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Category: political science
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Lyon College Students Build Bridges Across Political Differences Through Braver Angels Workshop
Lyon College students gathered Thursday evening, Dec. 4, in Walker Room, lower floor of Edwards Commons, for a focused workshop aimed at improving how people talk about politics across differences. Hosted by the Lyon College Political Science Club and co-sponsored by the Young Progressives and Turning Point USA, the event brought Braver Angels, a national organization dedicated to reducing political polarization, to campus for hands-on training in civil discourse.
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Monday, September 16, 2024
Lyon College Invites Public to Election Talk by Skip Rutherford
Lyon College will welcome political strategist and former dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, James L. "Skip" Rutherford, for a presentation on the upcoming presidential election on Friday, Oct. 11, at 4 p.m. in Bevens Music Room in the Brown Fine Arts Building on the Lyon College campus, 2300 Highland Rd.The free event will be hosted by the Lyon College Political Science program. Light refreshments and coffee will be provided. The presentation will be followe...
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Lyon College to host 2023 Behavioral World Politics Symposium
Lyon College political science students will present their original research examining individual behavior as it relates to important questions in international relations at the 2023 Behavioral World Politics Symposium on Thursday, April 27, from 1-2:15 p.m. in the Bevens Music Room of the Brown Fine Arts Building on the campus at 2300 Highland Rd., Batesville.
The event is free and open to the public.
“Although scholars often treat sovereign states as the primary actors in world ...
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Thursday, November 3, 2022
James L. “Skip” Rutherford III hosts Midterm Election Seminar at Lyon College
Politics. Often heralded as one of the key topics to avoid over the Thanksgiving table, or at family reunions, politics is a special, bitter-sweet discussion that affects everyone whether they want it to or not.
To help bring a bit of political discourse to Lyon College’s campus, James L. “Skip” Rutherford III has been hosting a midterm election based seminar over the course of the semester to help get students, faculty and staff more involved in the ever volatile worl...
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Friday, September 20, 2019
Kemp: Constitution was ‘experiment in democracy’
Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court John Dan Kemp advised Lyon students not to take their freedoms for granted.
Kemp visited the College on Sept. 17 to celebrate Constitution Day, discussing the history of the Constitution and how it related to his experience working in the judicial branch. Reflecting on a recent 9/11-centered event, Kemp said he was reminded that most college students either were not born or were too young to remember the hijackings.
“Those of us who ar...
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