For Immediate Release:  April 4, 2006
Contact:  Marsha Nishi Mullan     
610-328-8535      
http://www.swarthmore.edu/news/

New Republic Senior Editor, Zengerle, to Speak at Swarthmore April 10

Jason Zengerle, a senior editor at The New Republic magazine will speak at Swarthmore College on Monday, April 10, at 8 p.m. on "The Polarization of Political Media."  His talk will be in the Science Center, Room 101, and is free and open to the public.  Zengerle will also discuss his work at The New Republic.

Zengerle graduated from Swarthmore College in 1996 where he founded Spike, the College's humor magazine.  His work has also appeared in The New York Times magazine, Newsweek, Slate, Mother Jones, The Texas Monthly, Salon, and other publications.

This talk is sponsored by the Swarthmore College Forum for Free Speech.  For more information, please contact Albert Chang, at achang1@swarthmore.edu or 610-957-6347.