Hate crime discussed

Hate crime, like the heinous killing of gay student Matthew Shepard in Colorado or the dragging death of James Byrd in Texas, has gotten a lot of attention lately.

The Student Activities Council is hosting a free panel on the issue at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, in the Campus Activities Center Theater.

To date, panelists include Scott Curry, a Wichita lawyer; Dorothy Miller, associate professor of women’s studies at WSU and contributor to the Liberty Press; a representative from the Kansas attorney general’s office; and a member of the ACLU.

In conjunction with the panel discussion, a documentary about a hate crime in Nebraska a couple of years ago, “The Brandon Teena Story,” will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 22, in the CAC Theater. The showing will be free for WSU students, $2 for faculty and staff, and $3 for the general public.