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05-February-2002
02058

College news

by Evan Silverstein

GROVE CITY, PA - U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty, a 1980 Grove City College graduate and a member of the Presbyterian Church in America, is overseeing the prosecutions of Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person to face U.S. criminal charges in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and John Walker Lindh, the U.S. citizen accused of assisting Taliban forces in Afghanistan. McNulty won Grove City College's Alumni Achievement Award in 1998.                 

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DANVILLE, KY - A crew from Discovery's Travel Channel visited Centre College last month to film a segment featuring Phyllis Passariello, associate professor of anthropology.  Passariello's insights will be used in a program called "The World's Best Places to Go Back in Time," about sites that best reveal civilization from the beginning of recorded history to the 20th Century. The broadcast date for the one-hour special has not been set.

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MEMPHIS, TN - Rhodes College senior Joshua Welter contributed to a report, Illegal to Be Homeless: The Criminalization of Homelessness in the United States, published recently by the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) and the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. Welter spent the summer of 2000 working at NCH in Washington, through funding from the Presbyterian Hunger Program. Researchers found that many communities effectively criminalize homelessness by prohibiting activities such as sleeping or camping in public, even when no shelter beds are available.

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ST. PETERSBURG, FL - Sir Kieran Prendergast, the United Nations undersecretary general for political affairs, will speak at Eckerd College on The Challenge of Terrorism and Failed States. The lecture is scheduled for Feb. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Dendy McNair Auditorium on the Eckerd campus. The lecture, part of the Christian L. and Edna M. March International Relations Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.
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