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So they said ...

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community

 and world better than you found it."

Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, 1939-

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Connection

A tribute to Elizabeth Wainio ’95 and the victims of 9/11

Who? FDNY Chief Richard Picciotto, last firefighter to escape the World Trade Center collapse and author of the bestseller, Last Man Down

What?  Picciotto recounts his 9/11 experience; a reception follows

Where?  University Union's Chesapeake Room

When? Thursday, September 8, 7 p.m.

Why? The program is a fund-raising event for the Honor Elizabeth Wainio Scholarship Fund at TU; Wainio died aboard the hijacked United Flight 93

How?  Free, although donations to the Wainio Scholarship Fund will be accepted; R.S.V.P. to Office of Alumni Relations, alumni@towson.edu or x42234

Recent Media Highlights

Looting Causing Major Problems in New Orleans

WJZ-TV, 5 p.m. news broadcast, September 2

Reporter Suzanne Collins spoke with Seth Ovadia, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice, about causes of the looting in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Ovadia said that a small portion of the population, chronically impoverished and frustrated, vented their anger by lashing out at the system.

Iraq’s struggles echo U.S. past

The Sun, August 28

Staff writer Michael Hill spoke with Jack Fruchtman, director of the program in Law and American Civilization about similarities between Iraq’s deadlocked consititutional process and that of the fledgling United States during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. Fruchtman noted that the so-called “Great Compromise,” in which slaves counted as three-fifths of a person for determining seats in the House of Representatives, merely sidestepped the contentious issue of slavery rather than solved it.

An Anchor by Evening, a Blogger Any Time

The New York Times, August 25