THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, February 15, 1996 TAG: 9602150407
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY ESTHER DISKIN, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH LENGTH: Short : 43 lines
William J. Bennett, an author and one of the conservative movement's leading lights, will speak Friday at Regent University about the role of institutions in promoting morality.
Bennett, who served as U.S. secretary of education in the Reagan administration and has written several books on morality, including the recent best seller ``The Book of Virtues,'' will give a keynote address, ``Restoring Civic Virtue.''
His speech will set the tone for a panel debate among some of the nation's well-known liberal and conservative writers.
The panel will include Nat Hentoff, a writer for The Village Voice and The New Yorker; Margaret Carlson, columnist for Time magazine; Tony Snow, syndicated columnist and stand-in host for Rush Limbaugh; James Wall, president of the Christian Century Foundation; and Charles E. Rice, professor at University of Notre Dame Law School.
The conference, sponsored by Regent University and religious broadcaster Pat Robertson's legal action group, the American Center for Law and Justice, is part of a continuing effort to broaden debate at the evangelical school.
``To bring together people of diametrically opposed ideas is in keeping with the university environment,'' said Paul Chaim Schenk, executive vice president of the American Center for Law and Justice.
``Regent hasn't always emphasized that. This is part of the desire to bring in competing ideas.''
Tickets to the luncheon and panel debate, which will be held at 11:30 a.m. at the Founders Inn, are $39. Lawyers can earn six continuing education credits for attending the conference and a series of classes Friday and Saturday, at a cost of $149. ILLUSTRATION: Graphic
TO REGISTER
To register or receive more information, call 579-2880.
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