Stetson University Values Council  2008-2009 

The Stetson University Values Council theme for the 2008-2009 academic year is “Tradition and Innovation.” Theme events are sponsored by the seven councils of the Values Council and will include guest lectures, book discussions and other venues. Guest speakers include Kathryn Bogle, author of Hooking Up; Stetson Law alumnus J. Brent Walker, a First Amendment legal expert; and Dr. Michael Kinnamon, the new General Secretary of the National Council of Churches.

Professors and academic programs are urged to partner with the Values Council to make theme events attractive and educational for students; and to encourage students to attend, and even lead, book discussions of Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit’s Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies; Charles Maier’s Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors; and David Korten’s The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.

"The Values Council chairs believe this theme is particularly appropriate in a time of reflections on the past and transitions into the future in the university’s history," said Values Council Chair Donald Musser, senior professor of Religious Studies. The seven values chairs are Professors Mary Pollock (Gender Equity), Dixon Sutherland (Ethical Decision-Making), Greg Sapp (Community Service) and Anne Hallum (Environmental Responsibility); Deans Grady Ballenger (Health and Wellness) and Leonard Nance (Diversity); and Chaplain Michael Fronk (Spiritual Life). 

 Values Council Lectures for the 2008-2009 Year

Monday, Sept. 8, 2008: J. Brent Walker, J.D.
Stetson College of Law alumnus, First Amendment legal expert and executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee
Lecture title: "Religion and Politics: When Church and State Collide in the Nation's Capital"
7 p.m., Stetson Room, Carlton Union Building, 131 E. Minnesota Ave.
Free and open to the public

Monday, Sept. 29, 2008: Kathleen Bogle
Author of Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus; Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at LaSalle University in Philadelphia
Sponsored by the Values Council, the Gender Equity Council and the Artists and Lecturers Series
7 p.m., Stetson Room, Carlton Union Building, 131 E. Minnesota Ave.
Free and open to the public

Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009: Michael Kinnamon
General Secretary of the National Council of Churches USA
7 p.m., Elizabeth Hall Chapel, 421 N. Woodland Blvd.

Values Council Book Feasts for the 2008-2009 Year

Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008
Occidentalism, by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit
4:30-6 p.m., Stetson Room, Carlton Union Building, 131 E. Minnesota Ave.

Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008
Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus,by Kathleen A. Bogle
4-5:30 p.m., Stetson Room, Carlton Union Building, 131 E. Minnesota Ave.
Co-sponsored by the Gender Equity Council.

Book feasts are open to Stetson students, faculty and staff only. Participants for each feast must register with Lisa Guenther by email or at Ext. 8920.