Contact: Bill Caldwell, Pace, 212-346-1597, wcaldwell@pace.edu

New York City Mayor candidate forum:

New York City Councilman Tony Avella and the city’s Controller William Thompson, two candidates for New York City Mayor, to speak at Pace University, Monday July 27 (doors open at 5:30 PM)

Later forum to involve race for Public Advocate

New York, NY, July 22, 2009 – A forum for candidates in the race to become New York City Mayor will take place at Pace University’s Downtown campus on Monday, July 27 at 6:15 PM in the Student Union (Spruce Street entrance). Media admission by press pass. Doors open at 5:30 PM.

The candidates participating are New York City Councilman Tony Avella and the city’s Controller, William Thompson.

The forum is being hosted by the National Organization for Women NYC and Pace University’s Pforzheimer Honors College, Department of Political Science, and Department of Government and Community Relations.

On August 19 at 6:30pm the candidates for New York City Public Advocate will participate in a forum, which will be hosted by the Manhattan Young Democrats.

The Pace venue has come to be known as a cockpit for political forums, as well as cultural activities, as the University works to bring its students first-hand encounters with the democratic process and serve as a venue for discussion of critical issues.

Presidential. In 2003 the University hosted the first nationally-televised debate by the Democratic candidates for President; since then it has hosted New York City mayoralty debates, New York State gubernatorial debates, and town hall meetings with US Senators about Social Security Reform, not to mention frequent topical presentations by outstanding leaders in business, nursing, education, computing, law and the liberal arts and sciences. Faculty members frequently appear as experts in the national and international media and students regularly win national Model UN competitions and grill national figures in a political science course carried by C-Span.

For 103 years Pace has produced thinking professionals by providing high quality education for the professions on a firm base of liberal learning amid the advantages of the New York metropolitan area. The private university has campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York enrolling nearly 13,000 students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in its Lubin School of Business, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lienhard School of Nursing, School of Education, School of Law, and Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. www.pace.edu

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