A Center for Civic Engagement event in celebration of Black History Month
Special guest speaker: Fred Brewington, Esq.
Attorney, community advocate, recipient of the King, Gandhi, Ikeda Award
Opening performance by Hofstra';s political theater group In Touch Arts

Location: Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater

For more information, call 463-5640

New York and 21 Other States Vote in the Most Important Primaries in Decades!

Hear Hofstra students share their firsthand observations of the New Hampshire primary campaigns Stay and watch the returns roll in with other interested citizens

- Multiple Screen Multiple Network TV Coverage
- Computer area: Bring Your Laptop To Get Up to the Minute Web Updates
- Mix with politicians and political science professors and get their views
- Talk politics in our politics conversation pit

Location: Studio A, Dempster Hall

History Will Be Made on February 5, 2008 - be a part of it!

Join us for the first-FOREX symposium sponsored by the Journal of International Business and Law at the Hofstra University School of Law. Now in our 7th year of production, the Journal seeks to bring its interdisciplinary focus of business and law to a day full of panel discussions on the current issues regarding the Foreign Exchange Market (FOREX)

More information and registration available at http://law.hofstra.edu/Academics/Journals/JIBL/FOREXSymposium/index.html

Discussion topics include:

• Healthcare
• Economic stimulus
• Education
• Environment
• Iraq
• Iran
• Immigration
• Taxes

Location: Plaza Rooms, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus
For more information, please contact Malcolm Malone via e-mail.

Ann Wright, Author of "Dissent: Voices of Conscience," former distinguished career diplomat and Colonel, U.S. Army

Question-and-answer period to follow.

Location: Room 246, East Library Wing (Business Development Center), Second Floor, Axinn Library, South Campus
Admission: Free
For more information and locations, please call Professor Carolyn Eisenberg, Department of History, at (516) 463-3321, or Professor Martin Melkonian, Department of Economics, at (516) 463-5595.

Bring: Classes, friends, family, guests, the sick, the well, the uninsured.

Location: Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center Theater, North Campus
Admission: Free

For more information, or to RSVP please call 516.463.2888.

Refreshments will be served.

Steven Kinzer, N.Y. Times correspondent author, All the Shah's Men, Overthrow: Americans' Century of Regime Change

Question-and-answer period to follow.

Location: Leo A. Guthart Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
Admission: Free
For more information and locations, please call Professor Carolyn Eisenberg, Department of History, at (516) 463-3321, or Professor Martin Melkonian, Department of Economics, at (516) 463-5595.

Location: Plaza Room East, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus

Televisions will be on-hand to watch and discuss the next Presidential primaries.

Refreshments will be served.

Location: Rochelle and Irwin A. Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, 10th Floor, South Campus

Admission: Fee; Hofstra faculty, students and staff: Free except for formal conference meals.

Schedule of events and more information available at: http://law.hofstra.edu/NewsAndEvents/Conferences/StemCellConf/index.html

Community/Alumni current events discussion group led by Dr. Herbert D. Rosenbaum, Professor Emeritus, Political Science. Recommended reading will be shared with all those who RSVP.

Location: Libby and Joseph G. Shapiro Alumni House (South Campus)

RSVP: 516-463-6636 or via email to Sandra.J.Lombino@hofstra.edu

Jonathan Schell, Correspondent, The Nation magazine, author, The Fate of the Earth, The Seventh Decade

Question-and-answer period to follow.

Location: Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, 10th Floor, South Campus
Admission: Free

Ellen McLaughlin (award winning playwright, director, actor) directs a staged reading with Hofstra students of the classic anti-war play, Lysistrata

Location: Plaza Rooms, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus
Admission: Free

Join Hofstra journalism professors Peter Goodman and Mo Krochmal, Newsday political reporter Rick Brand, and political reporter and blogger Azi Paybarah of Politicker.com, the daily blog of the New York Observer, for a lively discussion about the real and potential impact of new information technologies; blogs, social networking, YouTube, fact-checking websites, and CNN's I-Report, among others;on the election process.

