Quotes from Speakers Hosted Recently by the College

“Our prison system is a planet apart from the rest of society. We should hold states accountable for recidivism rates...if you're a young gang member about to commit a crime, you're not going to stop and think, 'oh my god, congress just passed the gang busters law. I could be the subject of a mandatory sentence. I think I'll join the boy scouts instead.'"

Alan Elsner
Author, The Gates of Injustice, national correspondent, Reuters News Service
Keynote speaker, NHIOP Consortium on Justice and Society, April 29

“…The life and writings of Saint Anselm constitute an important moment in this alternative, pre-modern conception of the link between language and the good, between thought and passion, and between intellectual inquiry and spiritual exercises—practices designed to move the individual to self-knowledge and to a greater participation in the good .”

Thomas Hibbs
Dean of the Honors College—Baylor University
The Saint Anselm Lecture, Institute for Saint Anselm Studies, April 21