Yale professor to speak on integrity, civility, morals

"Civility is disintegrating," argues Yale University Professor and best-selling author Stephen Carter, who will speak at the free community forum at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, Sunday, April 18, at 7 p.m. His topic will be "Civility and Morals."

The William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale, Dr. Carter has won acclaim for important books on public issues such as integrity, law, revolution and religion.

Those books include his latest, "Civility: Manners, Morals and Etiquette of Democracy." In it, Professor Carter examines, with erudition and wit, the ways in which an ethic of neighbor-love would change everything from political campaigns to the information superhighway, from how we behave in the work place to the way we drive our cars.

He writes that people have forgotten the obligations we owe each other and are consumed with self-indulgence.

Whether speaking or writing, Carter presents a thoughtful stance on many of the complex issues confronting America today. He combines insights from philosophy, theology, history and law along with examples drawn from current events and personal experience.

As a teacher of the law, he discusses the difficulties involved in trying to legislate integrity as well as teach it.

Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church is presenting a series of community forums, free to the public.

The forums explore issues of community forums, free to the public. The forums explore issues of interest for the vitality of the community.

Speakers ask for questions from the audience. The forums are in the church sanctuary at 625 Montgomery Avenue, Bryn Mawr, Penn. Reservations are not necessary.

The next forum speaker after Carter is Mary Pipher, Ph.D., therapist, speaker and best-selling author. (Nov. 1)

Parking for the forums is available in three church lots and across the street behind Harcum College. For more information, call (610) 525-2821.

4/2, Yugoslavia

Three American soldiers were captured just outside the Yugoslavian-Macedonian border. They appeared on Serbian television with cuts and bruises. Clinton publicly warned Milosevic that the United States will hold him responsible for the safety of the American infantrymen. This came on the ninth day of the NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia.

4/3, Belgrade

American and British cruise missiles struck major government buildings in the Yugoslavian capital. This strike comes on the 11th day of the NATO air war. Serbian television pictured large fires consuming a complex of buildings in Belgrade that house the Defense and Interior Ministries as well as the Serbian Republic police headquarters.

-Erica McGee

Children Killing Children: Who's to Blame?

On Friday,April9, 1999, therewillbe a discussionentitled "ChildrenKillingChildren:Who'sto Blame?"Thiswill be held in the Grace Hall Atriumfrom 6 p.m. until 9 p.m.

Attendingwillbe Dave Tomlinsonfrom Familiesof MurderedVictims,Doug Keith, media researcher,.a representativefrom MayorEd Randell'sofficeand a policeoffi.. cer fromthe RadnorPoliceDepartment. There will also be a dance on Saturday, April 10, 1999, to benefitFamiliesof MurderedVictims.The costis $3 and it will be heldfrom9 p.m. to 1 a.m.