Environmental Debate Highlight of ‘Firing Line’ at Rice

Media Advisory

CONTACT: Michael Cinelli

PHONE: (713) 831-4794

ENVIRONMENTAL DEBATE HIGHLIGHT OF ‘FIRING LINE’ AT
RICE

William F. Buckley Jr. brings his “Firing Line”
program to Rice University this Friday, March 14, and the public is invited to
the taping of a two-hour debate and two half-hour shows on a first-come basis.

The debate topic is “Resolved: Environmentalists have gone too far, too
fast.” Former CNN “Crossfire” personality Michael Kinsley will moderate the
arguments among eight participants, including Buckley, Idaho Senator Larry
Craig, former California governor Jerry Brown, Sierra Club director Carl Pope,
and others.

Following the debate, Buckley and Kinsley will face free-wheeling questions
on any topic from a panel of Rice undergraduates for one half-hour program, then
take the challenges of law students from Dallas and Houston for the final half
hour.

The three programs will be taped in Stude Concert Hall of the Alice Pratt
Brown Hall on the Rice University campus. Parking will be available in the
stadium lot adjacent to the building.

Public seating for the 2 p.m. debate will be from 1:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.,
with no one allowed in or out of the hall until the conclusion of taping at 4
p.m.

Seating for the two half-hour programs will be from 4 p.m. to 4:10 p.m. and
from 4:40 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. respectively.

For more information call Rice’s Public Affairs Office at 831-4700, extension
102, or E-mail to firingline@rice.edu.

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