Harvard Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr., will discuss the First Amendment right to peaceful assembly at 5:30 p.m., Monday, April 23 when he delivers Gonzaga University School of Law’s William O. Douglas Lecture. The free event is open to the public and will be held in the Barbieri Courtroom.

Gonzaga University – in collaboration with other Inland Northwest institutions of higher learning – hosts the 10th annual Spokane Intercollegiate Research Conference Saturday, April 21. The event culminates 2012 National Undergraduate Research Week (April 6-20) and provides opportunities for students at Gonzaga, Whitworth University, Washington State University-Spokane, Eastern Washington University and the Community Colleges of Spokane to present original research across all disciplines.

The breakthrough Justice for Fraud Victims Project launched by Gonzaga University’s Master of Accountancy Program in 2010 is rapidly becoming a model for other communities nationwide to battle white-collar crime.

Gonzaga University thanked its benefactors and specially honored longtime benefactors Tom and Camilla Tilford with its Ignatian Spirit Award at the fifth annual Ignatian Gala at the McCarthey Athletic Center Thursday, April 12.

Each day began with humiliation, followed by starvation, and ended with paranoia and the fear that death was lurking around the corner. This is how Ingrid Betancourt described her life as a political hostage for more than six years in the Colombian jungle. Ironically, Betancourt’s descent into a living nightmare began in 2002 when she ran for president of Colombia to improve social justice there.