KENT STATE University plans annual democracy symposium

KENT -- Kent State University presents its Fifth Annual Symposium on Democracy, "Democracy and Homeland Security: Strategies, Controversies and Impact," next Monday and April 27.
All events during the two-day symposium are free and open to the public and will be in the Kent Student Center Kiva on campus.
The symposium is one of the annual symposia on democratic values held as part of the university's observance of the events of May 4, 1970, when a confrontation between the Ohio National Guard and demonstrators left four Kent State students dead and nine students wounded.
This year's symposium program includes the presentation, discussion and critique of 12 papers selected through an international call for papers and two keynote addresses.
The opening keynote address at 7:30 p.m. next Monday will be delivered by Admiral James M. Loy, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He retired as commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard in 2002, and was nominated for his current position by President Bush in 2003. Loy's speech is titled "Homeland Security: Preserving Our Freedoms, Protecting America."
Tuesday address
Concluding the two-day event, David Cole, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a volunteer staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, will deliver his keynote address, "Enemy Aliens and American Freedoms: Double Standards and Civil Liberties in the War on Terrorism" at 4 p.m. April 27.
For a more detailed program schedule and brief descriptions of presenters' papers, visit www.kent.edu/History/may4_1970/democracy/Democracy2004/index.cfm.