Posted: April 28, 2000 State legislators and high school
students will discuss the internment of Japanese Americans
during World War II, including what has been learned to prevent
discrimination in the future, from 10 to 11 a.m, Tuesday, May 2
in the State Capitol room 127. The meeting is sponsored by
LegiSchool, a civic education project of California State
University, Sacramento and the State Legislature. Panelists will
include students from Jesuit High School in Carmichael, New
Technology High School in Napa, San Fernando High School and San
Marino High School. Invited Legislative panelists include
Senator Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), Senator Ray Haynes,
(R-Riverside) and Assemblyman George Nakano (D-Torrance).
Students in the audience will be able to ask questions, as will
students from South High School in Torrance, who will
participate by telephone. Thousands of other students in
California will view the meeting live on the California Channel
or later on videotape. Paula Gardner, a professor in the CSUS
Col