From: [silvers 3] at [husc8.harvard.edu] (Jolyon Silversmith)
Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.activism.death-penalty,alt.censorship,alt.drugs
Subject: College Civil Liberties Conference at Harvard University
Date: 18 Sep 93 02:10:10 GMT

Subject: College Civil Liberties Conference at Harvard University

The Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH), the Harvard College affiliate 
of the American Civil Liberties Union, will be sponsoring a conference for 
college students on civil liberties on Saturday, November 6, 1993. The 
tenative workshop topics and speakers are: 
 
1) The Organizational Aspects of College Civil Liberties Unions, led by the 
Civil Liberties Union of Harvard and John Roberts, Director of the Civil 
Liberties Union of Massachusetts
 
2) The Death Penalty
 
3) Free Speech and Hate Speech, led by Natasha Lisman of the law firm of 
Sugarman, Rogers, Bushak, and Cohen
 
4) Sexual Harrassment, led by Nancy Ryan, President of the CLUM Board of 
Directors and Chair of CLUM's Women's Rights Project
 
5) Electronic Privacy/E-Mail Rights, led by Ralph Clifford, Attorney at Law
 
6) Campus Publications and Censorship, led by Marjorie Heins of the ACLU 
Arts Censorship Project
 
7) Civil Liberties and Drug Legalization, led by Jon Holmes of CLUM
 
8) Gay and Lesbian Rights
 
There will also be an endnote forum, tenatively titled Rights in Conflict - 
Women and Civil Liberties
 
The conference is open to all college students; other individuals please 
contact CLUH for more information. Registration for the conference will be 
primarily by mail, although some provision will be made for same-day 
registration. Check-in will take place on the evening of Friday, November 5 
and the morning of Saturday, November 6, with the first sessions beginning 
at 8AM and the last sessions ending at 6 PM on November 6. CLUH can 
arrange for limited overnight accomodation on November 5. The fee for 
participants will be $5.
 
For more information by e-mail, contact [r--a--n] at [husc.harvard.edu], 
[l--gg--d] at [husc.harvard.edu], or [silvers 3] at [husc.harvard.edu.] For information by 
mail, write to the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard, c/o Rob Yalen, 167 
Quincy House Mail Center, Cambridge, MA 02167, or call (617) 493-3109.
 
Even if you can't come to the conference, we need your help in publicizing 
the conference. Please contact CLUH for more information. Please feel free 
to distribute this information, unaltered, to any groups or individuals that 
may find it of interest.
 
CLUH is also interested in contacting other student civil liberties 
organizations or students interested in starting one on their campus. The 
ACLU can provide interested students with an organizing manual, contacts at 
other local universities, and other information and resorces. Contact the 
above address for more info.

-- 
Jolyon ("Jol") Silversmith______________________________________________________
Mather House 188              Former Director:  Civil Liberties Union of Harvard
Cambridge, MA 02138           Circulation/Publicity Manager: Lighthouse Magazine
[silvers 3] at [husc.harvard.edu]     Editor:  The  Mather  Messenger (House Newsletter)