<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/westmont-news/talk-examines-state-public-discourse.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>10/26/2017</pubDate><title>Talk Examines State of Public Discourse</title><excerpt>Four Westmont professors will explore the freedoms and limits of the First Amendment in a lecture Wednesday, Nov. 1, at 7 p.m.in Hieronymus Lounge at Westmont’s Kerrwood Hall. The panel discussion, “‘You Offend Me, So Shut Up:’ Rethinking Free Speech in a Polarized Age,” features Jesse Covington, associate professor of political science, Chandra Mallampalli, Fletcher Jones Foundation professor in social science (history), Sandra Richter, Robert H. Gundry professor in biblical studies, and Jeff Schloss, director of the Center of Faith, Ethics and Life Sciences and T.B. Walker professor in the natural and behavioral sciences. The Westmont Forum, a series of discussions on important issues, is free and open to the public.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
            <img src="/_migrated-binaries/sites/default/files/blogs-legacy/2017/10/Covington-Jesse_15-505x758.jpg" alt="Dr. Jesse Covington"/>
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