Penn Professor To Speak At Muhlenberg
Alan Charles Kors, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a lecture on "The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses."Wednesday, February 4, 2004 00:42 PM
Alan Charles Kors, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a lecture on "The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses," Thursday, February 12, 7:30 p.m., Miller Forum, Moyer Hall, Muhlenberg College. Kors' appearance is sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar program and is free and open to the public.
Kors teaches European intellectual history and served a editor-in-chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Enlightenment (four volumes). His other publications include "Holbach's Coterie," "Atheism in France, 1650-1729," "The Shadow University," and "Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700." He has received awards for distinguished college teaching and for the defense of academic freedom.
Kors contends that American college students are "victims of a generational swindle of epic proportion," claiming that "students of the sixties, now in power, have moved from free speech movements to speech codes, from racial integration to racial separatism, from treating students as young adults to treating students as children, and from struggles against mandatory chapel to struggles for mandatory sensitivity training on issues of diversity." His talk at Muhlenberg will address these issues.
