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October 2, 2000
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POLITICAL COMMENTATOR ELIZABETH DREW TO SPEAK AT OBERLIN COLLEGE OCTOBER 11

Convocation 2000-2001: "The Corruption of American Politics"

8 p.m. Wed., Oct. 11, Finney Chapel, West Lorain & North Professor Streets

Free public event
For more information
please call 440/775-8474.

Media Contact:
Betty.Gabrieli@oberlin.edu

http://www.oberlin.edu.

Sponsored by the Finney Lecture and Student Assemblies committees with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foun-dation and the Office of the President of Oberlin College.

OBERLIN, OH--Author and journalist Elizabeth Drew, a noted and highly acclaimed observer of the Washington scene, will discuss "The Corruption of American Politics" October 11 at Oberlin College.

The Washington correspondent for the New Yorker magazine for 19 years, Drew is a prolific author and a television commentator. Her Oberlin talk is the third in a series of the three Convocation lectures preceding the November elections that have as their focus the various aspects of the U.S. political process.

In her 11^th and most recent book, The Corruption of American Politics: What Went Wrong and Why, she reports on and analyzes the role of money in our politics and what has happened to our political system over the course of the past 25 years. Publisher’s Weekly said the book is "one of the most skillfully written, as well as insightful, looks inside the Beltway to appear in a very long time."

Drew’s articles and op-ed pieces have appeared in the Washington Post and other newspapers, and she appears regularly as a television commentator on such programs as Meet the Press, The News with Brian Williams, and CNN's Inside Politics.

The Convocation series will continue spring semester with a concert on February 6 celebrating the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by the Moses Hogan Singers. The 2000-2001 speakers program will conclude with presentations by highly acclaimed composer-conductor John Adams, March 19 and outstanding scientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, April 13.

Media Contact: Betty Gabrielli 10/02/00 #21 bg

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