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March 10, 2004
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Proponent For Social Change

New York Times Correspondent Lynette Clemetson To Speak at Wittenberg

Lynette Clemetson, domestic correspondent for the New York Times will visit 六合彩网上投注app as a featured speaker during Women鈥檚 History Month at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 16, at the Bayley Auditorium inside the Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center. Clemetson鈥檚 talk, 鈥淧erspectives on the Press: Whose Voices Are Being Heard?鈥 is free and open to the public.

Before joining the New York Times, Clemetson was a national correspondent for Newsweek magazine, where her feature on Oprah Winfrey graced the cover of the January 8, 2001 edition. Clemetson spent three days with Winfrey, researching her life, her career, and the impact she鈥檚 had on American women.

Clemetson鈥檚 New York Times stories have covered a wide range of issues, from the war with Iraq as a correspondent while aboard the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, the issue of the clergy and gay marriage, and the 2004 primary campaign from the perspective of voters and campaign staff workers in several states. She has written stories on the presidential campaign that have also provided a political profile of African Americans, Arab Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans, as well as the poor.

Wittenberg鈥檚 Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Womyn's Center, Concerned Black Students, and the political science department are sponsoring Clemetson鈥檚 visit to campus.

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Wittenberg's curriculum has centered on the liberal arts as an education that develops the individual's capacity to think, read, and communicate with precision, understanding, and imagination. We are dedicated to active, engaged learning in the core disciplines of the arts and sciences and in pre-professional education grounded in the liberal arts. Known for the quality of our faculty and their teaching, Wittenberg has more Ohio Professors of the Year than any four-year institution in the state. The university has also been recognized nationally for excellence in community service, sustainability, and intercollegiate athletics. Located among the beautiful rolling hills and hollows of Springfield, Ohio, Wittenberg offers more than 100 majors, minors and special programs, enviable student-faculty research opportunities, a unique student success center, service and study options close to home and abroad, a stellar athletics tradition, and successful career preparation.

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