Conservative author and speaker David Horowitz will discuss academic freedom on college campuses at 7 p.m. tonight in St. Mary’s hall.
Horowitz has written several books, including Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, and is currently editor of Frontpage, an online magazine. Horowitz has fought against affirmative action, which he sees as a different form of racism.
“We don’t support affirmative action,” Maya Norona (CAS ‘05), Director of Communications for the Georgetown College Republicans, said. “We believe that we are not numbers or statistics.”
Horowitz caused controversy in 2001 when he took out full-page advertisements in campus newspapers throughout the U.S. attacking the idea of reparations for slavery and suggesting that black Americans were indebted to whites for their emancipation.
Supporters of affirmative action disagree with Horowitz.
“He doesn’t understand all the good that comes from affirmative action. He would understand its vital importance if he stepped into a Georgetown classroom,” Mary Gibson (CAS ‘05), former President of the Georgetown College Democrats said.
