EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 4 p.m., Oct. 20, 2003

EVENT: The Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom, which began in 1991, will feature David Cole, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a National Public Radio commentator. He will discuss "Freedom and Terror: Sept. 11 and the 21st Century Challenge." The event is free and open to the public. Cole is a leading figure in the current national debate over the impact of the U.S. Patriot Act on First Amendment rights.

PLACE: Room 100 Hutchins Hall, U-M Law School (Central Campus map: http://www.umich.edu/news/ccamp.html)

SPONSORS: Academic Freedom Lecture Fund, American Association of University Professors-University of Michigan Ann Arbor Chapter, U-M Law School, Office of the President Office of the Vice President for Communications, Office of the Vice President and General Counsel, Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan, American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan—Washtenaw Branch, American Civil Liberties Union of the University of Michigan

WEB LINKS: For more information about the Academic Freedom Lecture Fund, see http://www.umich.edu/~aflf/

For additional information on Cole, visit http://www.law.georgetown.edu/curriculum/tab_faculty.cfm?Status=Faculty&Detail=235