March 1 - 15, 1999
The beach or the barrio? ASB students choose helping others     by Amy Pate

Professor of Psychology Randolph Blake clears brush from an overgrown cemetery on Daufuskie Island, S.C., during a 1998 Alternative Spring Break trip. (see story)
Photo by Billy Kingsley
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Disclosure, regulation on environmental summit agenda   by Lew Harris
     Carol M. Browner, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is one of three keynote speakers who will appear March 3 at a national environmental summit hosted by the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies (VCEMS).
     The summit, to be attended by 40 to 50 invited authorities from government, business and environmental organizations, will deal with issues including public disclosure of corporate environmental behavior. The event is titled “Environmental Information Disclosure and Stakeholder Involvement: Searching for Common Ground.” (see story)
Media focused world on civil rights abuses, panelists say   by Sara Wright
     As Mamie Till-Mobley told a Vanderbilt audience about her son Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching, photographs of the bright boy glowed on a screen behind her. When Till-Mobley finished relaying the details of the brutal murder — a crime that is now thought of as the catalyst for the modern civil rights movement — a photo of Till’s mutilated body appeared for a few seconds.
     The image brought a collective gasp from the audience at the First Amendment Center’s Feb. 22 panel discussion “Civil Rights: The Media and the Movement, A Retrospective.” The event, featuring four panelists intimately connected (see story)
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