"Are We All Equal Under the Law?" will be the question discussed at the fifth annual civil rights symposium sponsored by the Cornell Political Forum Tuesday, April 14, at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall Auditorium on the Cornell University campus.

Free and open to the public, the symposium will feature Brenda Smith, an attorney with the National Women's Law Center; Jorge Amselle, communications director of the Center for Equal Opportunity, both in Washington, D.C.; and Anna Marie Smith, assistant professor of government at Cornell.

Brenda Smith is senior counsel for economic security at the National Women's Law Center and director of its Women in Prison Project. A specialist in women and crime, she is a 1984 graduate of the Georgetown University Law School and has been a Kellogg Fellow.

Amselle specializes in affirmative action, bilingual education and language issues.

The Cornell Political Forum is a nonpartisan undergraduate organization dedicated to providing opportunities for informed discussion through its sponsorship of panel discussions and debates on important topics. The forum also publishes an award-winning quarterly magazine that presents articles on important topics written by students from across the country.