EPIIC symposium on global sports to begin tonight

When then-fencing coach Sherman Teichman asked the University if he could teach a half-credit, six-week Experimental College class on terrorism and political violence in the fall of 1986, he could never have guessed that his idea would eventually become the now-famous Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC). The idea came to him in the midst of the TWA flight 847 hijacking crisis, which occurred just on the heels of the US embassy crisis in Tehran, Iran. Fencing was only a small part of Teichman's vast expertise - his background included experience with operations in Israeli security, counter-terrorism, and an extensive knowledge of foreign policy in the Middle East. As an Israeli native, Teichman has more personal experience with terrorism than many of his peers in the United States.