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NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2007
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accomplishments, and the student entries resulted in $5,200 for the individuals.
The placings are based on the accumulation of points in six writing competitions: profile writing, sports writing, in-depth writing, spot news writing, feature writing and opinion writing.
Each eligible university can submit two students' work in each category.
"It is a tribute to the quality or students and their professors that we finished first in the Hearst national intercollegiate writing contest," said Ann Brill, dean of journalism. "We value excellence in writing and I'm proud that the Hearst judges found us to be the best among the accredited schools that participated."
The University will occupy two of the eight spots in the National Writing Championship in San Francisco in June. Frank Tankard, Overland Park senior, who placed first in in-depth writing, and C.J. Moore, Shawnee senior, who placed second in sports writing and fifth in spot news writing, have a chance at winning more than $1,500 for
competing.
Other students who contributed to KU's first-place rank were Fred A. Davis III, Topeka senior, who placed ninth in profile writing and 17th in spot news writing; Michael Phillips, Wichita senior, who placed 12th in sports writing; Mark Viertheral, Dodge City senior, who placed fifth in profile writing; and Katherine Loeck, Lincoln, Neb., junior, who placed 12th in opinion writing.
Davis's story "Latter Day Stripper," which ran in the May 10, 2006, issue of The University Daily Kansan, was about a University student who was a dancer at All Stars and was a practicing Mormon. He said the reporting experience was unlike any held done before.
"I'd been at strip clubs before, but not from a reporting standpoint," Davis said. "You always get kind of strange looks with a note pad and pen while watching strippers."
Kansan staff writer Danae DeShazer can be contacted at ddeshazer@ kansan.com.
Edited by Kelly Lanigan
Hearst award winners
Davis III
Ninth place in profile writing, 17th in spot news writing
12th place in sports writing
Phillips
12th place in opinion writing
Loeck
First place in in-depth writing
Tankard
Moore
Second place in sports writing and fifth in spot news writing
Vierthaler
Fifth place in profile writing
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Walter Mondale, former vice president under President Jimmy Carter, gives a speech Thursday day evening at the Dole Institute of Politics. He stressed the need for mutual respect in Washington.
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He said when he and Carter were elected vice president and president in 1976, the vice presidency was viewed at that time as an "iffy office."
The vice president worked in both the executive and legislative branches of government, though the vice president was wanted in neither, he said.
He told Carter he thought he could serve the president better as a senator than as a vice president. But Carter insisted on the position and said that for the first time Mondale would be playing an integral role in the administration.
"We exercised the vice presidency," Mondale said.
He said that the expanded role of vice president has been taken too far in the current executive administration, and said that the vice president has now tried to influence various agencies about what to tell the president.
"Carter wouldn't like that," he said.
Mondale said there used to be more mutual respect between rivals in the Senate, as well as in presidential debates, compared with a more argumentative state of politics today. He
stressed the need to return to those days when honest differences were accepted among political rivals.
"It was about having an argument while accepting the good will of the opponent," he said. "This dividing America, trying to destroy each other, does not work."
He also called the Iraq-war issue the "elephant in the room" for the 2008 presidential candidates to take stands on.
Mondale said growing tensions with Iran also needed to be handled diplomatically, rather than through initial force.
The Dole Center had help bringing the vice president from his great niece, Lauren Leonard, Plymouth, Minn., sophomore, who was recognized before the lecture.
"Let's continue to put pressure on Iran to stop nuclear weapons, but let's also try to get some diplomatic talks with them," he said.
Kansan staff writer Tyler Harbert can be contacted at tharbert@ kansan.com.
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