The anniversary of the U.S. Constitution was celebrated last week by the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the Department of Government & Sociology, and the Law and Society Student Organization (LASSO) with a series of week-long discussions and lectures about the document and its meaning. On Sept. 12, students and faculty gathered in the A & S auditorium to hear Dr. Ralph Hemphill, professor of Political Science, lecture about the current constitutional issues before the U.S. Supreme Court. "I do not claim to be an expert on the U.S. Constitution, but a student of its principles," Hemphill said. He...