MINNEAPOLIS — Faculty and student activists are pressuring the University of Minnesota to rescind its invitation to Condoleezza Rice.

The former Secretary of State is scheduled to give a speech on civil rights at the Twin Cities campus April 17 as part of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs’ lecture series. Math professor William Messing introduced a resolution to be considered by the University Senate next week which asks that the Rice speech be canceled because of her role in the wartime policies of the Bush administration.