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ADP to host candidate debates on South Bend and Elkhart campuses this fall. MARK YOUR CALENDARS for the following candidate debates!
Bring your friends and neighbors. Become an INFORMED voter!
St. Joseph County Council District H
Deborah Fleming and Robert McCahill
Wednesday, September 22, 6:00-7:30 DW 1001
St. Joseph County Prosecutor
Scott Duerring and Michael Dvorak
Wednesday, October 13, 6:00-7:30 DW 1001
St. Joseph County Sheriff
Jim Fox and Mike Grzegorek
Wednesday, October 20, 6:00-7:30 DW 1001
2nd Congressional District
Joe Donnelly and Jackie Walorski
Sunday, October (date pending), 6:00-7:30
Broadcast Live at the WNIT Studios!
Elkhart County Sheriff
Larry Owens and Brad Rogers
Saturday, October 23, 2:00-3:30
IUSB Elkhart Campus,125 E. Franklin Street
All debates are co-sponsored by the American Democracy Project
and Political Science Club of IU South Bend in cooperation with the
League of Women Voters of the South Bend Area and WNIT-TV.
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Elizabeth A. Bennion, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Campus Director, American Democracy Project
Faculty Advisor, Political Science Club
Indiana University South Bend
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Our language, our thought. In "Lost in Translation," Stanford professor Lera Boroditsky talks about the difference one's choice of language makes in how we see the world. (WSJ, 7/24/2010) And the Modern Language Association offers two downloadable brochures about the benefits of learning a second language.
Liberal arts and the job interview. In "Hearing the Right Notes From a Job Candidate," employer Carl Diehl explains the difference between applicants who can tell you what they've learned and those who can apply things they've learned to new problems and new circumstances even during the course of an interview. The line Diehl draws coincides precisely, one might say, with the line between students who approach their education passively and those who are active learners asking their own questions along the way. Also, the the line between professors who ask for knowledge to be recapped for them on tests and those who create paper assignments and projects that call for fresh inquiry. (NY Times, 7/24/10)
Reich says public education is more important than Wall Street. Robert Reich says that public education is more important than Wall Street and argues for a bailout package for public education. He argues: "All over America right now, public education is in crisis. Teachers are being fired as next year’s school budgets shrink. Next fall’s classrooms will be far more crowded. Some districts are going to four-day weeks. And the nation’s public universities are in deep trouble." To find out what he recommends, read the story and see the video here.
IU South Bend to host Equal Pay Day discussion. Indiana women earn 69 cents for every dollar Indiana men earn.
Want to know why? Join our discussion!
Equal Pay Day Table Talk
Tuesday, April 20th, 4:30-6:00 at SAC 225.
The pay gap has not closed in the last decade. Why not?
What can we do to close this gap?
Notre Dame professor/priest argues the story of humanity is an immigration story. I just returned from a thought-provoking (im)migration lecture by Dr./Prof./Fr. Daniel G. Groody entitled Border of Death: Valley of Life. Fr. Groody offered a fascinating analysis, talking about immigration on the foundational, conceptual, and theological/spiritual levels. Accordingly he asked us to consider: (1) Who (im)migrates? When? Where? Why?, (2) What are the legal, economic, and political repercussions for nations and immigrants? and (3) How do we understand ourselves as human beings and our relationship to others and to God.
Framing the human story, Abrahamic religions, and the gospels as migration stories, Groody argued that migration is in our DNA and our spirits. He identified six groups and discussed their difference perspectives on immigration: (1) vigilantes, (2) department of homeland security/i.c.e., (3) political leaders, (4) corporations, (5) church leaders, and (6) human rights advocates.
Tragecy in the coal mines. Sadly, this 2006 Michiana Chronicles essay is timely again.
Sheriff candidates draw over 130 people to IUSB campus. Candidate forums featuring two Republican and five Democratic candidates drew more than 130 community members interested in the future of the Sheriff's Department of St. Joseph County. American Democracy Project director, Elizabeth Bennion, discusses the crowded field of candidates and the efforts of IUSB to educate voters in this WSBT follow-up interview.
ADP director discusses local primary elections. Check out this WSBT interview with IU South Bend's campus director of the American Democracy Project. In this interview, Professor Bennion discusses voter interest in local primaries and highlights the importance of the primary candidate forums hosted on our campus.
Campus voter registration drive a success. We had yet another successful voter registration drive on the Indiana University South Bend Campus! Last week, the Political Science Club registered 44 voters. Many of the registrants I spoke to admitted that had it not been for the convenience of the voter registration drive right on campus, it was unlikely they would have taken the time to register at all; it made me feel great to know we were making that kind of difference right on campus.
The deadline to register for the May 4th primaries has passed, but if you would like to register for the November general election, contact me at for information or visit http://www.indianavoters.com.
Written by Angela Johnson, Campus Intern, American Democracy Project
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