Howard Payne News

Abilene Reporter News
03.01.05

March 1, 2005

Jazz concert tonight
Howard Payne University's Jazz Ensemble is performing a big band concert featuring jazz worship music at 7:30 p.m. today in Mims Auditorium. Featured selections include sound tracks from Billy Graham films as well as other gospel and spiritual arrangements. The concert is free and open to the public.

HPU hosts lectureship

David L. Hudson Jr., an attorney at the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, will be the speaker Friday Howard Payne University's Spring 2005 Brand Chair Lecture.
His topic will be ''The First Amendment in Public Schools.''
The event is 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Adams Street Community Center, sponsored by the Academy of Freedom. The program will conclude with a roundtable discussion on religious liberty in the public schools, involving the speaker and representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Liberty Legal Institute.
Hudson is a First Amendment contributing editor for the American Bar Association's Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases. His articles have been published in The National Law Journal, the ABA Journal and the Tennessee Bar Journal.