet with the news media at 6:45 pm in the Green Room in the Union Theater before his presentation. For details please contact Eric Schmidt, , 262-352-4004 of DLS, or Marc Kennedy, Wisconsin Union Communications Director, 608 262-5079, .
For Immediate Release: Contact: Eric Schmidt
January 17, 2007 (262) 352-4004;
Distinguished Lecture Series presents:
DINESH D’SOUZA
Tuesday, January 30
7:30 pm
Union Theater
Memorial Union
800 Langdon St.
The fourth lecture of the 2006-07 Distinguished Lecture Series features Dinesh D’Souza, named by New York Times Magazine as one of America’s most influential conservative thinkers. The lecture is Tuesday, January 30 at 7:30 pm in Union Theater, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.
Tickets are free and available for sale starting Tuesday, January 23 at the Union Theater box office in Memorial Union.
D’Souza, a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, is a noted public opinion and public policy analyst. He has served as a senior policy analyst in the Reagan administration, and has written several books featured on the New York Times best seller list. D’Souza’s most controversial and well-known topics for discussion include affirmative action, feminism and immigration. Conservative and liberal thinkers alike are sure to find his lecture provocative and intelligent.
D’Souza’s visit is sponsored by the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Distinguished Lecture Series Committee and co-sponsored by Chadbourne Residential Hall and University Bookstore.
Upcoming speakers include:
· Writer and social commentator Sarah Vowell (Wednesday, February 21)
· Prof. Marion Nestle, author of "Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health" (Monday, March 5)
· Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF from 1995-1999, (Monday, March 12)
· David Suzuki, Canadian environmentalist and science broadcaster (Tuesday, March 20).
For more information contact Eric Schmidt, , or visit www.union.wisc.edu/DLS.
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