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INSURING A HEALTHY FUTURE
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Protesters representing Moveon.org rallied outside City Hall in support of a nationwide health care system on Sept. 22. Protesters like Dot Nary, right, said that the protesters were met with favorable car honks and very little negativity. The local chapter plans to hold events in the future but none are planned as of yet.
Stepping up to the debate
College Republicans hold forum to stress insurance importance
BY ZACH WHITE white@kansan.com
The growing health care concern in Washington managed to reach campus this week.
The KU College Republicans hosted a health care forum Tuesday evening in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union. Eric Foss, KU law student and president of College Republicans, said he thought the forum was a part of the party's obligation.
"The purpose of this forum is not to oppose reform, but to fulfill the role of opposition party." Foss said. "That is, to offer legitimate critiques of the
majority party's proposals and also offer alternatives and suggestions that can be incorporated into whatever policy the majority passes."
The group brought two experts in the health care field to talk about the proposed reforms from their perspective.
The first to speak was Dr. Richard Warner, a psychiatrist from Overland Park and policy scholar for the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy in Wichita. Warner began the forum assuring the attendees of the importance of any upcoming reform
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Students mostly uninvolved in discussions, protests
BY DANIEL JOHNSON
djohnson@kansan.com
Nearly 50 people carried "Health care for all" signs while shouting chants outside of City Hall on Sept. 22. Some gave speeches. Others cheered as passing cars honked in approval.
The protesters' voices were loud and clear.
But in this portrait of local political activism, not a student was in sight.
"I think for a lot of college students this isn't a huge issue," said Jo Andersen, former Lawrence mayor and coordinator for the local Moveon.org Council that
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Lawrence "protester" Norm White participates in "Billionaires for Healthcare" outside City Hall on Sept. 22. The fake protest was an event of the nationwide organization. The organization, whose slogan is "If we ain't broke, why fix it?" was formed to bring light to insurance company profiteering.
ENTERTAINMENT
Foreign films show life in the Soviet Bloc
BY ZACH WHITE
zwhite@kansan.com
The Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies is hosting a screening of "The Lives of Others" at 7 p.m. tonight in 318 Bailey Hall. Complimentary refreshments will be provided.
"The Lives of Others" is a 2006 German film showing the dismal struggles of artists and the secret police who watch them in totalitarian East Germany in the mid to late '80s. It received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
"The Lives of Others" is the second of five films being shown by CREES this semester as a part of the Fall of the Wall film series. The film series is a part of the center's semester long study of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The films all come from former Soviet Bloc nations including Germany, Pland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. All of the films tell different stories of life behind the Iron Curtain and the changes that arose when the wall fell.
Edith Clowes, director of CREES, helped pick the films out for the series. She said these films were all fantastic depictions of the changes that occurred 20 years ago.
"They are aesthetically interesting," Clowes said. "And they air difficult questions about political resistance and political collusion."
The film series is only one of the events sponsored by the center for this semester. Bart Redford, assistant to the director of CREES, explained that the main focus was a conference later this month called Central Europe 1989: Lessons and Legacies.
"We've got a number of different scholars come in and present on various topics," Redford said, "But it's all tied into the fall of the wall."
Polish poet Izabela Filipiak will be reading her work at The Raven Book Store, 6 E. 7th St., on Oct. 19 as well.
The film series part of the festivities will feature a new film every other week except the week of fall break. CREES is also hosting the conference.
— Edited by Jonathan Hermes
MEDIA
Justin Sailer, El Dorado senior, interviews Army Major Mark Lenhart. KU journalism students interviewed more than thirty members of an armed services class yesterday.
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Working together: media and military
BY RAY SEGEBRECHT rsegebrecht@kansan.com
"Most of the time when we ask officers if they want to do an interview, they say, 'No, I don't want to go on record,' Warner said. "For them to get in front of the camera is never exciting."
The soldiers have braved some of the most difficult challenges imaginable, in combat in both Iraq and Afghanistan. They came to the University of Kansas, said their course director John Warner, to confront a very different challenge interacting with the media
More than 30 officers from different branches of the armed services traveled from Leavenworth to Lawrence yesterday morning.
To meet this struggle, the Leavenworth students paired up with journalism students for interviews in the Big 12 Room of the Kansas Union with the hope of
Warner said he and professors of the School of Journalism had planned similar meetings between their students for the last four years.
"We both work for the same people, the American people."
building better understanding and communication between their two professions.
JAMES TURNER
Detroit Army Captain
but more University students attended the event this year than in the past.
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During the interviews, the officers experienced the process of undergoing an interview and relayed the challenges that
have they have noticed between the military and the media. The student journalists practiced their
interviewing skills and received advice from the soldiers on their performance.
"I think it helps make us more comfortable with the media," said Mike Goodwin, an army major from Columbia, S.C. who participated in the exchange. "We're not so different, one form or the other. We've just chosen a different life of service than they have."
James Turner. Detroit Army captain and another participant in the event, said that although the services differed vastly, the people
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