ATLANTA -- Tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. Oglethorpe University politics professor Dr. Joseph M. Knippenberg will be conducting a discussion on the scandal surrounding now ex-Congressman Mark Foley of Florida with a freshman "Political Leadership in Action" class.

The students will offer their considered judgment about how they think good political leaders would have handled the case. The question, Do we have "political leaders in action" or "political leader's inaction?” will be posed. How a leader ought to respond to behavior like that displayed by Foley will also be discussed.

This class recently attended a lecture at Oglethorpe University by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue on the importance of trust in politics and heard from six state representatives.

Dr. Knippenberg is a contributor to a nationally-known conservative blog (http://noleftturns.ashbrook.org), read by contributors to National Review's "The Corner" and to Power Line (Time magazine's 2004 blog of the year). He has posted twice on the Foley scandal (http://noleftturns.ashbrook.org/default.asp?archiveID=9115, http://noleftturns.ashbrook.org/default.asp?archiveID=9119). Dr. Knippenberg is also Oglethorpe’s Associate Provost for Student Achievement and Director of the Rich Foundation Urban Leadership Program. He has a B.A. from the James Madison College of Michigan State University, a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.