Friday March 23, 2007
6-9 p.m.
Cocktail reception

Heavy hors d`oeuvres at Garrett Faculty Master’s House (# 17 on the Whittier College Map)


Saturday March 24, 2007
8:00 am
Registration and check in
Location: Ruth B. Shannon Center (#3 on the Whittier College Map)


8:30-9:20 am
Registration/Continental Breakfast with the Profs
Location: Ruth B. Shannon Center

- Bocce Ball with Mike McBride

9:30-9:55 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Location: Ruth B. Shannon Center

10:00-11:00 am
Panel Discussion—Political Economy Of Ports
Location: Ruth B. Shannon Center

Miguel Lopez- International Brotherhood of Teamsters-Port Division (So.
Calif.)
Jim Brandt - Business leader/Civic activist
Surupa Gupta- Visiting professor of Political Science, Whittier College
Moderator: Matt Kaplan - Senior Director of Technology for UCES at Cal. State Long Beach

11:00-12:00 pm
Panel Discussion—Civil Liberties and Transportation/Homeland Security
Location: Ruth B. Shannon Center

Joe Akrotirianakis- Office of the US Attorney
John Neu- Professor of Political Science and Business Administration, Whittier College
Les Howard ‘62- Professor of Sociology, Whittier College
Moderator: Victor Griego ’78 CEO of Diverse Strategies for Organizing

12:00 am-12:45 pm
Lunch

1:00-1:35 pm
Keynote Presentation
Location: Ruth B. Shannon Center


1:30-1:55 pm
Q & A with the keynoter.

2:00-3:00 pm
Panel Discussion—Transportation Security: Protecting America’s Infrastructure
Location: Ruth B. Shannon Center

Capt. John Holmes- Deputy Executive Director of Operations at the Port of Los Angeles
Victor Fritz ’81 /Geoff Boyce- SSR Engineering
Doug Kramer ’86- President, Kramer Metals
Moderator: Brandon Valeriano ’99- Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois, Chicago

Keynote address: Erroll Southers- Former deputy director of the California Governor's Office of Homeland Security


3:00-3:15 pm
Closing Remarks
Location: Ruth B. Shannon Center

3:30-4:00 pm
Refreshments with the Profs
Location: Chapel