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Program for January 21, 2008

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Monday, January 21st 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. DREAM Committee Mock oral argument, featuring teams of students and professors re-arguing the recent Supreme Court desegregation case; Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1. Guest members of the 7th Circuit Court District Judges will serve on a panel as Supreme Court Justices. Thorne Auditorium, Arthur Rubloff Building - 375 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago
Monday, January 21st Noon - 1:30 p.m. DREAM Committee Theodore M. Shaw, director-counsel and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the nation's premier civil rights law firm, will be the keynote speaker at Northwestern University's 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration. The program will include a musical commemoration by the guest gospel music group 'G3' and remarks from the deans of both the University's Feinberg School of Medicine and the School of Law. Thorne Auditorium, Arthur Rubloff Building - 375 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago
Monday, January 21st 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Co-sponsored by the School of Law and the School of Medicine Medical panel discussing the topic of "Racialized Medicine". The purpose of the panel is to explore whether race can be quantified for valuable use in science and medicine. Hughes Auditorium of the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center - 303 East Superior Street, Chicago
Monday, January 21st 4:00 p.m. - 5 p.m. DREAM Committee 4pm Public Reception in the atrium outside of Hughes Auditorium Hughes Auditorium of the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center - 303 East Superior Street, Chicago