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Dateline: 9/5/2006

GONZAGA UNIVERSITY NEWS RELEASE
Dale Goodwin, Director
Peter Tormey, Associate Director

Gonzaga Socratic Club Lecture Sept. 8 Canceled

THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS OF THE SPEAKER REV. MICHAEL MAHER, S.J.

Gonzaga University history Associate Professor Rev. Michael J. Maher, S.J., was to discuss Ignatius of Loyola's view of what a Jesuit university is and should be at the first meeting of the Gonzaga Socratic Club this academic year. However, Rev. Maher has taken ill and the lecture has been canceled.

The Gonzaga Socratic Club takes its inspiration from the famous Oxford Socratic Club, which was founded at Oxford University in 1941 and presided over by C. S. Lewis from its founding until his move to Cambridge University in 1954.

David Calhoun, GU associate professor of philosophy, will be away from campus this semester so the Socratic Club will be coordinated by Doug Kries, associate professor of philosophy. Kries can be reached via e-mail at kries@gem.gonzaga.edu or at (509) 323-6720.

Other meetings of the Socratic Club this fall are scheduled as follows:

* Friday, Oct. 20 -- Doug Kries, associate professor of philosophy at Gonzaga will discuss: “Tocqueville and Benedict XVI on Catholicism and Politics.”
* Friday, Nov. 10 -- TBA
* Friday, Dec 1 -- Forrest Baird, a philosophy professor at Whitworth College, will discuss C.S. Lewis. Details TBA.

Check the Gonzaga Socratic Club Web site for updated information at http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/calhoun/socratic/