Christopher Edley Jr., Harvard Law School professor and senior adviser to President Clinton, will present the keynote speech at RIT's Fourth Annual Conference on Racism April 19-20. Edley's address, at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 19, in Ingle Auditorium, kicks off exploration of the conference topic, "Race Relations: Where Are We Today?" The author of Not All Black & White: Affirmative Action, Race and American Values, Edley is founding co-director of The Civil Rights Project, a recently launched think-tank based at Harvard.

RIT will participate in President Clinton's Initiative on Race April 8, when a "campus town hall meeting" takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. in Ingle Auditorium, Student Alumni Union. The President's Initiative on Race has established April 6 to 9 as Campus Week of Dialogue on Race, says Alfreda Brooks, chair, RIT Commission for Promoting Pluralism. "The panel will focus on race relations—where are we today?" Brooks says. "It will address perspectives regarding the RIT campus, the local Rochester area as well as national perspectives."

RIT's Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, William Daniels, will leave the deanship on June 30 to return to teaching, announces Stanley McKenzie, provost and vice president for academic affairs. McKenzie plans to select a 1998-99 interim dean by early May, and create a college Liaison Committee to search for a new dean. After 10 years as dean, Daniels leaves with some satisfaction of the shape and the progress made in his college. "I feel the college is better-centered now in the Institute.