Williams and the Focus Year Lecture Series

For several months the BUCC has been highlighting the staggering bias of the Office of Academic Affairs' and International Relations Department's Focus Year Lecture Series entitled "Global Capitalism, Global Empire."

The lecture series, manditory for many IR students, has been a complete farce thus far. Intended to encourage students to "think critically" the series has been a series of tin foil hat wearing loons. There have been speeches predicting capitalism's impending collapse, the Bush administration using the war in Afghanistan to promote an economic agenda that redistributes wealth from the working class to the leisure class, and a speech by the very objective editor of the Socialist Register.

Unfortunately the fourth (and final) speech in the series by Cynthia Enloe has been cancelled. Cynthia, a Women's Studies professor at Clark University, was going to enlighten the campus about the role of women in the "new empire."

I for one can't wait to see if the International Relations Department will take the BUCC up on it's offer to make an upcoming speech by Dr. Walter Williams (hosted by the BUCC) on Free Markets and Free Trade, and official replacement for the Enloe talk.