FIRST AMENDMENT YEAR

"Wrapped" in the words of the First Amendment, etched in letters six feet high on its windows, Newhouse III serves as a powerful reminder to students and visitors alike that the First Amendment was written not only for journalists, but also to guarantee its five protections for all citizens.

The communications industry has changed dramatically since the first building of the Newhouse Communications Complex opened in 1964, but a Newhouse education is still based on the fundamentals, and the First Amendment continues to serve as the foundation for everything we do.

The dedication of Newhouse III kicks off the Newhouse School's year-long celebration of the First Amendment, with special events held on campus and other locations from September until March. For more information or to get involved, contact Charlotte Grimes at (315) 443-2366 or cgrimes@syr.edu.

Fall

September 18
Supreme Makeover: Inventing a New Model of Judicial Openness on the High Court?
4 p.m.
Grant Auditorium, College of Law

In anticipation of the visit by Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts Jr., a distinguished panel will debate the relationship between court tradition, modern day news coverage and public image making. Panelists include Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and Supreme Court correspondent for Slate.com; Benjamin Wittes, fellow and research director in public law with the Brookings Institution; and Tony Mauro, Supreme Court correspondent for Legal Times, American Lawyer Media and Law.com. Moderator is Mark Obbie, Newhouse associate professor of communications and magazine and director of the Newhouse School’s Carnegie Legal Reporting Program, which is co-sponsoring the event with SU College of Law; the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics and the Media; and the Syracuse Symposium. For more information, contact Obbie at (315) 443-2848 or mjobbie@syr.edu. More information is also available online at http://jpm.syr.edu.

September 20
The Iraq War as a Breakdown of the American System
7 p.m.
Maxwell Auditorium

Thomas E. Ricks, military correspondent for The Washington Post and best-selling author, will share his insights from covering the Iraq war and the U.S. military. Ricks has been the military correspondent for The Post since 2000 and was part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams on the military for The Wall Street Journal and on terrorism for The Post. His most recent book is Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, which reached number one on The New York Times bestseller list. His other books include Making the Corps and a novel, A Soldier’s Duty. Co-sponsored by the Newhouse School’s Knight Chair in Political Reporting; the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs; the Campbell Public Affairs Institute; the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics and the Media; and the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism. For more information, contact Keli Perrin at (315) 443-2284 or kaperrin@law.syr.edu. More information is also available online at http://insct.syr.edu.

September 21
Open Mic with Bob Costas
2 p.m.
Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse III

Costas will speak to students about his career in sportscasting. One of America’s most recognized and accomplished sports broadcasters, he has covered sports for nearly 30 years and has earned 14 Emmy Awards. He also has been honored as the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association Sportscaster of the Year a record eight times. He is the author of Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball. Event open to SU students only. For more information, contact Lynn Vanderhoek at (315) 443-9236 or lavander@syr.edu.

September 25
Religious Freedoms Under the First Amendment
Time TBA
Hendricks Chapel

Gustav Niebuhr, associate professor of religion and the media in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Newhouse School, and Tom Wolfe, dean of Hendricks Chapel, along with university chaplains, will host discussions about the First Amendment’s religious protections. Co-sponsored by the Luce Project in Religion, Media and International Relations and Hendricks Chapel. For more information, contact Ginny Yerdon at (315) 443-5044 or gyerdon@syr.edu.

September 29 – October 6
"Banned Books" Week

Syracuse University Library observes Banned Books Week. Original banned books from the Library's Special Collections Research Center will be on display in the Peter Graham Room on October 2 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and a banned books display is viewable on the fourth floor of E.S. Bird Library and online at http://library.syr.edu/information/banned_books. For information about all events for the week contact Natasha Cooper at (315) 443-9518 or nacoop01@syr.edu.

October 1
Leaders in Communication Speaker Series
"Newspaper and Broadcast Journalism and Media Diversity: A Conversation with Paula Madison"
7:30 p.m.
Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse III

Professor Dow Smith will lead a conversation with Paula Madison, executive vice president of diversity for NBC Universal. The first senior executive in NBC Universal’s history to hold a position solely devoted to diversity, Madison was previously president and general manager of KNBC, NBC’s owned and operated station in Los Angeles. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious industry awards, including local area Emmy, Golden Mike and Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Best Newscast and Best Investigative Reporting. A former Newhouse master’s student, she was named one of the 75 Most Powerful African Americans in Corporate America by Black Enterprise magazine in 2005. For more information, contact Nancy Sharp at (315) 443-9235 or nwsharp@syr.edu.

