Guinier is first on lecture circuit

Lani Guinier, the first black woman tenured professor at Harvard Law School, will open the 2002-2003 Distinguished Lecture Series.

The author and civil rights activist will lecture Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Wisconsin Union Theater on issues of racial justice, gender equity and democratic transformation.

Free tickets will available at the Union Theater Box Office, 800 Langdon St., starting Tuesday, Sept. 10, for students, faculty, staff and Union members. Remaining tickets are available to the public starting Thursday, Sept. 12. Box Office hours are 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. weekdays and noon-5 p.m. Saturdays; call (608) 262-2201.

Other featured speakers in the 2002-03 Distinguished Lecture Series are:

• F.W. De Klerk, former president of South Africa, Oct. 9 (at the Orpheum Theater, 211 State St.).
• Ben Stein, political analyst/entertainer, Nov. 11 (also at the Orpheum, 211 State St.).
• John Trudell, Native American activist/musician, Dec. 2.
• Leslie Feinberg, trans-liberation activist, January date to be announced.
• Betty Friedan, feminist author, March 4.
• Cornel West, Afro-American studies professor at Princeton, April 8.

For more information, contact Ann Hanson, (608) 262-2216, dlscommittee@hotmail.com.