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Credit: Roy Groething
President Richard L. McCormick and
Sharon Ainsworth, Rutgers' director of
state relations, welcome Assemblyman
Kevin O'Toole, Cedar Grove (R-40), a
sponsor of the event
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More than 160 guests gathered at the Douglass College Center to hear distinguished speakers from federal and state government and law enforcement, the legal profession and Rutgers share their perspectives during a bipartisan Ethics in Government Forum.
President Richard L. McCormick welcomed the guests to the Oct. 26 event, sponsored and introduced by Assemblymen Kevin J. O’Toole, Cedar Grove (R-40), and Wilfredo Caraballo, South Orange (D-29), and hosted by Rutgers’ Office of State Relations. The forum, which included a question-and-answer session and reception, was an outgrowth of a similar program sponsored by the assemblymen and presented by the Essex County Bar Association in June.
“The idea for Rutgers to host this bipartisan forum grew out of a conversation between Assemblyman O’Toole and President McCormick,” explained Sharon Ainsworth, director of state relations. “The president offered to host the event and lend Rutgers’ outstanding faculty expertise to the discussion. He believes Rutgers has a unique role and responsibility as New Jersey’s state university and that hosting events on such timely topics serves the dual role of helping to inform the public debate while strengthening the university’s service commitment to the state.”
U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie (“Government Ethics: A Federal Perspective”); New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. Harvey (“A State Perspective”); and attorneys Thomas P. Scrivo and Walter F. Timpone, partners in McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP (“Government Accountability: Public-Private Perspective”) were joined as speakers by a diverse group of Rutgers faculty.
Alan Rosenthal, professor of public policy at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, addressed “Legislative Ethics,” while Edwin Hartman, director of the Prudential Business Ethics Center at the School of Business-Newark and New Brunswick, looked at “Bad Community/Bad Character.” John S. Beckerman, associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Law-Camden described “The Role of the Legal Profession in Ethics Regulation,” and Susan A. Sherr, director of Eagleton’s Civic Engagement and Political Participation program, detailed “The Role of the Citizen in Government Accountability.”
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