Reminder – Commentator Linda Chavez to Deliver Hanify-Howland Lecture at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity in Washington, D.C., will deliver the annual Hanify-Howland Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 5 at 8 p.m. in the Hogan Ballroom at Holy Cross. The lecture, titled "Thinking About Race: The Shifting Civil Rights Agenda," is free and open to the public.

Described by The Washington Post as one of "a new generation of intellectuals [seeking] to question the orthodoxies of the civil rights establishment," Chavez, a Hispanic conservative, is well-known for her opposition to affirmative action, bilingual education, and other issues affecting minorities.

Chavez is the author of Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation and An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal. She also writes a weekly syndicated column that appears in newspapers all over the country.

The annual Hanify-Howland lecture honors the late Edward F. Hanify, a 1904 graduate of Holy Cross and a Massachusetts Superior Court justice for 15 years, who died in 1954. The series was started by Hanify's friend, the late Weston Howland of Milton, Mass., a board chairman of Warwick Mills, Inc., who died in 1976.