The panel will be moderated by Hofstra media studies professor Mary Ann Allison, PhD.

Location: Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus
Admission: Free; to register for the event or for more information, call (516) 463-7200 or click here.

Long Island Congressman Steve Israel joins county executives from Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester Counties to discuss how to forge political and social consensus within suburbia for allying with cities - as equal partners - to create powerful metro areas that would allow the nation to better compete globally.

Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy and Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano will be among those participating in a daylong conference co-sponsored by Hofstra's National Center for Suburban Studies and the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., one of the world's most respected academic institutes. Bruce Katz, vice president and director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, will deliver an address on "MetroNation: Blueprint for American Prosperity."

Following the morning session, Mr. Katz will recap his presentation at the afternoon session from 12:45 to 2:10 p.m. Participating in that session are Gerald E. Frug, Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and author, City Making: Building Communities Without Building Walls; Juliet Gainsborough, assistant professor, International Studies, Bentley College, author, Fenced Off: The Suburbanization of American Politics; Michael Kruglik, national director of MetroEquity for the Gamaliel Foundation; and Todd Swanstrom, professor of Public Policy Studies, Saint Louis University, co-author, Place Matters: Metropolitics in the Twenty-first Century and editor, The St. Louis Metropolitan Research Exchange; and Lisa Tyson, director, Long Island Progressive Coalition.

Location: Hofstra University Club, David S. Mack Hall, North Campus.

Admission is free but registration is required.
To register, contact Ina Katz at (516) 463-9939 or via E-mail.

Adam Nagourney, Chief Political Correspondent, The New York Times

Reception begins at 6 p.m. with discussion and Q & A to follow at 6:30 p.m.
Admission: Free and open to the public

Paul Krugman, Economist, Op Ed Writer N.Y. Times, author, Conscience of a Liberal

Question-and-answer period to follow.

Location: Monroe Lecture Hall, California Avenue, South Campus
Admission: Free

Panels include:

• Running for President in the 21st Century
• Political Communication in Presidential Campaigns
• Governing in the White House

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: "Winning and Governing the White House in the 21st Century" by Charlie Cook, publisher, The Cook Political Report; political analyst, National Journal Group and NBC News; columnist, National Journal Magazine, CongressDailyAM and the Washington Quarterly

Location: Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center Theater, North Campus

Admission: Fee; scholarships are available for high school groups.

For a detailed program or for registration information, please visit the symposium's website

Annette Grevious and Shakirah DeMesier, with members of IN TOUCH ARTS performing excerpts of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf

Location: TBA

Featuring James Klurfeld, Newsday columnist and former editor of Newsday's editorial pages; Lawrence Levy, director of Hofstra's National Center for Suburban Studies and former Newsday political columnist; and Herbert Rosenbaum, professor emeritus of political science.

Mr. Klurfeld and Mr. Levy will discuss the elections from the journalist's perspective.
Dr. Rosenbaum will focus his remarks on the Congressional elections.

Location: Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, Plaza Room West, North Campus
Admission: Free and open to the public

For more information: http://mailto:kleinhaklein@aol.com

• Washington Post reporter and William J. Clinton biographer, David Maraniss
• Professor Emeritus of Princeton University and presidential expert, Fred Greenstein
• New York Times reporter and Condoleezza Rice biographer, Elisabeth Bumiller

Location: Room 246, Scott Skodnek Business Development Center, South Campus
Admission: Free and open to public

• Free 21st Century Buffet; brought to you by Lackmann
• Music by Antler
• Green Ideas Contest
• Earth Friendly Products and Books for Sale
• Clothing Exchange
• Dramatic Presentation on Rachel Carson
• Smart Car

• "How Climate Change will Change Long Island" with Prof. E. Christa Farmer, Hofstra University
• "The Future of Green" 
• "Engineering on Suburban Living" with Prof. Margaret Hunter, Hofstra University
• "Is it Possible to Live "Green" in the Suburbs?" with Prof. Eric Strauss, Director, Urban Ecology Institute, Boston College
• "New York's Legal Battle against Global Warming" with Peter Washburn, NYS Attorney General's Environmental Protection Bureau

The seventh annual festival of new and classic movies on work and working people around the world organized by Hofstra University's Labor Studies Program and the Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy. Each film is scheduled during a class period and introduced by a Hofstra professor, who leads a discussion period following each showing.

