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Approximately 350 people are expected to attend the event. Baker, formerly U.S. Ambassador to Japan, will deliver remarks at the dinner, along with UT trustee and council member William B. Stokely III and Development Council past chairs Ben Kimbrough and John W. Fisher.

Also on Friday, USA Today founding editorial director John Seigenthaler will moderate a discussion with Baker on a wide range of topics. The session is set for 2 p.m. in room 32 of the Alumni Memorial Building.

The 68-member council is convening this weekend in Knoxville for its semiannual business meeting as well as to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Among the members are UT trustees Clayton McWhorter and John Thornton, and Chattanooga Times-Free Press publisher Tom Griscom.

Fifty years ago, fund raising at public universities was in its infancy. UT was one of the first public institutions in the South to organize business and civic leaders to help attract private gifts.

UT founded its Development Council in 1955 under the leadership of Dr. Andy Holt. The citizen group was charged with securing gifts to help grow the university to greatness. In the ensuing 50 years, the Development Council has answered the call and helped raise $1.5 billion for the statewide UT system.

UT President John Petersen acknowledged the important role of the Development Council.

“The council and the legacy it has built are the keys to success. I challenge us all to begin the Development Council’s next 50 years with a renewed commitment to a partnership and a promise that will assure UT’s legacy continues.”
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John Seigenthaler, chairman and founder of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, addressed more than 800 summer graduates.

Seigenthaler said futurists envision a world in which ordinary chores such as going to work, shop, vote or pay bills can be done at home via computer “cyberspace.”

This “world without walls” can come to fruition and benefit society only if people reason, reflect and think for themselves, he said.

“Do not labor for the cause of technology. Make technology labor for the cause of a better, more enlightened society,” Seigenthaler said. “Use your intellect to control the medium. Never let the medium control you.”

It is important that those who learn new communications technologies do not use them as a refuge to escape real-life problems, Seigenthaler said.

“Human sensitivity must not be sacrificed on the altar of technology,” Seigenthaler said. “Problems will not evaporate from our lives simply because some of us run indoors. Cyberspace is a place to live in and learn in and enjoy. It is not a place to flee and hide.”

Seigenthaler also cautioned the graduates against:

* Letting new communications become a wedge that divides society into haves and have-nots and creates a new wave of illiteracy.

* Surrendering to the government your right to decide what you can or cannot access on the information superhighway.