October 4-6
Fifth Annual Human Rights Film Festival
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building

The three-day film festival features dynamic documentaries on social justice issues from across the globe, including Palestine, Rwanda, India, and Nicaragua. Traditionally focused on South Asia, the festival has been expanded this year to cover Asia, Africa, South America and beyond. Screenings are free and open to the public. Films and times are available at http://symposium.syr.edu/film.html Co-sponsored by the Syracuse Symposium, the South Asia Center in the Maxwell School’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan Institute for Global Affairs, U. Encounter, and the South Asian Student Association in collaboration with Breakthrough, an international human rights organization. For more information, contact Kandice Salomone at (315) 443-7192 or salomone@syr.edu.

October 16 "Watching the World Change: from 9/11 to Deep Throat" with David Friend
4 p.m. Booksigning/Reception—Miron Room, Newhouse I
7 p.m. A conversation hosted by Joel Kaplan—Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse III

David Friend, director of creative development for Vanity Fair, broke the "Deep Throat"" story in 2005, revealing that Mark Felt was Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s secret Watergate source. Previously the director of photography for Life magazine, Friend is the author of the acclaimed book Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11. He won Emmy and Peabody Awards as an executive producer of the CBS documentary 9/11, which has aired in more than 140 countries. For more information, contact Charlotte Grimes at (315) 443-2366 or cgrimes@syr.edu.

October 19-21
Screening Free Speech

A film festival focusing on First Amendment issues. Co-sponsored by the Newhouse School’s Tully Center for Free Speech and the Syracuse Symposium. For more information, contact Peter Moller at (315) 443-4315 or pkmoller@syr.edu.

November 9 &10
Photojournalist Joe McNally '03
Times and Locations TBA

Award-winning photojournalist Joe McNally will speak about his work and conduct a workshop for photographers. McNally shoots assignments for magazines, ad agencies and graphic design firms around the world, and is described by American Photo magazine as “perhaps the most versatile photojournalist working today.” He is the recipient of the prestigious Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Outstanding Magazine Photography. Co-sponsored by Nikon. For more information, contact Tony Golden at (315) 443-3367 or argolden@syr.edu.

November 14
Freedom Sings
7:30 p.m.
Goldstein Auditorium, Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center

Freedom Sings™ is a critically acclaimed multi-media experience that tells the story of almost three centuries of banned or censored music in America and invites audiences to take a fresh look at the First Amendment. Featuring an all-star cast of musicians and an “only-in-America” story line, this entertaining, irreverent and inspiring program is packed with live music and video. Co-sponsored by the Newhouse School’s Tully Center for Free Speech and the Syracuse Symposium. Tickets are free and available at the Schine Box Office after October 15. For more information, contact Audrey Burian at (315) 443-1930 or aaburian@syr.edu.

November 15
"Freedom's Call"
7 p.m.
Newhouse III, Room 141

The documentary "Freedom's Call" features Dorothy Gilliam, first female African American reporter at The Washington Post, and Ernest Withers, renowned photographer whose photographs have appeared in the black press, The Washington Post, The New York Times and in galleries and museums in this country and abroad.The film is a journey through the Deep South with these two veteran journalists to the cities where they worked together fifty years ago, covering the important stories of the Civil Rights Movement. Two of the stops along the way are visits with Minniejean Brown Trickey one of the Little Rock Nine and James Meredith, first African American to attend The University of Mississippi. The documentary is by Professor Richard Breyer of the Newhouse School. Adding to its poignancy: Withers died Oct. 15, 2007, at the age of 85. For more info, contact Prof. Breyer at (315)443-9249 or rlbreyer@syr.edu.

Spring

January 31
Tully Center Free Speech Award
7:30 p.m.
Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse III

Aboubakr Jamaï, a Moroccan investigative journalist whose reporting led to a jail sentence, near financial ruin and forced exile from his own country, will receive the first annual Tully Center Free Speech Award from the Tully Center for Free Speech. He will speak on "The Risks and Importance of Free Speech" in a conversation with Barbara Fought, associate professor of broadcast journalism and director of the Tully Center.

Jamaï co-founded Le Journal Hebdomadaire, Morocco's leading weekly newspaper, and Assahifa al-Ousbouiya, an Arab language weekly.

For more information, contact Audrey Burian at (315) 443-2302 or aaburian@syr.edu

February 12
Conversation on Race and Television: Alison Taylor
7:30 p.m.
Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse III

Television writer and producer Alison Taylor will visit Newhouse as part of the school's Leaders in Communications speaker series. She will join Richard Dubin, Professor of Practice in Television, Radio and Film, for the seventh annual Conversation on Race and Television.