Location: Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
Admission: Free; seating is limited (first-come, first-seated)

For film schedule and further information, please call the Labor Studies Office at (516) 463-5040 or visit hofstra.edu/laborstudies.

Hofstra's second annual Day of Peace will include performances by:

• Hofstra's Percussion Ensemble
• Students in the department of dance
• Sigma'Cappella, the only co-ed vocal acapella group at Hofstra
• Hofstra Jazz Nonet

Flags will be displayed representing every international student at Hofstra, along with the American flag.
Free vegetarian food will be available.

Location: Calkins Quad, South Campus
For more information, please call (516) 463-6816.

"Israel: The Next 60 Years"
Michael Tuchfeld, Editor, chief anchor and commentator, TV2, The Knesset Channel, Jerusalem, Israel

Location: Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus

Ticket information: On sale beginning April 22, 2008

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt - four of America's greatest presidents, immortalized on the face of Mount Rushmore. Where will this year's president-elect eventually stand in the eyes of history? What can we learn from our greatest leaders of the past? For three thought-provoking days, you can journey through the history of each of these presidencies and see how they affected the culture and livelihood of America.

The program is presented by Dr. Meena Bose, Peter S. Kalikow Chair in Presidential Studies at Hofstra University and Director of Hofstra's Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency.

Location: Chemistry/Physics Building, California Avenue, South Campus
Admission: $120 for the three day program

For more information, call (877) 426-8056 or visit www.elderhostel.org.

A viewing of Body of War, a documentary film produced and directed by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro, following the physical and emotional journey of Tomas Young, an injured Iraq war veteran.

Discussion and analysis to follow.

For more information about this event, please call (516) 463-5595.

Location: Monroe Lecture Center Theater, California Avenue, South Campus

Sponsored by the President's Educate '08 Event Series, the Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency, and the John D. Miller Fund at the Long Island Community Foundation

• Professor Emeritus Herbert D. Rosenbaum
• Professor Emeritus Paul Harper
• Professor Emeritus William F. Levantrosser
• Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (HCLAS) Dean Bernard J. Firestone
• Former HCLAS Dean Robert Vogt
• Professor Emeritus and former Law School Dean Eric Schmertz

Featured speakers: William T. Biamonte (D) and John A. DeGrace (R) Nassau County Board of Elections Commissoners and Paula Blum co-president of the League of Women Voters of Nassau County

Moderated by: Jeffrey Wice, Professor, Hofstra University School of Law
• Learn about the mechanics of how elections are conducted!
• Learn about the process behind-the-scenes on election day!
• Find out about election day employment opportunities!
Location: Room 206, Hofstra University School of Law, South Campus

For more information, please call (516) 463-0417.

• Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations; columnist, Washington Post; contributor Time; editor-at-large, The New Republic
• Dr. Jay M. Parker, visiting associate professor in Georgetown University's Department of Government, adjunct associate professor in the graduate school faculties at Columbia University and George Washington University, and a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency. In 2005, Dr. Parker retired from the United States Army in the rank of Colonel after 26 years of active duty service. He also served for more than a decade as professor of political and international affairs and director of International Relations and National Security Studies, Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy at West Point.
• Nancy Soderberg, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1997-2001); third ranking official of National Security Council at the White House (1993-1997); and Deputy Director of the Presidential Transition for National Security. She also held senior positions in the presidential campaigns of '96, '92, '88 and '84.

