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Staff report 6:27 p.m. ET April 3, 2017

Nadine Strossen, Alan C. Kors(Photo: provided)

The former president of the American Civil Liberties Union and a co-founder of a group advocating free speech will be featured speakers at Rochester Institute of Technology's Center for Statesmanship, Law and Liberty's annual symposium Tuesday and Wednesday.

The symposium, "The University as a Marketplace of Ideas? The Debate over Free Speech and Fundamental Fairness on Campus," is free and open to the public.

Nadine Strossen will give a talk, "Title IX: Hostile Environment Policies that are Hostile to Free Speech and Due Process," at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in Liberal Arts Hall, Room A205, on the RIT campus.

Strossen, who is a professor of law at New York Law School, was president of the ACLU from 1991 through 2008.

Alan C. Kors will give a talk, "No Freedom of Speech, No Higher Education," onWednesday at 7 p.m., in the Ingle Auditoriumof the RIT Student Alumni Union.

Kors,a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, is co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). He isthe 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal.

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