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Alex Pugh, a senior from Stuttgart, Germany, asks a question to the panel.
Panel discusses coverage
BY LAURA
NIGHTENGALE
Inightengale@kansan.com
MEET THE PANEL
Students, faculty and community members gathered last night to listen to guest speakers at a panel titled "Middle East Coverage: Substantive, Stereotypical or Sanitized?"
Featured guests included Sally Buzbee, Washington bureau chief for the Associated Press; John Cary, Middle East specialist at U.S. Army Command and General Staff College; John Montgomery, publisher and editor of the Hutchinson News; and Will Stebbins, former bureau chief for the Americas for Al-Jazeera English.
JOHN MONTGOMERY From the Hutchinson News
After panel members discussed coverage of Middle East politics and the current situation of Egypt, audience members were invited to take part in the discussion by asking questions. The panel mentioned Twitter and Lindsay Lohan before discussing more serious topics, such as the conflict in Sudan, during the event that lasted an hour and a half.
WILL STEBBINS Former chief of bureau for Al Jazeera English
SALLY BUZBEE Washington bureau chief for the Associated Press
JOHN CARY
"I think it's really good for anybody who is in any aspect of journalism to get some experience overseas," Buzbee said. "The world is such an interconnected
JOHN CARY Middle East specialist at U.S. Army Command College
Buzbee, KU alumna and former AP Middle East editor, offered firsthand testimony of the benefits of overseas correspondence.
PANEL DISCUSSION Check out Kansan.com for coverage from the panel
one now that people who are journalists need to understand the broader world."
KUH-TV and streamed on the School of Journalism's website.
The event was also aired live on
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A masquerade for all
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Brian Buntin, a freshman from Paola, preforms with his partner Sara Kennedy, a freshman from Topeka, during the mask workshop Thursday night at Murphy Hall. "I went to a couple of the workshops before this and I loved it so much that I just wanted to come back," said Buntin.
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cuts to mental health care across the state. For Johnson and others in the mental health community, the cuts will cause obvious harm.
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"Just because you say you're not going to spend any money doesn't mean people's mental illnesses are going to disappear," Johnson said.
He said he doubted the state could save a dollar for every dollar cut.
"If you think you're going to cut $15 million and save $15 million you're being naive," he said.
The Bert Nash Mental Health Community Center will face government budget cuts.
Richard Spano, associate professor and dean of the School of Social Welfare, agreed with Johnson.
The cuts could also make things harder for the School of Social Welfare. Students are required to complete a field practicum before they can get their bachelor's or master's degree.
"It's a fundamentally flawed way of thinking," he said.
Freda Herrington, director of field education, said that though it's impossible to know exactly how the cuts will affect Bert Nash and the field education program, the cuts could make it more difficult to get students the practicum they want.
Students in field practicums work with supervisors who volunteer their time to the program. Spano said that when state funding is cut the program either reduces the staff or pays them solely based on the hours of clinical work. This means that working with a student could take away time from working with patients and reduce paid time on the job.
"It would certainly be a significant loss to our field practicum program if Bert Nash were unable accept students," Herrington said.
"Incarcerating them is a very expensive proposition," Spaano said.
get cuts could also affect the way patients are treated. This is because the mentally ill are increasingly being treated by emergency rooms and general hospitals that aren't equipped to handle psychiatric disabilities. Many others end up in jail.
Spano said the potential bud-
account for 60 percent of the facility's pharmaceutical costs.
Spano says that so far, the budget cuts have not caused any problems with getting students into the field practicums they want and he says he's proud of the social workers who continue to help the students.
Fifteen percent of the inmates at the Douglas Correctional Facility are currently on a psychotropic drug, said Ken Massey, undersheriff of the Douglas County Corrections Division. Those same inmates
"They have continued to do the very best they can in helping the next generation of social workers," Spano said. "For that I'm very grateful."
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that is over 125 million years old.
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"It's the oldest of the troodontids from North America," Celina said. "We can tell by relative dating of the rocks that they are found in."
The twins have been interested in fossils since their childhood, and both chose the University to obtain their Ph.Ds.
"I don't know if I can remember time where I didn't want to do this for a living; my earliest memories
are of collecting rocks," Marina said. "Me and my sister and friends spent a lot of time looking for fossils."
The twins' KU advisor, Luis Gonzales, remembers the Suarez's time at the University fondly.
"They were very close and quite inseparable," Gonzales said. "It wasn't fair to me that when I had fights with grad students, it was one, but with them, it was two."
Celina is currently doing a post-
doctorate fellowship at Boise State University, and Marina is doing a fellowship at John Hopkins University.
"My mom said I could travel the world, but I definitely was not allowed to leave the planet," Marina said.
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