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Free speech champion to speak at MU By Elizabeth Holmgren Daily staff writer Ken Paulson has committed his professional career to the promotion of the First Amendment. For more than 30 years, Paulson has used his experiences as a lawyer and a journalist to advance First Amendment causes. As part of the 10th anniversary of Iowa State’s First Amendment Day Celebration, Paulson will be presenting his lecture “Re-booting America: News for a New Generation” at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Pioneer Room of the Memorial Union. Paulson is the former editor-in-chief and senior vice president of USA Today. He helped found the newspaper in 1982 along with a group of other journalists. Paulson now writes for the newspaper as a columnist, focusing on First Amendment issues Paulson founded 1 for All, a national nonpartisan movement in support of the First Amendment, on July 1, 2010. His effort was supported by more than 1,000 organizations. He also hosted the television program “Speaking Freely” and wrote “Freedom Sings,” a show commemorating the First Amendment through music and multimedia presentation. For the past decade, Paulson has appeared as a guest lecturer at the American Press Institute. His lectures focus on First Amendment issues and have been presented to thousands of journalists. Recently, he was chosen to receive the API Lifetime Service Award. Paulson currently serves as the president and CEO of the First Amendment Center, a center that is committed to informing citizens of their First Amendment rights. This lecture is free and open to the public.
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Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad speaks during the discussion titled “The Truth: Lean Finely Textured Beef,” hosted by the ISU Block and Bridle Club on Tuesday at the Farm Bureau Pavilion. Branstad asked audience members to support the beef industry through the debate about lean finely textured beef.
Forum beefs up debate Governor speaks about lean finely textured beef By Randi.Reeder @iowastatedaily.com
Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily Mike Callicrate, from Ranch Foods Direct in Colorado Springs, Colo., protests before Tuesday’s forum. Protesters said the “1 percent in control of the [beef] industry is out of control.”
Both sides of the lean finely textured beef debate were heard Tuesday at “The Truth: Lean Finely Textured Beef” forum. Before the forum began, protesters holding up signs reading “Fair Food Not Fake Food,” “AG GAG,” “Occupy the Food Supply” and “Cronyism Off Campus” came and stood outside of Kildee as the ISU Block and Bridle Club Grilling Team members prepared 400 burgers for the event. David Murphy, the founder and executive director of Food Democracy Now who is from Clear Lake, opened
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up an outdoor space for protestors such as George Naylor, a corn and soybean farmer from Churdan, Iowa, and the president of the National Family Farm Coalition, saying that the “1 percent in control of the industry is out of control.” The event was a fight against the pink slime smear campaign, which was voiced by state leaders of Iowa and beef industry representatives such as Gov. Terry Branstad, Janet Riley of the American Meat Institute and Nancy Degner of the Iowa Beef Industry Council. Others who spoke were Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, and Jim Dickson, professor of animal science. Brady McNeil, senior in animal
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Students take off footwear for cause By Liz.Zabel @iowastatedaily.com
the debate. The ISU College Democrats — represented by Michael Glawe, junior in finance and Daily opinion columnist; Annie Hartnett, sophomore in pre-business; Spencer Hughes, sophomore in speech communication; and Ross Kimm, sophomore in finance — explained why
Students at Iowa State went without shoes in an interactive walk through sand, gravel and pebbles and on a one-mile walk in an effort to understand what people without shoes must go through every day. To raise awareness for the suffering shoeless children endure every day, TOMS Shoes came up with the worldwide event “One Day Without Shoes” — an event the Student Union Board put on for its third year at Iowa State on Tuesday. Without shoes, millions of children are at risk of injury, disease and soil-transmitted infections; some children are not allowed to attend school without shoes, according to onedaywithoutshoes.com. In the Philippines, 30,000 people
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Photo: Nick Nelson/Iowa State Daily Moderator Thomas Beell of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communications gets things started for students of the College Republicans and ISU Democrats to debate in the Memorial Union.
ISU Democrats win debate Debate kicks off free speech celebration By Morgan.Fleener @iowastatedaily.com Approximately 75 people gathered in the South Ballroom of the Memorial Union on Tuesday night to witness the victory of the ISU
College Democrats over the College Republicans to start off First Amendment Day events. Judged by Michael Belding, opinion editor of the Iowa State Daily; Michael Dahlstrom, assistant professor of journalism and communication; and Jean Goodwin, associate professor of English, the teams each had 26 minutes to support and oppose the resolutions made during
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