Date:    10/9/02
Contact: Peter Cohen at (864) 656-4762
Writer:  Susan Bedingfield (864) 656-3876;sbeding@clemson.edu

Amnesty International director
will speak at Clemson Oct. 22

     CLEMSON   Clemson University will present the executive director
of Amnesty International, USA on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m. as the
Fall Honors Convocation for the Calhoun Honors College.
	William F. Schulz will speak at Self Auditorium in the Strom 
Thurmond Institute on the Clemson University campus. Admission is free, 
and the lecture is open to the public. 
     Schulz will speak on "Terror, Torment and Tyranny: The State of
Human Rights Today." 
     Schulz was appointed director of Amnesty International USA in 
1994. He has received the Harry S. Truman Award for International 
Leadership, and the American Humanist Association chose him "Humanist 
of the Year" in 2000. 
     He has delivered lectures at Yale Political Union, Oxford 
University, McGill, Columbia, Penn and Northwestern. He is a frequent 
speaker at the World Affairs Council meetings, corporate groups and 
international settings. 
     His new book is entitled "In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending 
Human Rights Benefits Us All." 
	The Calhoun Honors College and Strom Thurmond Institute are 
lecture sponsors. The Clemson University Bookstore will sponsor a book 
signing after the presentation. 
     For more information, contact Peter Cohen at (864) 656-4762 or 
check out the Calhoun Honor's College web page at 
http://www.clemson.edu, click on academics and then Calhoun Honors 
College. 
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