Le av in g an impression

White House greats bring wit, humor to Schuler

b) Darcie Jones

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Thrr~ individu.ils who lel"I a landmarl. in hb1ory made an appearance! :u the Popcorn Forum April 8.

Fir..t to take 1hc ,tugc wa, Thoma, Jdfcr,.on. lhird pre,idcm uf Uni1cd S1a1es and au1hor of the O.:dur.,1ion of Independence. He opened h1\ ,peech by apologi1mg io th,' audience for hi~ poor ,peal.ing skills. Schuler

Auditorium didn't ,;eem 10 noricc.

Dr. Clay Jenkill',on. a University of Ncv;1da instructor portrayed MfrNlll Jenkin..on ha.splayed Jefkr,on lllore 1han J,(XJ() time,. including at the White liou!>I!. Jeffcr,;on ,poke nbout the d1fliculties of dratling a O.:dara1ion ,,r lntk:pcmlcncc. Origmully. John Ada1m and BenJumm Frankhn wen: 10 help Jcfter,on compo~e the declarnt,on. but Jefferson ended up domg II on l11s own.

"'It', whal C\cr)· ;\merican \H'mld hav,: wrilli:_11." 0 Jcffer,on ,..,id

Con1,>re" reduced hi,, final copy of the declaration to oncfoutth ii,, original ,i1c. Jeffer~on felt II w~ important to builtl d ,ocie1y ba~ed on ju~uce and. with a linle help from Benjamin rr.inklin. cn111c up \\:ith:

··wehold 1hc,e tru1h, to be sclf-cvidcnr. th,11 all men are i:r.::ttc<l equut:·

Jdfo:r,011 me111ioned thar if he had known lh~ declar:11 ion w:1s going 10 be ,uch un 1mpnnan1 pan of his1ory. they ,hould have found someone else to write ir.

Lincoln. portrayed by Dr. 1larry William Fntt.. a h1Story professor from the Unrvt:rslly of Montana. opened hh, s~h by 11,~ing about the W'JY he mi,lllkenly carv~'CI Montana out IO be ~uch a huge ~late. leaving a large panhandk on the swte of Idaho.

Lincoln was born in 1809 in Kentucky, clo..c Jeffo.r..on Davis. future leader of the ~th. Lincoln C\ entually moved nonh and led them in the Civil War b;111lc: His dad wa, a d~mocrat who hmcd slavery. Strong convic1ion, muM have rubbed off on Lincoln. also having a hate for ,h1very. He wa, la1er elected to four 1erms of the head of th.: legislative "Whig"" pany.

Before becoming pre~ident. Lmcoln worked as a lawyer for nearly 20 years. In 1846 he was elected to the House of Repre!.entillive and in 1858 lost 1he race for Illinois senator to Steven Douglas. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was et.:c1ed as 16th U.S. Prcs1den1 for the republican party. He i~ now thought by many h1,1orians to be one of lhc greatc,1 pre,ident,. ··My line,, occomplisl1111cnt wm, uidinc in 1hc end of ,lavo!ry:· Lincoln said.

Slavery was lhc soulh s 1?.rcmc,1 source of ,1rcng1h. so he ~rged 1he north 10 em:mcipate. This le.id m trcuung the Emancipllli(1n Proclamation.

Lincoln believed not only that all men arc creaicd equal. bul they an: equal dc,pi1e 1heir ,kin color Next. l.:lcanor Roosevelt. firs1 Indy of the United States explained the many hurdships of her life. Roosevelt was played hy Su tun Jan b king. and a,siMant cnglbh professor at Tulsa Comm.unity College

She wa.:; married to Presidenl Franklin D. Roosevelt. Later. her husband was qricken wi1h polio and died. This fon:ed R()(,~velt m mke on many tasks that her husbund nom1ally took care of. In Dec 1945. after President Truman took office. Truman asked Roosevelt to serve as the delegate for 1hc United Nations. I was so scared."' she said. It was now time to face her fears that she tried to put aside for so many years.

She was determined 10 land free of black discrimination She pur her belief~ to work by helping draft the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. She also became an ac1ivist for ~ocial juMice and civil rights.

'"You muM make up your own mrnd, she said. "Or someone cbe will do it for you."

Tsar, Birth Control activist share stage

Peter the Grcal speaks on being Tsar of Russia

by Jenny Schuldheisz St'nti111:I Reportl!r

The Thur\day response panel for the Popcorn Forum eonsi~tcd of many famous charac1ers such as Queen Victoria. Peter the Grc:1t. und Susan 8. Anthony. all dressed in fancy auire 10 attrac1 the crowd.

Peter 1he Grea1. played by ,tul.len1 Munul Khnlliev. spoke of his experience a, Tsar of Rus~iu With no fonnal education cxc;ipt fo1 the tcuclung~ ol a priest, he munagecl to unite lh~ country thm Inter hccame the Soviet Union and today is Rui,sia. When the S1rcll~y (national anny) killed most or the rcla1ivc., from his mother" s ,idc, he bruuilly punished them by personally chopping. off lhe headi, of lhc leaders or revolt. Pe1er tht: Great said he ""opened the window to the west,"' while Russia still was nn agrarian coumry. The only three things that kept a common Russian going :II that time were his black bread, his woman and vodka.

Margaret Sanger (Mona Klinger). began her p1ese111ation with a little bit of symbolism. a piece of tnpe covering her 111ou1h. Sunger began a revolution amongst women. birth control. Speaking strongly and confidently. she talked 11hou1 her motht.>r anti I he 18 pregmmcics she went 1hrough in 2'.! years. She ,wore ,he would never struggle the: way her mother ,hd.

After going to college and becoming a nu~e. she ,pent her lite s~ak1ng to women nbou1 their rights. She \ail.I rhey didn"1 have to have 10 or more children and 1hcy didn't have to feel guilty alll>ut wishine for a nn,currioge. Sangc~ wa, able to gc1 millions to gel women the first binh co:n1rol pill. Women no longer hu-d to worry about whc1hcr or not 1hc:y would be able ro feed ,md clothe another child.

Sojourner Truth (Pat John\Oll), n former slave and acuvis1 in the Abolitionist Movement, reflected on her childhood. Truth ,md she wa~ born into a Dutch family as a slave. She spoke only Dutch and was 1radcd five 1imes to English families. She said she was beaien severely becnu~c her "nmstcrs thought she wn, ignoring them. hu1 they didn' I know she co11ldn'1 ,pt!ak their language.

The families kept no rccor<b of thcrr slaves. therefore :.he hull no n:cord of how old sh.: wos Truth ,:iid her birthday wn, the day she became a free wuman. 182 l.

She spokii or 1hc "patchwork of ,car:." inflic1cd by mas1cl" and the Ii me 1ohe ,poke up and wa, accused of being a man. She ~aid her voice wa~ rather low for a woman and wa, mid to lake off her clo1he, 10 prove her gender. Needle,, to i.a) • she didn'1 obey.

F.uch speaker received a strong round of applause for their pre~entation and a, of Thursday, approximatc:ly J,200 people attended the Popcorn Forum.