Six Hamilton students participated in the first "West Point Conference on Law and Terrorism," held April 13-16 at West Point. The students included Keturah Brown, Drew Conway, Jay Waclawski, Niki DaFoe, Nate Adler and Ashley Herriman. Accompanying them was Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law Frank Anechiarico, who led a session at the conference on "Civil Liberties versus National Security."
Other participants included students from Amherst College, the other four service academies and the University of California. Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist and Harvard Law Professor Anthony Lewis was also in attendance as were Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberities Union, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
The Hamilton students each had a cadet sponsor while at the Academy and stayed in the barracks during the conference.
The conference was inspired by a visit made by a West Point professor of law, LTC Davic Wallace, and two cadets to the Hamilton College Program in Washington, D.C., last fall. The very lively and informed exchange during that visit moved LTC Wallace to organize a larger, more thorough conference.
The conference was opened by remarks from the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy General William Lennox.