A multi-perspective, one-day conference on public issues facing the nation. Designed specifically to help Hofstra students become informed voters and encourage dialogue between people of differing views. The conference will feature over 15 separate events covering both domestic and foreign policy issues.
Featured foreign policy events include:

• Returning soldiers' views of the Iraq war
• A panel about the United States policy on Iran
• Panels about the United States and how it is viewed by other nations
• A guided dialogue about issues facing Israel and Palestine

Domestic policy events will tackle such issues as the economy and energy policy, race and gender politics and the role of religion in the presidential election.
Featured domestic policy events include:

• Heritage or Hate, a documentary film by Hofstra University Professor of journalism Dr. Gregory Smith, about the differing views on the meaning of the Confederate Flag
• Dr. Allen Weinstein, archivist of the United States
• Diana Carlin, a professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas and DebateWatch founder will discuss how debates such as John F. Kennedy vs. Richard Nixon can shape electoral politics
• Joe Szabo, political cartoonist speaking about "Immigrants and/in America"

Dr. Allen Weinstein, archivist of the United States, National Archives and Records Administration

Location: 246 East Library Wing (BDC), Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, Second Floor, South Campus

A community town hall meeting featuring:

• Mark T. Bertolini, president, Aetna Inc.
• Sara R. Collins, Ph.D. assistant vice president, Program on the Future of Health Insurance, The Commonwealth Fund
• Michael J. Dowling, president & CEO, North Shore-LIJ Health System, and chairman, National Center for Healthcare Leadership
• Richard J. Umbdenstock, president, American Hospital Association
• David M. Weiss, Ph.D. associate professor, health professions and family studies, Hofstra University

Location: Student Center Theater, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus

America's award-winning musical presented by Hofstra Entertainment!
Music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards
Book by Peter Stone
Based on a concept by Sherman Edwards
Directed by Sal Salerno
Musical direction by William W. Williams

A sparkling re-creation of those momentous days when John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, along with members of the Second Continental Congress, argued about, voted on and signed the Declaration of Independence.

Location: John Cranford Adams Playhouse, South Campus

Admission/Tickets: Fee; one free ticket for student with current HofstraCard (all seats reserved)
For tickets and information, please call the John Cranford Adams Playhouse Box office at (516) 463-6644, M-F, 11 a.m.-3:45 p.m., or visit hofstra.edu/HofstraEntertainment

For more information, please contact Dr. Martin Blum, assistant dean of Hofstra's School of Education and Health Professions, at Martin.Blum@hofstra.edu or (516) 463-5389.

Featuring Diana Carlin, professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas. Ms. Carlin served on the advisory board for the Commission on Presidential Debates from 1987 until 2000 and during that time she developed DebateWatch through a grant from the Ford Foundation in 1996.

Her talk will be followed at 9 p.m. by a large-screen viewing and discussion of the first presidential debate.

Location: Student Center Theater, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus

Admission: Free and open to the public

A conversation with former New York Governor Mario Cuomo and President of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass

Location: John Cranford Adams Playhouse, South Campus

While this event is free and open to the public, seating is limited. Students and faculty will receive preference during registration and seating. Due to this intense interest in this event, all attendees must register in advance by clicking here. (Registering via this system represents a request for tickets to the event. You will be notified via e-mail within 48 hours regarding the status of your request. There is a limit of two tickets per request.)

For more information about this event, please call (516) 463-5669.

Hofstra professors provide advice and guidance about how to watch and interpret a presidential debate.
Panel discussion followed at 9 p.m. by a large-screen viewing of the debate.

Location: Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center Theater, North Campus

Admission: Free and open to the public

Featuring legendary folksinger, composer and lyricist Oscar Brand;
John Foley, guitar;
Jordan brand, bass;
Torrie Lloyd-Masters, guest vocalist

Join us on the musical campaign trail and enjoy some of the most humorous and telling campaign and election songs ever compsed (or decomposed for that matter!). You'll delight in the songs and their musical history. Selections include Follow Washington, I'm Just Wild About Harry, Get On a Raft With Taft, Irving Berlin's Blue Skies With Hoover, The Same Old Merry Go Round, This Land is Your Land, and Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow, as well as original songs from Oscar Brand's political musicals How to Steal an Election and Fun and Games.

