{"id":354469,"date":"2010-02-23T16:19:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T21:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/blagojevich-to-speak-at-northwestern-university"},"modified":"2010-02-23T16:19:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T21:19:22","slug":"blagojevich-to-speak-at-northwestern-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/354469","title":{"rendered":"Blagojevich to speak at Northwestern University"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"EVANSTON, Ill.<\/strong> — Students at Northwestern University will get a chance to ask Rod Blagojevich questions next week, when the disgraced former governor speaks to faculty and students at an event titled “Ethics in Politics: An evening with Former Governor Rod Blagojevich.”<\/p>\n

The event, sponsored by Northwestern’s College Democrats, will be held at 7 p.m. March 2 at Cahn Auditorium in Evanston, according to the student newspaper, The Daily Northwestern.<\/p>\n

“A conversation about ethics and politics is important to have,” Dan Rockoff, vice president of programming for College Democrats told the newspaper. <\/span><\/p>\n

“There isn’t a better person out there to discuss this than former Governor Rod Blagojevich.”<\/p>\n

Rockoff said corruption was a major issue during the Illinois primary election earlier this month, especially because four of the last eight Illinois governor have been indicted, including Blagojevich.<\/p>\n

Blagojevich is scheduled to go on trial this summer on federal corruption charges. He is charged with substantive racketeering, attempted extortion of a U.S. Congressman, bribery of Children’s Memorial Hospital and a racetrack executive, and other charges, mostly related to his alleged attempt to sell President Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat.<\/p>\n

Blagojevich will be given 15 minutes to plead his case to a panel of Northwestern faculty members, including a law professor, a political science professor and a journalism professor.<\/p>\n

After he speaks to the faculty panel, students will have a chance to ask Blagojevich questions.<\/p>\n

“Our belief is that students at Northwestern are interested in debating this issue,” Rockoff said. “They will be interested to see this kind of dialogue.”<\/p>\n

An invitation to the event has been posted on Facebook and as of Tuesday afternoon, 475 people had responded they were planning to attend.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the event were set to go on sale at the school later this week and 1,000 free tickets were to be made available to the Northwestern community.<\/p>\n

Read the original article from WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n

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