Harold Ford Jr., former Democratic congressman from Tennessee, shares political insight with students in a legislative politics class taught by Michael Minta, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences. Ford was on campus Oct. 7 to deliver the Elliot Stein Lecture in Ethics, an annual Assembly Series program supported by the Stein Lecture Fund. In his address in Graham Chapel, Ford commented on the national challenges facing the Obama administration, most notably whether to send more troops to Afghanistan and health care reform.