Location: Monroe Lecture Center Theater, California Avenue, South Campus

For tickets and information, please call the John Cranford Adams Playhouse Box Office at (516)463-6644, Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., or order online at hofstra.edu/hofstraentertainment

• Liz Nord, Supervising Producer of MTV's Choose or Lose Campaign
• Sarah Glidden, comic artist/author of How To Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
• Brent Weitzberg, Hofstra student government president, 2007-08

Featuring Michael Cohen, senior research fellow, New America Foundation

Mr. Cohen is the author of Live from the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the Twentieth Century and How They Shaped Modern America. He was a speechwriter for the State Department in the Clinton administration, and he also has worked in corporate communications. He is a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, and he has taught speechwriting and political rhetoric at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Please visit livefromthetrail.com for more information.

Location: 246 East Library Wing (BDC), Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, Second Floor, South Campus

For more information about this event, please call (516) 463-5669.

• Nouriel Roubini, Ph.D. is a professor of economics and international business at New York University Stern School of Business. Before joining NYU, he was a faculty member of the Economics Department at Yale University (1988-1995); senior economist for international affairs at the White House Council of Economic Advisers (1998-1999); senior advisor to the Under Secretary for International Affairs and the director of the Office of Policy Development and Review at the U.S. Treasury Department (1999- 2000). He worked on the resolution of the Asian and global financial crises of 1997-1998 and the reform of the international financial architecture after these crises.

• Alice M. Rivlin, Ph.D., is senior fellow with the Metropolitan Policy Program, Economic Studies Director, Greater Washington Research at Brookings Institution. Currently a visiting professor at the Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University, Dr. Rivlin was the first director of the Congressional Budget Office (1975-83). Her previous positions include the Henry Cohen Professor, Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University (2001-2003); chair, District of Columbia Financial Management Assistance Authority (1998-2001); vice chair, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (1996-99); and director, White House Office of Management and Budget (1994-96).

A workshop given by Andrea Libresco, Associate Professor, Curriculum & Teaching

Come join us for strategies and discussion about how to teach up to and beyond the elections in your elementary and middle school classes - grades 4-8.

Location: Hagedorn Lobby, North Campus
To RSVP email http://mailto:hnet@hofstra.edu
Questions: Contact Barbara Calvo at (516) 463-5070

Hofstra professors provide advice and guidance about how to watch and interpret a presidential debate.

Panel discussion followed at 9 p.m. by a large-screen viewing of the debate.

Refreshments will be served.

Location: Student Center Theater, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus

Admission: Free and open to the public

Hofstra University and Hofstra Concerts, as part of Educate 08, present a concert, featuring Atlantic Records recording artist Jason Mraz, for all Hofstra students. Lisa Hannigan and a couple of Hofstra student groups will also be performing.

In addition, there will be an "Express Yourself" area where students will present displays and activities about the various issues affecting the U.S. and the world today.  Complimentary food and other festivities will be on hand.

Admission: Doors open at 11:30 a.m. This event is only open to Hofstra students (with their Hofstra University ID); no guests will be permitted.

Location: Intramural Fields, North Campus

Suggested Donation: Non perishable food item for "rock CAN roll"
rock CAN roll, Inc., is a volunteer, 501c3, non-profit, hunger relief organization and think tank. We collaborate with rock concerts, schools, corporations, and private individuals to collect canned and non-perishable food (and basic provisions) for distribution to local agencies and into the hands of children, seniors and families who live with hunger and in poverty.

For more information, contact the Dean of Students Office at (516) 463-6913.

Hofstra’s College Republicans and Hofstra’s College Democrats will battle it out in a spirited but friendly series of games and activities, culminating in a tug-of-war competition. All students welcome to attend. Republicans wear red, Democrats blue.

Location: Hofstra Recreation Center, North Campus.

For more information, please contact the Recreation Center at (516) 463-6958.

The documentary 14 Women follows the 14 female senators who were in the U.S. Senate from 2004-2006, showing them as they govern while balancing their families, friends, staff, and work loads.

