John Sarbanes: “5 years ago Salisbury University, which is located in the town of Salisbury on Maryland's Eastern Shore, established…”

“5 years ago Salisbury University, which is located in the town of Salisbury on Maryland's Eastern Shore, established PACE, the Institute for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement. PACE has a dual mission: to serve the communities of the Eastern Shore, using campus resources, faculty-student research teams and off-campus opportunities like internships and a voter registration drive to promote responsible citizenship and good government; and to promote the active engagement of students in civic affairs. For Salisbury Professors Harry Basehart, of the political science department, and Francis Kane, of the philosophy department, who together founded PACE and serve as its co-directors, this is a personal mission as well. Among PACE's many programs is an annual lecture series that brings to the campus distinguished guests to speak on issues of public life, especially issues that most concern Salisbury's students. The speaker this year, on March 29, was Congressman John R. Lewis, who represents Georgia's 5th Congressional District and is serving his ninth term. It is fair to say that in all his life from his childhood in rural Troy, AL, through his years as a student leader in the civil rights movement, to his dedicated service in the Congress Congressman Lewis has never known a day of lassitude, apathy or indifference. He spoke to Salisbury's students from the perspective of his own student years, and I have rarely seen an audience listen with such focused intensity.…”