Topic: politics
Video: Law school convenes leaders of renewable energy sector
6 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
On April 23-24, Lewis & Clark Law School and the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program hosted legal and energy leaders from across the country at a conference, Greening the Grid: Building a Legal Framework for Carbon Neutrality. They met to discuss the laws needed to support the growth of low- or no-carbon energy sources [...]
Blog: Professor of Education helps normalize conditions in Afghanistan
2 April 2009
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- Engaging our World
Education Professor Zaher Wahab splits his time between Lewis & Clark and Afghanistan, devoting six months of service each year to the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education. He is dedicated to helping normalize conditions in Afghanistan, and he believes “quality, equal and universal education is the key to establishing peace, security, democracy, harmony, and a [...]
Video: Students bring war pundits to campus for International Affairs Symposium
2 April 2009
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- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
A small group of students set out on a quest to develop an conference to address a series of serious questions facing the international community about the rules of war, who participates in war and how war is covered. The International Affairs Symposium, A World of Warfare: Dynamics of Conflict, brings together well-known international affairs [...]
Slideshow: Lewis & Clark professor creates first master’s degree program in war-torn Afghanistan
25 November 2008
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- Engaging our World
Every year, Lewis & Clark Professor of Education Zaher Wahab leaves Portland to devote four months of service to the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education. Early this year, he worked with Kabul Education University to create Afghanistan’s first master’s degree program for teacher education faculty. The first cohort is made up of eleven men and eleven [...]
Law school professor John Kroger wins election for Oregon State Attorney General
7 November 2008
- Engaging our World
John Kroger, professor of criminal law and jurisprudence, won the election for state attorney general in Oregon on November 4 in a landslide victory. While Kroger ran on the Democratic ticket, he also won the nomination the Republican party through write-ins in the primary. He has named Oregon Solicitor General and Lewis & Clark Law [...]
Student puts Lewis & Clark in top five on “green vote” initiative
4 November 2008
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- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
Over the course of the fall semester, sophomore Rachel Young, president of the environmental organization Students Engaged in Eco-Defense, has been talking with hundreds of her peers about clean energy solutions and asking them to consider making the issue a priority in their voting decision this November. Those she has been able to persuade have [...]
Students challenge traditional immigration politics to expand understanding of global migration
27 October 2008
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- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
Discussion of immigration has long been highly politicized and in America, often devolves into debate about Mexican immigration to the United States. A group of Lewis & Clark students are asking people to reconsider their understanding of immigration and its effects on the country. The Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium, Landscapes of Migration, will focus on [...]
Portland Mayor-elect to speak at Lewis & Clark
25 September 2008
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- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—Portland Mayor-elect Sam Adams will speak at Lewis & Clark on Oct. 7 as part of National Coming Out Week. Currently serving as a Portland city commissioner, Adams will assume mayoral duties in January, 2009. National Coming Out events are designed to promote public awareness of issues that affect people who identify as lesbian, gay, [...]
Professors offer political analysis on youth vote in Oregon
14 May 2008
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—John Callahan, Morgan Odell Professor of Humanities, and Robert Eisinger, associate professor of political science, recently spoke with the Seattle Post Intelligencer about the exciting injection of youth participation in Oregon politics this election season. “They’ve got an operation here that looks like the old grass roots, the Eugene McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy campaigns of [...]
Student to hone leadership skills in Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute program
12 May 2008
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(Portland, Ore.)—Dante Perez is one of 32 college students from across the country to earn an internship with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute . The sophomore international affairs major will spend this summer in Washington, D.C., working in a congressional office and honing his public leadership skills. A native of Uruapan, in the state [...]