Location: Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, South Campus

The Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) brings improv comedy with a political bent to Hofstra's campus.  The UCB Touring Company has launched the careers of many stars, including cast members of Saturday Night Live.  See tomorrow's stars on campus today!

Location: Hofstra USA, North Campus

Admission: Open to Hofstra students with a valid Hofstra ID card

Hofstra University President Stuart Rabinowitz will ring the opening bell at the NASDAQ stock exchange in honor of Hofstra's historic hosting of the third and final 2008 presidential debate on October 15, 2008.

The actual ringing of the bell will take place at 9:30 a.m. at the start of the day's trading.
Representatives of NASDAQ and Hofstra will speak prior to the ringing of the bell.

NOTE: This event is NOT open to members of the public.

American democracy comes to life on Hofstra's campus in live performance as fully costumed, professional living history performers assisted by top student performers create a series of historical presentations that highlight pivotal moments in our nation's story. The program, conducted primarily in four "revival tents" reminiscent of 19th century Chautauqua traveling educational performances, provides civic education about major American accomplishments, inspiring words and the commitment to democracy and its attributes that made them possible.

Keynote event (9:15 - 11 a.m.): John and Abigail Adams will warm up the crowd with a brief exchange from their famous letters; Abraham Lincoln and Black Abolitionist Frederick Douglass will take on perhaps the most serious issues the nation has ever faced - slavery, civil war and the status of Black Americans.
Location: John Cranford Adams Playhouse

Other featured protrayals include Will Rogers, Walt Whitman, Frances B. Harper, Robert Frost, Mother Jones, Susan B. Anthony, Victoria Woodhull, Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm, Patsy Takemoto Mink, Teddy and Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and the Statue of Liberty

All other events will take place in one of four "revival tents" located on Hofstra's south campus and are scheduled as follows:
11:10 a.m.-12:35 p.m.
12:45 p.m.-2:10 p.m.
2:20-3:45 p.m.

Admission: All events are free and open to the public; tent events will have seating for 100 audience members.

To register, use the following link:
Register for Event

The culmination of the Educate '08 "Debating as Performance Art" workshop focusing primarily on the creation of short plays in a debate format using the tenets of Neo-Futurism, a form of performance art created at Stage Left Theater in Chicago and best know for the long running Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.

New York Neo-Futurist company member Christopher Dippel directs this high-energy, entertaining event.

Location: Emily and Jerry Spiegel Theater, South Campus

Hofstra University is pleased to be the site of the third presidential debate of the 2008 campaign, produced by the Commission on Presidential Debates, a nonpartisan organization.

As seating is limited for this prestigious event, only current Hofstra University students may apply for a ticket to the debate. More information is available at hofstra.edu/debate.

For a complete list of events and activities taking place at Hofstra University on October 15th, click here.

Over the next two years, the largest federal agencies project that they will need to fill nearly 193,000 job openings. With the growing need to attract top talent, an increase in the amount agencies are spending on student loan repayment, signing bonuses and relocation expenses, and unparalleled opportunities to pursue a wide array of career experiences, this is a great time to consider a career in the federal government. The government offers employment opportunities across the country and around the world to candidates from every academic discipline. This event features Hofstra graduates who are working in federal service positions as well as a representative from the federal government who can offer advice on how to find and apply for a job or internship with a federal agency.

Location: 106 Breslin Hall, South Campus

Lunch with be served.

Hofstra's Department of Counseling Research Special Education and Rehabilitation in the School of Education and Health Professions, invites you to experience screenings of memorable thought provoking and enjoyable films related to the field of developmental disabillities.

There will be four unique programs showcasing a selection of shorts, documentaries and narratives generating discussion on the issues impacting individuals with disabilities as it relates to the presidential campaign.

Following each program will be question and answer sessions with experts in the field including Hofstra faculty and film makers.

The Film Festival will be programmed and supported by Sprout, a New York City based non-profit organization dedicated to bringing innovative programming about individuals with disabilities.

Location: Hagedorn Hall, South Campus

Admission: Registration is required, please visit our registration site for registration information

For more information about this event please call (516) 463-5778.

