Farrell will discuss death penalty

Actor and humanitarian Mike Farrell will visit Caltech as the next Social Activism Speakers Series lecturer on Thursday, May 6. The free public event will begin at 8 p.m. in Ramo Auditorium.
Best known for his roll as B. J. Hunnicut on the television series M*A*S*H, Farrell currently is the president of the nonprofit organization Death Penalty Focus, dedicated to abolishing capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research, and educating the public on the death penalty and its alternatives.

Farrell is also cochair of Human Rights Watch in California and a member of the advisory board of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. He was a founding board member of Peace Studies, ATV, an inmate-developed program on alternatives to violence at Augusta Correctional Center in Virginia. Following a trip to Bosnia and Somalia, Farrell was named Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

No tickets or reservations are required for the event. For more information, contact Public Events at 1 (888) 2CALTECH, (626) 395-4652, or events@caltech.edu, or visit www.events.caltech.edu. Individuals with a disability can call 395-4688 (voice) or 395-3700 (TDD).

The 2003–04 Social Activism Speaker Series is made possible with support from the Moore-Hufstedler Fund, Student Affairs, Campus Life, the Diversity Program Fund, the Alumni Association, Jack and Edith Roberts, the Graduate Student Council, the Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology, and the Caltech Y.
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