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Mort Rosenblum talks to students about his experiences as a foreign correspondent. Rosenblum also discussed his views on the future of journalism.
Journalist tells own story
BY CHRIS HONG chong@kansan.com
Mort Rosenblum has been to more than 200 countries throughout his 50-year career as a foreign
He has been to Vietnam.
He has been to Bosnia. And on Monday, he visited Lawrence for the first time.
Rosenblum
Rosenblum spoke about
his experiences as a journalist and offered advice to a group of students Monday morning at the Resource Center in Stauffer-Flint Hall. He said it's important to help future journalists effectively develop their craft.
"I personally don't want to be in the generation that switched out the lights and said good luck to everyone else," he said.
Along with speaking at universities, Rosenblum teaches a reporting class at the University of Arizona and has written a number of books. His most recent work, "Little Bunch of Madmen," is a guide for not only young correspondents covering global news, but also for readers who follow the news. Rosenblum also founded Reporting Unlimited, a group that aims to inspire and groom the next generation of foreign correspondents.
Rosenblum left the University of Arizona to work for the Mexico City Times at the age of 17. After returning to Arizona and finishing his journalism degree, The Associated Press sent Rosenblum to the Congo to cover the mercenary wars in 1967. The lists of historical events he has covered and the pictures on his website including one of him face to face with Fidel Castro - paint a picture of a long, fulfilling and dangerous career. Rosenblum said the scariest moment of his career was covering the death squads in Argentina during the 1970s.
"Society has to understand that this is not possible unless these professional people somehow get paid, and the people who produce the news make some money."
Rosenblum also discussed the transition from print to online content in journalism. He said he understands the advantages the Web offers the media, but people must still be willing to pay for the news. He said professionally trained journalists are a necessity for a properly informed society.
Even though he said journalists need to be able to make a living, he said his motivation was never money or the personal glory that came with writing stories.
"You don't want to analyze it, because you can't," he said about handling the fear that is sometimes associated with the job.
"The main thing is the satisfaction of getting a good story across," he said. "It's the challenge of really doing it right."
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sities that produced the most Peace Corps volunteers in 2010, sending 47 men and women to volunteer around the world. The top ranked school, the University of Colorado, produced 117 volunteers. So far this year, 22 KU graduates have been nominated to work with the Peace Corps.
In continued celebration, the Peace Corps offices will host an application workshop for prospective volunteers this Thursday, March 3. Ben Weichman, director of the KU Peace Corps program, encourages anyone curious or interested in international community service to attend the workshop.
"We're encouraging juniors and seniors who are possibly considering entering the Peace Corps to attend," Weichman said, "but we are also encouraging sophomores to come out to get a sense of what we are about."
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"Last week there was talk of potential oil going over $200 a barrel if we saw absolute civil war in Libya," Staihr said. "Of course oil has never been that high, God willing it will never be that high."
However, if oil prices continue to rise, it could be detrimental to the U.S. economy.
cost of getting bagels to the deli goes up, it has to trickle through some how. It's basically a ripple effect."
"Anything that people buy, anything that gets delivered uses gas, which uses oil," Stairh said. "It's a fundamental input to production. And it tricks through everything. Take a delivery truck delivering bagels to a deli. If the
The high cost of oil doesn't only affect suppliers, but consumers as well. Staihr said because gas is such an economic necessity, the demand never decreases and prices continue to climb. People need gas to get around, and are often spending money put aside for something else on filling up their tanks.
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Adult businesses could see more location restrictions
BY JONATHAN SHORMAN jshorman@kansan.com
Adult businesses may be placed under new restrictions if the Community Defense Act passes through Kansas legislature.
The Community Defense Act would prohibit semi-nude dancers from touching patrons and would restrict adult businesses, which includes both strip clubs and pornography shops, from operating within 1,000 feet of schools, parks, houses of worship and other adult businesses.
Under the current bill, existing adult businesses would be grandfathered in.
Philip Bradley, a Lawrence-based lobbyist for adult entertainment businesses, said adult bookstores should be considered separately from adult entertainment.
"The two of them are linked in one bill, and that's the problem," Bradley said.
Bradley said adult entertainment businesses were already regulated and that communities have come out against new regulations on strip clubs because it would override local regulations already in place. When the House Committee on Federal and State Affairs sent the bill to the full House, it attached a note acknowledging that the bill is opposed by some local governments.
Family and women's groups have come out in support of the bill. Michael Schuttloff, director of the Kansas Catholic Conference, testified before the committee last week that the bill would place necessary restrictions of adult businesses.
"If there can be no possible regulation of the establishment of so-called 'adult entertainment centers' next to our homes, schools, churches and playgrounds, then what space will be left to the great majority of us that are deeply offended by their presence and wish to avoid their
Bradley said that there was little evidence to support claims that adult businesses lead to higher crime. If anything, strip clubs have lower rates of crime because of increased police and security presence, Bradley said.
"It's a solution looking for a problem," Bradley said.
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