YOUNGSTOWN Industry senior adviser to speak on free enterprise at YSU symposium

A symposium on peace will be later in the week.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Reed E. Hundt, a senior adviser on information industries to the McKinsey and Co. worldwide management-consulting firm, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Kilcawley Center's Ohio Room as part of this year's Paul J. and Marguerite K. Thomas Colloquium on Free Enterprise. The address is free.
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 1993 to 1997, Hundt serves on the board of directors of Allegiance Telecom Inc., Expedia and Intel Corp. He also helped negotiate the World Trade Organization Telecommunications agreement.
Author of "You Say You Want A Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics," Hundt teaches a seminar cross-listed at the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management.
The colloquium was established through an endowment in 1981 to foster ideas that are conducive to the growth of the free enterprise system.
Michael N. Nagler, co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley, is the keynote speaker at a symposium called "Searching for a Nonviolent Future" on Friday and Saturday at Youngstown State University.
Workshops and panels
The symposium, sponsored by the YSU Women's Center, the James Dale Ethics Center and WYSU-FM, kicks off 7 to 11 p.m. Friday at the McDonough Museum with a debate called "How is America to Find Security: The Way of War or the Way of Nonviolence," followed by the play "Lysistrata" and a concert.
Nagler's lecture, "Gandhi Today: Applying Nonviolent Genius in Troubled Times," will highlight a series of workshops and panel discussions Saturday in Kilcawley Center. His lecture begins at 4:30 p.m. in the Chestnut Room.
Workshops and discussions will cover topics ranging from the death penalty to unconditional compassion and will feature comments from several YSU faculty members. A Peace Fair will be conducted from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday in the Chestnut Room.
Also that day, Mel Duncan, executive director of the Nonviolent Peaceforce, will speak at 3 p.m. in the Ohio Room.
Peaceforce works with local groups around the world to protect human rights and to provide venues for peacemakers to carry out their work.