Sex and the Media panel scheduled for Tuesday night The School of Communication, in association with the SOC Graduate Council, will present "An American Forum: Sex and the Media" on Tuesday, Sept. 23 from 7:45 to 9 p.m. in Ward 1.
Panelists include Melissa Caldwell, director of research and publications for the Parents Television Council, David Folkenflik, media critic for The Baltimore Sun, Vicky Rideout, vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation and Rodger Streitmatter, an SOC professor.
The forum will be moderated by Professor Jane Hall.
For more information, contact the SOC at x2074 or visit www.soc.american.edu.
- JOSEPH POPIOLKOWSKI Habitat for Humanity to fundraise at Steak and Egg AU Habitat for Humanity will be holding its first fundraiser of the year on Tuesday from 11:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. at Steak and Egg. Part of the proceeds from purchases will go to their student-run project, The House That AU Built II.
"We're really looking forward to this event," said AU Habitat for Humanity President Laura Carollo. "It's something that students will definitely enjoy and it's for a really great cause."
The organization will also be promoting the American Classic 5K Run on Oct. 18, where all proceeds will be donated to the cause.
Currently, $27,500 has been raised out of $85,000 needed to complete the second house, which had its groundbreaking last semester, Carollo said. Construction for the new house will soon start this fall, she said.
Transportation from Steak and Egg to AU will also be available at certain times throughout the night.
- STOKELY BAKSH Role of press and the military discussed Saturday in Ward A discussion regarding the military and the press, sponsored by the AU chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, was in Ward 102 on Saturday.
Keynote speakers included Mark Mazzetti, senior editor of U.S. News and World Report, and Rear Adm. T. L. McCreary, chief of Navy Information.
Embedding, the act of putting journalists with military forces, was the highlighted topic of the event. This upfront technique of journalism has given the media and its audience a larger picture of what is happening in Iraq. It has allowed reporters to have a "purer form of the war."
One thing that McCreary looked at, when going to Iraq, was the potential for disinformation and the possibility of "bad stories." For McCreary, "moments of honesty are the best" and his embedment in Iraq has given him a unique and unforgettable professional experience, he said.
This type of reporting can cause dilemmas between reporting what is seen and reporting what can really happen in war, according to Mazzetti. As Marines accidentally killed a woman and her children as they sat in their car, it comes down to exactly that for Mazzetti.
Embedment for McCreary in Afghanistan was a much different experience, a relatively untested concept making it difficult to obtain information. Yet embedment for him is still a huge step forward. Placing reporters with soldiers provided a different view of war tactics that has been unseen in other wars, including the Gulf War.
- JENNIFER TYRE
