Thursdays 3-4 p.m.
Radcliffe Conference Room
Forman Hall
Next meeting: August 25th
TSU faculty, staff, students and the Angola area community are
invited to attend.
Our focus is on state, national and global politics, not university
issues.
As always, major political news of the past week will be discussed
during the first half of the roundtable. (Including, but not limited
to, those mentioned below.)
- U.S. News
- Congress gives final approval
to new bankruptcy rules
- Frist expected to push for ban
on filibusters
- Frist to join telecast portraying
Democrats as “against faith”
- Stock market suffers major decline
- Congress tackles spy ware concerns
- Schwarzenegger blunders in dispute
with nurses
- Lethal injections questioned
Europe
- Berlusconi coalition in trouble
- More on the French vote (EU constitution)
- Basque voters push for independence
from Spain
- G7 discusses debt relief
(majority of countries are European, I thought I’d
put the story here)
- British police chief in a spot
of trouble
Asia
- China
rejects Japan’s
call for apology
- Malaysian ties to Heritage Foundation
- South Korean driving questions
South America
- Mexico’s
president considers pardon for opposition candidate
- Ecuador
lifts state of emergency
- Indignation in Peru
Science News
- Pediatric vaccine shortages in
U.S.
- Champion racehorse cloned
- New species of beetles influenced
by Bush administration
- Colorado
man in heroic rescue of chicken
Fall Semester Schedule
August 25th – First Meeting
November 24th (Thanksgiving) no meeting
Dec. 1st – Last Meeting
Spring Semester Schedule
January 12th – First Meeting
March 9th – (Spring Break) no meeting
April 20th – Last Meeting
Contact:
Michael Blaz
Dept. Criminal Justice, Psychology & Social Sciences
260.665.4211
blazm@tristate.edu
blazm@yahoo.com
Faculty
Web page
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*not forgetting Camille the border collie, who has manipulative
powers which Machiavelli could only have imagined...
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