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hadn't even been reading newspapers are now getting activated and politicized," Granin said.
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He said for all practical purposes, writers had stopped writing literature and instead were writing articles for newspapers and speaking on television and radio.
"A writer by his nature is usually someone who is in opposition to the existing order, and he has to have a critical outlook on the policies of the leadership of the country," Granin said.
However, he said that writers realized they could not do this now.
"Despite all the traditions of Russian literature, a large group of writers, including myself, did not criticize Gorbachev, but supported his policies," Granin said.
He said recent events were witness to the fact that writers gradually were winning out.
Many changes even have occurred in the week that Granin has been in the United States.
"A writer used to be able to go away for a year and a half and nothing would change," he said.
Grainin emphasized the importance of the writers.
"We have a wealth of spiritual and cultural life," he said. "And it has done its work and will not allow the situation to return to what it was in the past."
Mikkelson said after the speech that the fact that writers had turned away from literature was not beneficial for the development of Russian literature.
"But I don't think there's any alternative," he said.
"They are being listened to by the leadership — particularly by Gorbachev." he said.
Mikkelsen said the writers were making a positive impact and would consider themselves irresponsible if they stopped.
The gap of Soviet literature is being filled by the publications of writings that were not allowed to be published before, he said.
published before. "The journals are being packed with this kind of stuff," Mikkelson said.
Delores Tolar, Lawrence resident, said after the speech that Lawrence had a very important place in history with the Soviet writer-exchange program. The Soviet writer-in-residence program at KU is 15 years old.
"Lawrence has an important role." Tolar said. "We can actually help the relations between our two countries."
She said the two countries could cooperate for a more harmonious world.
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"As we got close to the Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin Wall, we could see a Christmas tree had been erected," Wampole said. "It was about as tall as the Wall. There were thousands and thousands of people."
He said it was raining, and people were waving peace flags and drinking champagne. Some people were dancing on German police vans that were lined up near the Wall in front of the gate.
"I had to get a picture of me doing something that I would always remember," he said. "People were dancing on the vans so I joined them."
Wampole said people also were climbing up and down the Wall in front of the Gate.
"I thought, 'I've got to climb the Wall.'" he said.
However, Wampole said after a while, police came in and formed a line preventing more people from standing on the wall.
After climbing down, Wampole and his friends decided they wanted to see an opening in the Wall to East Berlin. But he said there were so many people that they were pushed across the border to East Berlin.
People demonstrated, television cameras filmed the crowd and East Berliners handed out food and coffee, he said.
"I'll never forget it," he said. "You could just feel the excitement."
Von Stein said, "It was very exciting for all of us and maybe more for me because I was the only German in our group."
He said it was the first time he had been to East Germany.
"You couldn't distinguish between Eastern and Western people," von Stein said. "Everybody was happy; there was no violence. Everybody was just brothers and sisters."
was Von Stein said he talked to an East German policeman sitting alone on his car in East Berlin.
he told me the everyday better now," von Stein said. "He was smiling and friendly. It was the first time I met a friendly German guard."
guard.
Wampole's mother, Ann McCloskey of Hillsborough, N.C., said it was exciting to see pictures of her son on the Wall. However, the first thing she noticed was his clothes.
"The only thing is he dirtied his Kansas sweatshirt," she said with a laugh. "That was the first thing I noticed — just like a typical parent."
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not the purpose of the film, said DePasep, Emporia senior.
Some student groups thought that they were being left out by not being represented in the film, but that was
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"I just hope that they'll be more inclusive," she said.
Thirty seconds of the 90-second film are still open for shooting, said DePaeume, a theater and film studies major. The Office of Minority Affairs has the final say on the content of the last 30 seconds.
Marshall Jackson, interim director of the Office of Minority Affairs, said the office was not sure what to do with the 30 seconds. However, he
Tim DePaepe, director of the film, said the film, which might be ready after spring break, intended to depict individuals and not student groups.
physically disabled. She said the committee should have done more to cover cultural diversity.
hoped it would enhance the message of the preceding 60 seconds.
Jackson said that portraying student groups was not the purpose of the film.
"They're saying that they've been left out," he said. "But this piece is not to highlight one specific group. The kind of thing we're doing with this film does not fit what they want to be done."
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