2005 Milton Eisenhower Symposium Speaker list

•JAMES CARVILLE-Sept. 22 at 8 pm
•KATE MICHELMAN-Oct. 5 at 8 pm
•DICK MORRIS-Oct. 18 at 8 pm
•FRANK NEWPORT-Nov. 2 at 8 pm
•NEAL BAER-Nov. 15 at 8 pm
•PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY-Nov. 29 at 8 pm
•JENNIFER GILBERT

The Milton Eisenhower symposium are an annual affair at Johns Hopkins University. Past speakers have included Ann Coulter, Michael Moore, Pat Buchanan, Oliver North, Justice Scalia, and many others.

They are normally held at Shriver Hall and are free and open to the public. Seating is usually not a problem with Jerry Springer being the only exception that I know of. There is usually ample pay parking.

Here the speakers get to shed their usual media schtick and actually make thoughtful comments about a variety of issues.

Questions from the audience are often accepted. Click the link for more up to date information.

Shriver Hall is a lovely building, on a campus that is getting so crowded with buildings that near-by parking is practically non-existent. Cindy Sheehan appeared there last night. Only one paragraph deep in a Balto Sun article commented on her appearance. The title of the article was "Student activists battle apathy." No slant there!!!!! Apparently "activists" are having trouble getting people interested in going to DC this weekend! Professors and grad students are promoting it. Undergrads are not interested.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/iraq/bal-te.md.activism21sep21,1,219931.story?page=2&coll=bal-home-headlines

Shriver Hall

Shriver Hall was built between 1952 and 1954. In 1939, Alfred Jenkins Shriver, a local lawyer who specialized in estates and testaments, left the University the residue of his estate to build a lecture hall. According to the conditions of the will, the building's walls were adorned with murals depicting the Hopkins class of 1891 (Shriver's class), ten philanthropists of Baltimore, ten "famous beauties of Baltimore" (as chosen by Shriver), the original Hopkins faculties of philosophy and medicine, the original Boards of Trustees of the Univesity and Hospital, and Baltimore clipper ships. In addition, statues of President Daniel Coit Gilman (pictured at right) and William H. Welch, first dean of the School of Medicine, flank the entrance to the building. There is also a bust of Isaiah Bowman in a niche under the porch. Had the University declined the bequest, it would have been offered to Loyola College, and then to Goucher College, under similiar conditions.

The local Fox broadcast affiliate in Baltimore covered Sheehan's visit last night on their 10 o'clock program. They are usually pretty fair -- unlike the DC affiliate -- but I was disappointed in their coverage, which seemed sympathetic to her viewpoint. They did show comments from 2 students who disagreed with Sheehan, but one of them sounded like a dope.

"At St. John's College in Annapolis, several students said they felt distant from the war, immersed in the school's Great Books curriculum that tends to focus discussions more on the past and on philosophical concepts.

The students there said the issue of whether the United States should pull all of its troops from Iraq is more complicated now than it was at the start of the war. If the United States pulled out, Iraq would be left in turmoil that they felt this country created."
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They don't exactly sound stupid. So some schools still have a "Great Books" curriculum?

They have roughly equal numbers on the left, right, and center who speak.

Jesse Jackson, Michael Dukakis were two other speakers.

My memory is more of conservative speakers because those are the ones I go to.

Carville and Buchanan did a joint appearance once. Greta Van Sustren also did one appearance.

They really have tried hard to allow for a wide range of speakers.

They invited Charlton Heston, but he declined for medical reasons one year.

Overall, I think they are pretty fair about it.

Further, I have found that the "screaming talking heads" you see on tv, actually are pretty level headed in this setting when the cameras are not on.

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