Rowe Lecture focuses on press and security

Mary-Rose Papandrea, Professor at the Boston College School of Law, delivered the first Charles S. Rowe First Amendment Lecture Sept. 29.

Papandrea's address, The Press and National Security in Wartime, was co-sponsored by the Journalism Department and Brian Murchison, Charles S. Rowe Professor of First Amendment Law at Washington and Lee's School of Law. Rodney Smolla, dean of the University of Richmond's law school, responded to Papandrea's address.

The program attracted an audience of faculty and students from the law school and Reid Hall. The Rowe Chair in First Amendment Law is named for its benefactor, Charles S. Rowe '45, retired Editor/Publisher of the Free Lance -Star in Fredericksburg. Rowe and his wife, Lee, attended the lecture.