Center at Grove City to host presentations

GROVE CITY, Pa. — The Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College will host a series of lectures and other presentations throughout the 2007-08 academic year, beginning with several public policy and human-rights experts. Presentations are free and open to the public.

Among lectures scheduled are:

UJoseph Loconte, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, will speak at 7 p.m. Sept. 11 in Sticht Lecture Hall of the Hall of Arts and Letters. The evening presentation is free and open to the public.

UDr. Michael Kazin, professor of history at Georgetown University, will speak at 7 p.m. Sept. 25 in Sticht Lecture Hall. The presentation, “The Gospel of William Jennings Bryan,” is sponsored by the Faith and Politics working group of the center.

ULisa Thompson, liaison for the abolition of sexual trafficking for The Salvation Army’s national headquarters, and Patricia Green, a noted preacher and speaker on issues of sexual exploitation, trafficking and prostitution, will speak on human trafficking at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 in Sticht Lecture Hall.

USteven W. Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, will present “China’s One Child Policy” at 7 p.m. Oct. 15 in Sticht Lecture Hall. Widely recognized as an expert on global population, Mosher was the first American social scientist to live in rural China and write about it.

UEd Meese, Ronald Reagan’s adviser and former attorney general, will speak Feb, 12 as part of the second annual Ronald Reagan Lecture.