Former president of ACLU and co-founder of FIRE featured at RIT

The former president of the American Civil Liberties Union and a co-founder of a group advocating free speech will be featured speakers at Rochester Institute of Technology's Center for Statesmanship, Law and Liberty's annual symposium Tuesday and Wednesday.

The symposium, "The University as a Marketplace of Ideas? The Debate over Free Speech and Fundamental Fairness on Campus," is free and open to the public.

Nadine Strossen will give a talk, "Title IX: Hostile Environment Policies that are Hostile to Free Speech and Due Process," at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in Liberal Arts Hall, Room A205, on the RIT campus.

Strossen, who is a professor of law at New York Law School, was president of the ACLU from 1991 through 2008.

Alan C. Kors will give a talk, "No Freedom of Speech, No Higher Education," on Wednesday at 7 p.m., in the Ingle Auditorium of the RIT Student Alumni Union.

Kors, a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, is co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). He is the 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal.