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March 11, 2002 NATIONAL PRIVACY EXPERT TO SPEAK AT BOISE STATE LECTURE SERIES 
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Charlotte A. Twight, a national expert on privacy issues and the economics of politics, will be the featured speaker at the Len B. and Grace Jordan Endowment for Economic Studies Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, in the Boise State University Student Union Jordan Ballroom. The Len B. and Grace Jordan Endowment for Economic Studies was established to encourage the study of public policy issues and to support scholarships for economics. "Senator Len B. Jordan dominated the Idaho political scene for many years. Each year the Len B. and Grace Jordan Endowment for Economics Studies allows us to honor senator Jordan and his wife, Grace, with a program that acknowledges and celebrates their place in Idaho history," said Don Holley, chairman of the department of Economics at Boise State. The Lecture Series is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the visitor lot behind the Student Union Building. For more information call 426-3351. Charlotte Twight is a professor of economics at Boise State. She received her Ph.D. and J.D. degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research has focused on the economics of public choice and its application to the growth of government in America. She has published articles in numerous scholarly journals, testified before Congress and is nationally recognized in her field. Dr. Twight will discuss her new book, Dependent on D.C., and her assessment of how dependence on the federal government has become a central characteristic of modern American politics. In her presentation, she will explain how America changed from a nation where the federal government played a relatively limited role in the day-to-day affairs of ordinary Americans to one in which there is almost no activity that the government cannot, at its discretion, regulate, manipulate or prohibit. Dr. Twight will describe a universal process by which, with bipartisan support, the Congress, the Supreme Court and the president have expanded the role of the central government without resort to formal amendment of the Constitution — frequently engineering policy changes initially against the will of the American public. Her presentation will show how the deliberate and recurrent use of the strategies she has documented, facilitated the creation and expansion of such federal programs as income tax withholding, Social Security, Medicare and systematic surveillance of ordinary citizens. Contact: Contact:
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