Investigative journalist will speak at WSUV

Seymour Hersh is coming to WSUV in April to give a speech as part of the Public Affairs Lecture Series.

We at The VanCougar are pretty excited about Hersh's visit, because he's a journalist. He is probably best known for breaking the story of the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War. He's still going strong, writing about Iraq, Iran and other hot-button issues.

As you might know, the Public Affairs Lecture Series alternates viewpoints every year--last year the lecturer was John Ashcroft and the year before it was Howard Dean. They usually generate both support and controversy, in varying proportions.

Watch for an in-depth article about the upcoming lecture in Issue #13 of The VanCougar, due to be published on March 26.

In the meantime, we are thinking about what for us is the most exciting part of the event: We get 15 minutes with Hersh and can ask him whatever we want. Because we are representing WSUV students, we'd like you to tell us what you would like to ask him, and from the list of submissions we will choose several questions to ask Hersh.

You can submit a question by posting to this blog or by contacting us using the info listed to the write of this post.