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"Why the Constitution is Important to You" is the topic for a free Polaris Lecture by Doug Pope By: Staff Sep 11, 2009 ANCHORAGE, AK – UAA hosts the 2009 Constitution Day Polaris Lecture entitled “Why the Constitution is Important to You,” on Thursday, Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307.
The speaker, Doug Pope, is a well-known and highly respected Anchorage attorney. Pope graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and earned his J.D. at Willamette University Law School.
Pope will discuss Supreme Court cases that involved students here in Alaska, as well as around the U.S. “Young people tend to challenge authority and status quo, and that is when the Constitution comes into play,” Pope said.
Following the lecture will be a brief ceremony installing the new Forty-Ninth State Fellows’ freshman class who have taken the name Anuniaq, an Inuit word meaning the search for sustenance, as food or knowledge.
The annual Constitution Day Polaris Lecture is presented by the Forty-Ninth State Fellows Program of the University Honors College. The Forty-Ninth State Fellows Program is supported in part by grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the UAA Polaris Society.
This event is free and open to the public. Parking at UAA is free after 7:30 p.m.
For additional information about this event or UAA’s Polaris Lectures, please contact Stephen Haycox at (907) 786-1978 or afswh1@uaa.alaska.edu, or Louise Lazur at (907) 786-1051 or anlcl@uaa.alaska.edu.
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