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CPU > Events > 2002-2003
CPU Events
2002-2003
- Gubernatorial Candidate and State Comptroller Carl McCall
9/28/02 - co-sponsored with Columbia College Democrats and the Black Students Organization
- CPU Panel: Lower Manhattan Project
9/30/02 - a CPU event
- Mark Green, Former Mayoral Candidate, Public Advocate, and author of Selling Out: How Big Corporate Money Buys Elections, Rams through Legislation, and Betrays Our Democracy
10/28/02 - a CPU event co-sponsored by Columbia Economics Society, and C-SPAN2
- CPU Panel: Foreign News Coverage After September 11th, moderated by Judith Matloff (Adjunct Professor at Columbia School of Journalism and world-renown journalist), with panelists Philip Bennett (Assistant Managing Editor for Foreign News, The Washington Post), Calvin Sims (New York Times reporter), Helen Fessenden (Senior Editor, Foreign Affairs)
11/11/02 - a CPU event co-sponsored by PSSA, Columbia Society of Professional Journalists, and Towards Reconciliation
- Student Debate: "WAR ON IRAQ: Is Conflict Justified And Necessary?" Moderated by Professor Robert Shapiro
11/26/02 - a CPU event
- State of the Union Debate
1/28/03 - a CPU event, co-sponsored by College Republicans and College Democrats
- Joel Klein (NYC Public Schools Chancellor)
2/3/03 - co-sponsored the College Democrats and College Republicans
- IRAQ: THE DAY AFTER - Prominent Iraqis Speak on the Future of Their Homeland with introduction by Jeff Klein (writer/reporter, Kurdish Media), and panelists Ala Fa’ik, Ph.D.(Vice President, Iraqi Forum for Democracy), Qubad Talabany (Deputy US Representative, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan), Feisal al-Istrabadi, Esq.(Founding Member, Iraqi Forum for Democracy)
2/10/03 - a CPU event
- "America, Iraq, and the War on Terrorism," featuring William Bennett, former Secretary of Education and current chairman of EMPOWER.org and Americans for Victory Over Terrorism; Frank Gaffney, the founder and president of the Center for Security Policy and former Assistant Secretary of Defense; James Woolsey, former CIA Director; and Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, former Ambassador-At-Large for Counter-Terrorism
2/12/03 - co-sponsored with SU4A (Students United for America), the Columbia College Republicans, LionPAC, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the Columbia College Conservative Club, and AVOT
- Senator Orrin Hatch: "Becoming a Federal Judge: Nomination to Confirmation”
2/22/03 - co-sponsored with The Federalist Society
- Affirmative Action, a Debate, moderated by Michael Dorf (Vice Dean, Columbia Law School), featuring Professor John O. McGinnis of Northwestern University School of Law and Elise C. Boddie of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
3/6/03 - co-sponsored with he American Constitution Society, The Black Law Students Association, and The Federalist Society
- Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell - Experiences in Conflict Resolution: the Middle East and Northern Ireland
3/12/03 - a CPU event co-sponsored by Model Congress, College Democrats, The Center for International Conflict Resolution
- Former Senator Gary Hart
4/7/03 - Co-sponsored with the Office of the University Chaplain, the Student Governing Board of Earl Hall, and the Columbia College Democrats
- Civic and Political Youth Engagement Keynote Speaker Karenna Gore-Shiff (Director of Community Affairs for Association to Benefit Children), followed by a panel discussion moderated by Jay DeDapper (Political Correspondent, NBC4), with panelists Karenna Gore-Shiff, Andy Gabor (Rock the Vote NYC), Basil Smikle (Office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton), and Kevin Mattson (author of Engaging Youth)
4/9/03 - co-sponsored with The Century Foundation
- The Ivy League Union vs. The Oxford Union: A Parliamentary Debate with representatives from Oxford, Yale, and Columbia Universities, moderated by Samir Arora, CPU General Manager (Proposition: “This House would end the role of the United States as a global policeman.”)
4/9/03 - a CPU event
- Kasey Pipes, Associate Director of the Office of Strategic Initiatives
4/21/03 - a CPU event co-sponsored by College Republicans
- Claire Shipman, ABC Senior News Correspondent
5/5/03 - a CPU event
- Presidential Candidate Howard Dean
5/13/03 - co-sponsored with SIPA, GSSC, and College Democrats
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