April Happenings

Spring might finally be here! Either way, rain or shine, there are some great PS events going on around campus this week. Get in all of your intellectual stimulation now, since we all know you won't be getting much this weekend.

Events this week:

• Brown Lecture Board presents Howard Dean, Monday, 8 pm: MacMillan Auditorium
• Turbulent Times: How is the economic crisis impacting Rhode Island?, Tuesday, 4 pm: Taubman Center (67 George Street)
• Ricard Lagos on Latin America's Economic Setback, Tuesday, 5 pm: Smitty-B 106
• Human Rights in Israel: Identity, Urgency and Law, Tuesday, 7:30 pm: B&H 166
  
• JPU Student Debate: Should ROTC Be Reinstated at Brown? Tuesday, 8 pm: Wilson 101
  
• Janus Lecture Series: Is Incarceration the Key to Public Safety? with Mark Kleiman, Jeremy Travis and James Q. Wilson, Thursday, 4 pm: List 120
• Perspectives on Urban Legal Structures: Global Reflections, Thursday, 5 pm: Kim Koo Library (Watson)

News Items: A few articles for those interested in Howard Dean's lecture topic, "The Internet Revolution 2.0: A New Age of Politics." There's more to the topic than Congressmen Tweeting away while in session...

• "Chaffee Preparing a Run for RI Governor" ProJo: The visiting Brown professor, alum and former Republican Senator will try his "independent" charm in the crowded Rhode Island gubernatorial race.
• "Wedding Season" Economist: The Economist attempts to explain why Iowa beat out so many other more traditionally 'liberal' states in the move toward allowing gay marriage. The articles also examines the effects that one state's politics can have on an entire region.
  
• "Obama's Rabbi" New York Times: In the spirit of Passover, an interesting look at Capers Funnye, chief rabbi for one of the nation's largest black synagogues, and his relationship to President Obama.