AHI sponsors lecture on constitutional jurisprudence
Judge Sutton received a B. A. from Williams College in 1983 and LL. B. from the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University in 1990. He served as a law clerk for Judge Thomas Meskill of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Justice Lewis Powell and Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court. Nominated for the Sixth Circuit by President George W. Bush, Judge Sutton was confirmed by the Senate in 2003.
The lecture, sponsored by the AHI in conjunction with Senior Fellow Ted Eismeier and the Hamilton College government department, is open to the public. See the AHI’s posting, Sutton to Give Inaugural Nelson Lecture, for further details.
We are also pleased to see that the College has also announced the event. Judge Jeffrey Sutton to Present Constitution Day Lecture points out that
The lecture honors David Aldrich Nelson, whom Judge Sutton succeeded on the Sixth Circuit. Judge Nelson was graduated from Hamilton College in 1954, valedictorian of his class. He attended the Harvard Law School and read law as a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University, in England. He has served as a trustee of Hamilton College and as a member of the National Council of the Ohio State University College of Law.
Of course, one would be remiss to not to mention that Judge Nelson is also a founding Director of the Alexander Hamilton Institute.
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It will be a great event, and the AHI is to be commended for getting Judge Sutton to speak!
Readers should take a look at the events at the AHI. You will see an impressive menu of high quality, scholarly events.
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It stands, unfortunately in my view, in contrast to what qualifies as a Great Names speaker these days…none other than Jon Stewart who is rumored to be the most expensive speaker in Hamilton’s history. And don’t you know:
This event will contain language that some people find offensive and
may include content not appropriate for children and adolescents.
Please consider the likely subject matter for this performance when
deciding whether or not to attend.
Thanks for the heads-up, but I’ll pass. Is this the highest and best use of financial and scholarly recources? Or is it fashionable edu-tainment?
hb
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Hamilton's administrators, of course, failed to show up..
We invite the Trustees to ponder the issue.
We also invite the alumni and whomsoever else to compare the what is an increasingly obvious schism of quality.
I regret I was unable to attend personally to support Judge Nelson and the http://theahi.org .
It appears that even basic manners are in short supply on Hamilton's campus.
Compare the fare offered by the AHI.
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/408164.html
AHI and Hamilton are referenced in this article from today's NYT.
http://dartreview.com/archives/2008/09/22/_and_dartmouths_worst.php
"Who Did In the Liberal Arts at Hamilton College? [Candace de Russy]
We higher-education reformers tend to stress the symptoms of liberal arts decay — illiteracy in Western culture, etc. — without pointing a finger at the culprits responsible.
In addition to presenting a strong case study in how Hamilton College has been refashioned to fixate, institutionally, structurally, and from a curricular standpoint, on group identity, as opposed to intellectual diversity, professor Robert Paquette assigns blame to:
"faculty sympathizers" who collude with activist students in their demands to place diversity, not intellect, at the center of campus life (then, I might add, there are those professors who teach and mastermind students in their activism)
see-no-evil faculty who applaud faculty-originated, activist student initiatives "like trained seals"
"poor, consumer-oriented" presidents and deans who, bowing and scraping, endorse and commend these contrived initiatives
and, last but not least, "self-congratulatory, ostrich-like" trustees, who meekly acquiesce to students' demands.
Writing at Minding the Campus, Paquette captures exactly the pattern by which the teachers and leaders who should have defended the liberal arts have joined in demolishing d them, actively and passively.
I recommend taking this a step further and, at every available opportunity, naming the names of the offending faculty, administrators, and trustees. In fact, some demanding and enterprising soul among us should found a website solely devoted to naming and publicizing these names."
"In 2006, at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., opposition from the faculty forced the administration to withdraw its support of an alumni-financed center focused on capitalism, natural law and the role of religion in politics. Many faculty members questioned if Hamilton would have sufficient oversight of it. At the time, the chairman of the faculty assembly, John O’Neil, was quoted as saying, “There are people on the faculty who think this center has an explicit, right tendency.'”
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