BSU draws high-profile speakers

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An unusually high-profile array of speakers is headed for Boise State University this winter.

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, former Vice President Al Gore, former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix, and authors Tracy Kidder and Garrison Keillor will speak on campus from January to March 2007.

First up is Baptist minister and civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, who was invited to BSU as part of the school’s Dr. Martin Luther King human rights celebration. Jackson will speak Jan. 17 at the Taco Bell Arena.

"We chose him because we wanted to hear a different perspective," said Rodney Curley, a junior at BSU who is chairman of the human rights event. "Traditionally, a lot of the speakers that come here are very conservative and have a message that identifies with the demographic outside of Boise.

"We just wanted to get a new light to some issues."

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1. Wow! Al Gore.. I'm there!

:patriot:

That's a great lineup for BSU!

[jessicazi]

2. Idaho State University

got Jesse Jackson in 2004, Ralph Nader in 2003, and Joseph Wilson last year, in October or November of 2005, I believe. We also had Barbara Eihrenreich in the Spring and filled the ballroom up with people, same as when Nader was here (had run out of seats and had people standing up in back). Jesse Jackson filled up the Reed Gym where our basketball teams play. Yeah, I am bragging!