DICE OBAMA QUE NO CONOCE A ESTOS TERRORISTAS

Intellectuals: Who Needs Them?

A public gathering
sponsored by
The Center for Public Intellectuals
&
the University of Illinois-Chicago

April 19^th-20^th, 2002

Chicago Illini Union

828 S. Wolcott

http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm

2:15-3:45 p.m.
IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.

William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

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November 4, 1997	Press Contact: Julia Morse (773) 702-8359 morse@uchicago.edu
Should a child ever be called a “super predator?” A panel at the University of Chicago debates the merits of the juvenile justice system Children who kill are called “super predators,” “people with no conscience,” “feral pre-social beings"–and “adults.” William Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court(Beacon Press, 1997), says “We should call a child a child. A 13-year-old who picks up a gun isn’t suddenly an adult. We have to ask other questions: How did he get the gun? Where did it come from?” Ayers, who spent a year observing the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center in Chicago, is one of four panelists who will speak on juvenile justice at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in the C-Shop of the Reynolds Club, 5706 S. University Ave. The panel, which marks the 100th anniversary of the juvenile justice system in the United States, is part of the Community Service Center’s monthly discussion series on issues affecting the city of Chicago. The event is free and open to the public. Ayers will be joined by Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the University of Chicago Law School, who is working to block proposed legislation that would throw more juvenile offenders into the adult system; Randolph Stone, Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at the University of Chicago; Alex Correa, a reformed juvenile offender who spent 7 years in Cook County Temporary Detention Center; Frank Tobin, a former priest and teacher in the Detention Center who helped Correa; and Willy Baldwin, who grew up in public housing and is currently a teacher in the Detention Center. The juvenile justice system was founded by Chicago reformer Jane Addams, who advocated the establishment of a separate court system for children which would act like a “kind and just parent” for children in crisis. One hundred years later, the system is “overcrowded, under-funded, over-centralized and racist,” Ayers said. Michelle Obama, Associate Dean of Student Services and Director of the University of Chicago Community Service Center, hopes bringing issues like this to campus will open a dialogue between members of the University community and the broader community. “We know that issues like juvenile justice impact each of us who live in the city of Chicago. This panel gives community members and students a chance to hear about the juvenile justice system not only on a theoretical level, but from the people who have experienced it.” http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/97/971104.juvenile.justice.shtml LE HICE CAPTURAS DE PANTALLA POR SI SE LES OCURRE BORRAR ESTA INFO,SE LAS PONGO EN BREVE.