For Immediate Release September 8, 2000
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACTSarah Jarvis, 315-228-7452[email protected]
WHAT: WHO CONTROLS CORRUPTION? scheduled as kick-off event for Colgate University's Center for Ethics and World Societies
WHEN: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 at 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Colgate Memorial Chapel, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Hamilton, NY--Why isthere so much corruption in America? Or, is the real question, why isn't there more corruption? It seems that the forces that help control the problem are fear of punishment, a free press, public opinion, political competition, and a working consensus over basic values.
At the kick-off event for Colgate University's Center for Ethics and World Societies on Tuesday, September 12 at 8:00 p.m, a panel of experts: John Zogby, public opinion pollster; William H. Gray, III, former member of Congress (D-Pa), currently president and CEO of The College Fund/UNCF; Peter Overby, reporter, National Public Radio's "Power, Money and Influence"; Mary K. Butler, trial attorney, Pubic Integrity Section, U.S. Department of Justice, will debate questions of corruption and how limits are set.
Following the panelists' presentation, the program will be open to the audience for their questions.
The event is free and open to the public and is being co-sponsored by the A.L. O'Connor Fund at Colgate and the Hamilton Forum.
Established three years ago through an anonymous gift to the college, The Center for Ethics and World Societies (CEWS) at Colgate University offers a forum for intensified study and inquiry that supplements the intellectual life of the Colgate campus and curriculum.
Directed by Michael Johnston, professor of political science, during the 2000-2001 academic year, CEWS will analyze the issue of corruption from the vantage points of a variety of disciplines and methodologies. It will consider the many forms corruption takes, and the ways it reflects the problems and values of diverse societies and institutional systems. Reform will be a major concern, but so will be the ways some reforms can do more harm than good.
For more information on CEWS programs, all of which are free and open to the public, log onto: http://groups.colgate.edu/cews.
Founded in 1819, Colgate University is a nationally ranked, highly selective, residential, liberal arts college enrolling nearly 2,750 undergraduates. Situated on a rolling 515-acre campus in central New York State, Colgate University attracts motivated students with diverse backgrounds, interests and talents from all over the United States.
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