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BRIEF: Professor to present Constitution Day lecture tonight at Gonzaga

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September 17, 2012

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Blaine Garvin, professor of political science at Gonzaga University, will present a lecture at 7 p.m. in celebration of both Constitution Day and Gonzaga’s 125th Anniversary Celebration. The lecture is free and open to the public and will be held in the Cataldo Hall Globe Room, according to a press release.

The lecture is titled, “A Partnership to Be Looked upon with Other Reverence . . . or What the Broken Jaw of a Green Plastic Alligator Can Teach Us about Gonzaga University and about Our Country.”

The lecture by Garvin – who also serves as interim dean of Gonzaga’s College of Arts and Sciences – will focus on the history of the Constitution in the context of both a U.S. presidential election year and Gonzaga’s 125th Anniversary.

Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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