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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>Date: Tue, 13 Feb
2007 14:32:47 -0800<br>
From: <navarro@ucr.edu><br>
Subject: anti-war colloquium planning meeting<br>
To: alfredo.mirande@ucr.edu, adalberto.aguirre@ucr.edu,<br>
thomas.patterson@ucr.edu,
chuck.whitney@ucr.edu, juan.herrera@ucr.edu,<br>
shaun.bowler@ucr.edu,
gloria.gonzales@ucr.edu, robert.patch@ucr.edu,<br>
june.oconnor@ucr.edu,
katherine.kinney@ucr.edu, georgia.warnke@ucr.edu,<br>
david.herzberger@ucr.edu,
alicia.arrizon@ucr.edu<br>
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February 13, 2007<br><br>
From: Professor Armando Navarro,<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Department
of Ethnic Studies<br><br>
To: Department Chairs, Faculty, Student Program Directors, <br>
Graduate/undergraduate students, and staff <br><br>
Subject: Planning Meeting for UCR Colloquium on Peace in <br>
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This is a cordial invitation to attend a planning meeting <br>
for a “Peace Colloquium” on the escalating Iraq War. I am <br>
proposing that it be held at UCR sometime before the end of <br>
the current quarter. As a professor in the Department of <br>
Ethnic Studies; a human rights activist; and as a former <br>
officer in the United States Army, I am extremely concerned <br>
about the escalating Iraq War Crisis that increasingly seems <br>
to be expanding into a wider regional conflagration that <br>
could involve Iran and the rest of Middle East. I have <br>
spoken about the matter to various faculty members, graduate <br>
undergraduate students, and community people and all concur <br>
that the timing is propitious for UCR, as an intellectual <br>
community, to hold such a colloquium where the Iraq War <br>
issue and its divergent points of view can be debated. <br><br>
I urge you to attend this very important meeting. It will <br>
be held this coming Friday, February 15 at 1:30 pm at <br>
Humanities 1500 at UCR. Please inform and invite those you <br>
think are interested in participating in such an event to be <br>
with us. More specifically, for department chairs please <br>
inform and invite your faculty, graduate and undergraduate <br>
students. For Student Program Directors, I urge you to <br>
notify the various student organizations. And for all <br>
others, please take the initiative and invite others as well.<br><br>
In closing, these are difficult and challenging times, our <br>
UCR intellectual community, has a responsibility to provide <br>
the intellectual setting and space to debate the issues that <br>
impact society. If you have any questions pertinent to the <br>
meeting, I can be reached at either 827-1826 or my cell <br>
number (951) 333-6819. My e-mail address is: <br>
armando.navarro@ucr.edu.
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<font face="Palatino Linotype" size=3><b><i>D. Charles Whitney</i></b>,
</font><font face="Palatino Linotype" size=2>Professor and Chair,
Creative Writing; Professor of Sociology<br>
Department of Creative Writing, 1607 HMNSS, <br>
University of California , 900 University Ave.<br>
Riverside, CA 92521-0118 951.827.6076 / Fax
951.827.3619</font><font size=3> <br>
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