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Calendar
Monday, Sept. 23
What: Last day for 50 percent refund.
When: All day
Where: All University
About: Last day to enroll, add or swap a class.
Tuesday, Sept. 24
What: Screening of "American Movie" and conversation with producer Sarah Price
When: 6:30 to 10 p.m.
Where: Budig Hall 110
About: Sarah Price, a director and producer, has had documentary films premiere and garner top awards at Sundance, Toronto and Berlin International Film Festivals.
About: Play bingo and win food, simple as that.
Where: Hashinger Hall, Black Box Theater
Wednesday, Sept. 25
What: SUA presents Grocery Bingo
When: 7 to 9 p.m.
What: Ten-year anniversary celebration of Amber Student Recreation Fitness Center.
When: 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Where: Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center
Cost: Free
What: International Peace and Conflict Studies Film Festival.
When: Spencer Museum of Art auditorium
Where: 5 to 7:30 p.m.
About: The center of Latin American & Caribbean Studies presents "Machuca" (2004). The film runs 121 minutes.
NATION
Thursday, Sept. 26
What: Facing Genocide and its Aftermath: "Cartographies of the Holocaust and Genocide"
When: 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Where: Hall Center, Seminar Room
About: Alberto Giordano, from Texas State University at San Marcos, will speak at a seminar open to faculty, staff and graduate students.
What: KU common book: An evening with author Timothy Egan.
When: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Where: Lied Center
About: In a free event, Timothy Egan, author of the 2013-14 KU Common Book "The Worst Hard Time," will speak to his experience writing "The Worst Hard Time," as well and take questions from the audience. A book signing will follow the event.
House passes bill aimed at shutting down Obamacare
I EMMA LEGAULT
elegault@kansan.com
On Friday, President Barack Obama addressed the recovery and growth of the automotive industry with employees at the Ford Motor Co. stamping plant in Claycomo, Mo.
Hours before he spoke, the House passed a spending bill that risks a government shutdown and defunding of the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamaacare. All four Kansas representatives voted to defund the program.
If a budget bill isn't passed before next Monday, the government won't be able to raise the debt ceiling and will default on its obligations—its "bills" thousands of Americans will
The bill is headed to the Senate, where it isn't likely to pass in it's current form.
and its future.
"Basically," Obama said, "America becomes a deadbeat."
House Democrats and a small number of Republicans echo President Obama's view. The president said those opposing the bill are simply trying to crush his legislation.
"They want to threaten default just to make sure that tens of millions of Americans continue not to have health care." President Obama said.
Republicans have voted on Obamacare issues 41 times, even after the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional in June 2012.
"Now they've gone beyond just holding Congress hostage, they're holding the whole country hostage."
President Barack Obama speaks to Ford Motor Co. stamping plant employess in Claycomo, Mo. on Friday, Sept. 20
feel the effects when they can't go to work or get their paychecks.
TARA BRYANT/KANSAN
A Congressional budget has passed routinely each year since the 1950s. A default has never happened.
President Obama criticized Congress' action, saying it could be "profoundly destructive" for America's reputation, it's economy
BARACK OBAMA U.S. President
According to President Obama, it is already reducing healthcare costs across the country, and is not hindering economic growth.
The bill has caused the
number of uninsured people in the United States to drop by allowing those age 26 and younger to remain on their parents' insurance, providing an extra cushion for a generally healthy demographic with insurance on the back burners of its mind.
"This freezes up some of the worries about finding that 'perfect'
job with benefits and creates new opportunities for young adults," wrote Jarron Saint Onge, assistant professor of sociology.
Republicans contend that the harm will come in the form of penalties that companies and individuals will have to pay for opting out of Obamacare coverage.
However, the Senate now has a choice: to pass the spending bill and eliminate Obamacare funding, or risk shutting down the government if a compromise isn't
reached by the 30th.
"Now they've gone beyond just holding Congress hostage, they're holding the whole country hostage," Obama said of the House Republicans.
He urged Congress to stop governing crisis-to-crisis and get back to work, focusing on the agenda at hand.
"The American people have worked too hard for too long digging out of a real crisis just to let politicians in Washington cause
another crisis," Obama said.
Obama expressed that he's more than willing to work it out and compromise.
"I don't mind them disagreeing with me," he said. "They don't like the Affordable Care Act, they'd rather have people not have health insurance, I'm happy to have that debate with them. But you don't have to threaten to blow the whole thing up just because you don't get your way."
CAMPUS
Pulitzer-winning journalist to address immigration issues
TIM DODDERIDGE
tdodderidge@kansan.co
Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas will give a lecture tonight about the immigration issue in the U.S., which Vargas has focused on for much of his career. Hosted by Student Union Activities, the event will take place in Budig 120 tonight at 7 p.m. An immigrant himself, Vargas poses a question to students concerning immigration reform: "Where do you stand?"
tdodderidge@kansan.com
when young people get in trouble. When he was 12, Vargas' family moved from the Philippines to the United States. But it wasn't until he was 16 that he discovered that he
"Indifference is unacceptable"
Vargas said. "Change only happens when young people get involved."
"I grew up with people referring to me, and people like me, as "illegal." I wanted to prove to people that I exist, that I'm actually here, that you're actually referring to a human being. Writing for me, and having a byline, was a way to do that," Vargas said.
Vargas has also branched out to the film medium. Recently, he spent time working on a documentary about the experiences of being an undocumented immigrant in America. Titled "Undocumented," students get the opportunity to see clins from the film at the event.
was undocumented. A year later, he became motivated to be a journalist.
"I'm not a politician. I'm not an organizer. I'm not a leader. I'm called an activist and advocate -okay, I have no control over that. But I don't consider myself any of those things. As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer, I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller and I'm working on the biggest story of my life, which happens to involve me," Vargas said.
Since the beginning of his career, Vargas has won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting, he's written a TIME Magazine cover story and he's spent a lot of time talking to people about immigration reform. He feels that his work has rewarded him with the gift of perspective.
"It has allowed me to really empathize with people and understand where they're coming from without judging them, and try to understand why they feel what
they feel," he said.
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Annie Matheis, Social Issues Coordinator for SUA, is one of many students who helped put the event together.
"As college students, we're at such a time where a speaker like this is
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really critical. It can really open our eyes to what real issues are in America and things that people deal with on a daily basis," Matheis said.
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