Featuring Dr. Winnifred Sullivan, associate professor and director of law and religion at the University at Buffalo Law School, State University of New York.

The general theme of this talk will be the role of religion in the presidental election, and the views of the candidates on the role and purpose of incarceration, and the place of religion within our penal system.

Location: David Filderman Gallery, Joan and and Donald E. Axinn Library, 10th Floor, South Campus

For more information about this event, please call (516) 463-5614.

About Dr. Sullivan
Dr. Sullivan earned earned a J.D. in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1993, both from the University of Chicago. In addition to numerous articles, she is the author of Paying the Words Extra: Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States (Harvard, 1995); The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (Princeton, 2005) and Prison Religion: Faith-based Reform and the Constitution (Princeton, 2009).

The first presidential campaign commercials appeared in 1952.  Although candidates have continued to use traditional methods of reaching the public (making speeches, traveling around the country, advertising in print and on radio), television has become an essential addition to these activities, and probably the medium that reaches the most voters. Television commercials use all the tools of fiction filmmaking, including script, visuals, editing, and performance, to distill a candidate's major campaign themes into a few powerful images.

David Schwartz, Chief Curator of the Museum of the Moving Image guides us through more than 40 years of “presidential” TV commercials.

Location: Student Center Theater, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus

For more information, please call (516) 463-5217.

Featuring Dee Dee Myers and Ari Fleischer, former White House Press Secretaries

Location: Monroe Lecture Center Theater, California Avenue, South Campus

A talk by Lillian Rodríguez López, President of the Hispanic Federation, a non-profit membership organization serving over 90 Latino health and human service agencies in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.

Location: Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, room 141

For more information email oriana3.kappa@gmail.com

Critic Roger Ebert called Primary Colors "a superb film--funny, insightful and very wise about the realities of political life."

Please join us as we screen this film starring John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton and Kathy Bates.

Question & Answer sessiont to follow with Time Magazine's Joe Klein who authored the book Primary Colors under the pseudonym "Anonymous.:

Location: Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, South campus

For more information call (516) 463-5217.

Featuring Governor Michael Dukakis

Location: Monroe Lecture Center Theater, California Avenue, South Campus

Admission: Free and open to the public
For more information contact (516) 463-5616

About Mr. Dukakis
Michael Dukakis was the 1988 Democratic Presidential Nominee and twice governor of Massachusetts (1974-79, 1983-91).  He is currently a distinguished professor in Northeastern University's political science department. He also has taught in the senior executive program for state and local managers at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and at Florida Atlantic University.

• Steven Greenhouse, New York Times reporter and author of The Big Squeeze
• David Sirota, nationally syndicated columnist and author of new bestseller The Uprising
• Teresa Ghilarducci, pension economist and author of When I'm 64: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them
• Timothy Bishop, Long Island Congressman

Featuring Dr. Stuart Altman, Dean of The Heller School for Social Policy and Management and
Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University

This event is the first of a three-part Health Policy Breakfast Series to address critical issues in health care and reform. The breakfast series was established to set the stage for a large-scale national conference, "New Directions in American Health Care: Innovations from Home and Abroad" to be hosted by Hofstra University in early 2010. Key players in the health care reform debate, including policymakers, providers, and analysts, will participate in both the breakfast series and the conference events.

Location: Hofstra University Club, David S. Mack Hall, North Campus

Admission is by invitation only.

This event is organized by the Hofstra University Health Policy Conference Planning Committee: Janet Dolgin, Ph.D., J.D. (Law); Rachel Kreier, Ph.D. (Economics); Corinne Kyriacou, Ph.D. (Community Health); David Weiss, Ph.D. (Health Administration)

About Dr. Stuart Altman:
Stuart H. Altman holds an M.A. and Ph.D. degree in Economics from UCLA and taught at Brown University and the Graduate School of Public Policy at University of California at Berkeley.

• Betsyann Faiella, vocals
• Tedd Firth, piano
• Fred Fudrucker, bass