Capitol Steps To Kick Off Center For Ethics Programming At ‘Berg
The Capitol Steps, a popular and critically-acclaimed American political satire troupe, will perform at Muhlenberg College as the first event in the semester-long Center for Ethics series 2008: Politics, Ethics and Citizenship.Thursday, August 21, 2008 01:59 PM
This event, co-sponsored by the Muhlenberg Activities Council, will take place on Wednesday, September 3 at 7 p.m. in Memorial Hall (Life Sports Center). The performance, while free, is open to the College community only and requires tickets.
The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. Although not all of the current members of the Steps are former Capitol Hill staffers, taken together the performers have worked in a total of eighteen Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience.
Since they began, the Capitol Steps have recorded 28 albums, including their latest, Campaign and Suffering . They've been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS, and can be heard 4 times a year on National Public Radio stations nationwide during their Politics Takes a Holiday radio specials.
Student tickets are available in the Student Activities Office (lower level, Seegers Union) on Monday – Friday from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., at the College’s Labor Day Fest/Activities Fair on August 30 from 4 p.m. – 6 p.m., or in the Seegers Union lobby September 1 and 2 from 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. Faculty and staff members may pick up tickets from the Political Science Department on Monday – Thursday from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
2008: Politics, Ethics and Citizenship is presented in cooperation with the Political Science Department’s Election Series and co-sponsored by the Lectures and Forums Committee, with assistance from the Departments of Art, Media & Communication and Theatre & Dance, and the Muhlenberg Activities Council and the Multicultural Center. Muhlenberg College gratefully acknowledges the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation’s support of the Center for Ethics.
