[205]BASIC AMERICAN FREEDOMS EXAMINED ON “MTSU ON THE RECORD”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 18, 2008EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081; WMOT-FM, 615-898-2800

BASIC AMERICAN FREEDOMS EXAMINED ON “MTSU ON THE RECORD”
Contributors to First Amendment Encyclopedia Include 19 MTSU Scholars, Writers
(MURFREESBORO) – Village Voice jazz critic and free speech activist Nat Hentoff calls it “phenomenal.” Tennessean Publisher Emeritus John Seigenthaler says it “could not be more valuable. … In a real sense, [it] serves the public interest.” It’s the Encyclopedia of the First Amendment, a groundbreaking new reference work about the first 45 words in the U.S. Constitution. Two of the editors will be Gina Logue’s guests on the next edition of “MTSU on the Record” at 7 a.m. this Sunday, Nov. 23, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).
Dr. John Vile, dean of the University Honors College at MTSU, and David Hudson, adjunct MTSU political science professor and scholar at the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, will talk about the two-volume encyclopedia, the first of its kind ever published. Nineteen members of the MTSU community contributed to the work, which examines all five First Amendment freedoms—religion, speech, press, assembly and petition—through controversial works, laws and proposed laws, court cases, groups and organizations and much, much more.
For more information about “MTSU on the Record,” contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800. To listen to last week’s program, go to http://frank.mtsu.edu/~proffice/podcast2008.html and click on “November 16, 2008” at the top of the page.

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