Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore praised recent efforts of Harvard students involved in environment and divestment campaigns during a speech focused on the health hazards of global warming which he gave in Memorial Church on Wednesday night.

On the heels of the announcement that the Supreme Court will hear two cases regarding gay marriage, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia defended some of his more controversial decisions concerning gay rights in a lecture Monday afternoon.

On Monday morning, the College Democrats at U. Central Florida held a rally at Memory Mall during which President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton were expected to speak to the UCF community.

Duke U. got its own foreign policy debate before the nation did Monday night. In the evening before the final presidential debate, Karl Rove—political analyst and former senior advisor to former President George W. Bush—debated Howard Dean—former governor of Vermont and former Democratic National Committee Chairman—on the effects of the 2012 Presidential Election on America’s role in global politics in a fully packed Page Auditorium.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke about the importance of energy and its status as a 21st-century foreign policy priority at Georgetown U. Thursday afternoon.