Former NJC Editor Named AIA Director As this year's fall semester gets underway for incoming college students at our nation's universities, Accuracy In Academia has named a new executive director to replace outgoing AIA director Dan Flynn, author of Why the Left Hates America. Newly appointed AIA director Malcolm A. Kline is the former editor of the National Journalism Center. Kline's two-decade tenure of experience with the NJC program was devoted to honing the writing skills of NJC interns—primarily college graduates in pursuit of careers in journalism. "Because most students and their parents do not know what they are facing, we want to expose what is going on in classrooms and on campuses in the United States," Kline recently said. "From the stories they told me, I got an alarming picture of what undergraduates face on American campuses today," Kline said. Kline says that AIA's newspaper, The Campus Report, is going to do more in-depth coverage of course offerings in colleges and universities as well as controversies surrounding conservative student groups which attempt to bring speakers that reflect their views on campus. "From college classes on interpretations of Shakespeare that do not actually involve reading the Bard to the attempts of college administrators and faculty members to disrupt talks by speakers who do not share their views, today's students find the pursuit of knowledge to be a frustrating one," Kline said. Kline has written for Newsmax.com, the National Catholic Register, the Catholic News Service, and Insight magazine. For more information on AIA, visit their website: www.academia.org. Lax Immigration Enforcement Undermines National Security A new report released last week by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), State of Insecurity: How State and Local Immigration Policies are Undermining Homeland Security, shows that despite the federal government's increased reforms that tie immigration enforcement to national security, states continue to adopt policies that fly in the face of federal immigration law:
"While the federal government has not yet slammed shut the doors to illegal immigration, it is the states and local governments that are rolling out the welcome mat for illegal aliens once they are here," says FAIR executive director Dan Stein. Copies of the report are available from the FAIR website: www.fairus.org. Conservatives Toast Dr. Walter Williams Conservatives will recognize the accomplishments and career achievements of free-market economist Dr. Walter E. Williams, whose columns appear in HUMAN EVENTS, with a toast on Sept. 23, 2003, at the Ritz Carlton Pentagon City, Va. The evening's schedule of events will include a cocktail reception (6:00 p.m.) followed by dinner and toast (7:00 p.m.). The Mercatus Center and The Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University, are the chief sponsors of the Williams dinner and toast. Tables are available for individual and corporate sponsors. For more information, contact R. Scott Wallis at 703-993-4902 or [email protected]. CFIF Appoints New Director The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) has appointed Jeffrey L. Mazzella as its new Executive Director. For the past two and a half years, Mazzella has headed up CFIF's legislative and public affairs department where he was responsible for the development and implementation of the organization's legislative and regulatory agenda. Mazzella has been CFIF's chief representative before Congress, the Executive Branch and state and local governments across the country on issues involving taxation, judicial confirmations, energy, technology and the 1st Amendment, among others. "CFIF has come a long way since its founding in 1998," said Mazzella. "I look forward to building on its reputation as an organization that gets the job done. The Constitution and principles of our Founding Fathers all too often get lost in the public policy debate. My job at CFIF is to ensure that doesn't happen." Mazzella will be taking over for Eric Schippers who has led CFIF as Executive Director since its founding. The Center for Individual Freedom is a 501 (c)(4) non-partisan constitutional advocacy group that fights to protect and defend individual freedoms and rights in the legal, legislative and educational arenas. For more information, visit the CFIF website on: www.cfif.org. Guns Rights Policy Conference Hosts Activists in Houston, Tex. Gun rights activists from around the country will converge on Houston, Tex. for the 18th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) on Sept. 26-28, 2003. The GRPC will meet at the George Bush International Airport Marriott Hotel to compare notes on the gun rights movement in their local communities, and discuss the future of the gun rights movement to secure our freedoms. Alan Gottlieb, Founder and Executive Vice President of the Second Amendment Foundation urged activists to "be there to celebrate the major victories we've had in extending the right to carry. The people of Colorado, New Mexico, Michigan, and Minnesota, are safer now that their fundamental right to self defense is affirmed in their legal system. "We've got to work together to plan our future victories in the battle to prevent the gun grabbers from attacking our rights," said Gottlieb. The GRPC allows grassroots activists of the gun rights movement to meet with nationally famous leaders, such as Alan Gottlieb, Wayne LaPierre, and former Congressman Bob Barr. Educational books and monographs are given to attendees, and more are available for purchase. Readers interested in attending this year's GRPC, visit the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) website: www.saf.org or call SAF at 425-454-7012.
