Debate Calendar for Students

Deana Claiborne, past President of the League of Women Voters of Tennessee, will speak about women's right to vote. Ms. Claiborne is an avid proponent of voter registration efforts and frequently speak on voting issues in this county. She has organized two Tennessee statewide and regional gubernatorial debates and the statewide Senate debate between Harold Ford Jr. and Bob Corker, served on the Disability Advisory Committee to Senator Bill Frist, is currently on the Disability Advisory Committee to U.S. Representative Jim Cooper and has been appointed by Mayor Karl Dean to the Metro Nashville Special Education Advisory Committee.

Bud Johnson, an apathetic, beer-slinging, lovable loser, is coasting through a life that has passed him by. The one bright spot is his precocious, overachieving, 12-year-old daughter Molly. She takes care of both of them, until one mischievous moment on Election Day, when she accidentally sets off a chain of events that culminates in the election coming down to one vote...her dad's.

Dr. Vaughn May, Belmont political science department chair, and members of the department will explore issues of faith, politics and their role in a Christian university.

James Loewen wrote the best-selling Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong, in part a critique of existing textbooks, but also an account of American history as it should be taught. His most recent book is Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. His other books include Lies Across America: What Our Historic Markers and Monuments Get Wrong; The Truth About Columbus; and Mississippi: Conflict and Change, which won the Lillian Smith Award for Best Southern Nonfiction.

Dr. Sandra Rosenthal, chemistry professor and director of the Vanderbilt University Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, will deliever the keynote address for the Science Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Dr. Louis Gross, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics and director of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis at The University of Tennessee, will deliver the keynote address for the annual Vaughn Science Lecture.