Taylor's television credits include "Married with Children," "Roc," "Sister/Sister" and "Lizzie McGuire." She is the screenwriter of the hit Disney Channel movie "The Cheetah Girls," the co-writer of "The Cheetah Girls Two: When in Spain" and creator and executive producer of the current Nickelodeon Television series "Just Jordan." She is a graduate of Harvard College.

For more information, contact Nancy Sharp at (315) 443-9235 or nwsharp@syr.edu.

February 19
Celebrating the Right Peaceably to Assemble, and to Petition the Government with our Grievances
6:30 p.m.
Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse III

An event acknowledging the political and social activism of Syracuse University students in the late1960s and early 1970s, which represents some of the most visible examples of the exercise of free speech, particularly the freedom to assemble. The late David Ifshin, former SU student body president and nationally known activist, will be honored. For more information, contact Larry Elin at (315) 443-3415 or lpelin@syr.edu.

March 18
TV, Pop Culture and the First Amendment
12:30 p.m.
Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture, Newhouse III

Professor Robert Thompson screens examples of television that celebrate the freedoms granted in the First Amendment. Clips will showcase the extent to which American television has been able to demonstrate freedom of expression. For more information, contact MyLinda Smith at (315) 443-9252 or msmith@syr.edu .

March 25
The Right to Petition
3:30 p.m.
A1, Newhouse I
Grassroots advocate and professional social worker Mary Fetchet will discuss the importance of petitioning the government for the redress of grievances. Fetchet is the founding director and driving force behind "Voices of September 11th," a non-profit organization that advocates and provides services for people affected by the events of September 11, 2001. Fetchet co-founded the organization following the death of her 24-year-old son, Brad, in the attacks on the World Trade Center. She will discuss how lobbying and the right to petition are used by ordinary Americans and grassroots organizations. The event is coordinated by Robert M. McClure, the Chapple Family Professor of Citizenship and Democracy in the Maxwell School. For more information, contact Mary Susan McGough at (315) 443-3061 or msmcgoug@maxwell.syr.edu.

April 4
Freedom of Expression with Fashion
7 p.m.
Lobby, Newhouse I

Fashion show featuring designs created by undergraduates in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ fashion design program and produced by students in Newhouse's Fashion and Beauty Communications Milestone. The show will illustrate the power of fashion to express potent political and social messages. For more information, contact Carla Lloyd at (315) 443-2305 or cvlloyd@syr.edu.

April 9
Challenges to a Free Press
4 p.m.
Room 464, Newhouse II
Freelance journalist Frank Smyth will speak on his experiences with foreign affairs journalism. Smyth is co-author of Dialogue and Armed Conflict: Negotiating the Civil War in El Salvador and El Salvador: Is Peace Possible?. Smyth is a member of the Committee to Protect Journalists, has worked for CBS News Radio, and has published work in The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post and The New York Times. For more information, contact Steven Lux at (315) 443-3759 or sjlux@maxwell.syr.edu.

April 14
The Importance of Investigative Journalism
5:15 p.m.
Room 251, Newhouse III
Investigative reporter Doug Frantz will speak on the forces buffeting newspapers in today's society. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and graduate of DePauw and Columbia Universities, Frantz has worked for The Albuquerque Tribune, The Chicago Tribune and The New York Times, and served as managing editor of The Los Angeles Times from 2005 to 2007. He has authored or co-authored nine books, most recently one on Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan. For more information, contact Michael Haederle at (315) 443-7398 or mhaederl@syr.edu.

April 16
The First Amendment in Cyberspace
4 p.m.
Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse III
Newhouse faculty members and experts on First Amendment law Jon Glass, Joel Kaplan and Mark Obbie will examine how the freedoms of the First Amendment come together and collide online. Topics will include comparisons of freedoms granted to Internet communications and those afforded to other forms of media, and how issues of free speech, expression and dissent are viewed in the online community. Hosted by Professor Roy Gutterman. For more information, contact Gutterman at (315) 443-3523 or rsgutter@syr.edu.

April 18
"The Ten—Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America"
3 p.m.
Room 432, Newhouse III
David Hajdu — nationally known magazine writer, author and former Newhouse professor now at Columbia University - will share insights on the censorship controversy surrounding comic books. As Hajdu meticulously documents in his book The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America, comic books were the first illustrations of modern American pop culture. Entertainment Weekly described his book as "a staggeringly well-reported account of the men and women who created the comic, and the backlash of the 1950s that nearly destroyed it." Book-signing to follow.

For more information, contact Carla Lloyd at (315)443-2305 or cvlloyd@syr.edu.