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Under the Arch September 20, 2004 Volume VI, Number 4
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ROBERT NOVAK TO KICK OFF ROAD TO WHITE HOUSE SYMPOSIUM Nationally-syndicated columnist and CNN pundit Robert D. Novak will deliver a lecture at Gannon University on Thursday, Oct. 7. The lecture, to be held at 7:30 p.m. in room 104 of the Zurn Science Center, is free and open to the public. Novak’s appearance is sponsored by the Gannon University Activities Programming Board (APB) and will serve as the kickoff of a four-part symposium titled Road to the White House 2004: Advocacy and Analysis. Other speakers in the symposium will include Catherine Baker Knoll, Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor; Charlie Cook, editor and publisher of The Cook Political Report; and David Kozak, Ph.D., professor of political science at Gannon University.
More about Robert Novak A native of Joliet, Ill., Novak’s first newspaper jobs were as a reporter for the Joliet Herald-News and the Champaign-Urbana Courier while attending the University of Illinois (1948-1952), where he graduated with a bachelor of arts degree. Following service in the U.S. Army as a lieutenant during the Korean War (1952-1954), Novak joined the staff of the Associated Press in Omaha, Neb. He was transferred to Lincoln, Neb., and then to Indianapolis, Ind., where he covered politics and the legislatures in both states. In 1957, the AP transferred him to Washington, D.C., where he began covering congress, and in 1958 he joined the Washington bureau of the Wall Street Journal as senate correspondent and political reporter. He became the Journal’s chief congressional correspondent in 1961. On May 15, 1963, Novak teamed up with the late Rowland Evans, Jr., then a congressional correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, to write Inside Report, a political column published four times a week. Since 1966, the Chicago Sun Times has been the home newspaper to the column. One of longest-running syndicated columns in the nation, Inside Report became known for its hard reporting. For more than a quarter century, Novak has covered war, revolutions, and international conferences around the globe. On May 15, 1993, Evans retired from the column; Novak, however, continues to write it three times a week. The column is carried by more than 150 newspapers through Creators Syndicate. Novak has interviewed numerous political leaders. His 1978 trip to China included an exclusive interview with Deng Tsiao-Peng that helped open the way for the normalization of relations between the United States and China. His first book was Agony of the GOP: 1964. In collaboration with Evans, he wrote Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power, Nixon in the White House and The Reagan Revolution. In November, 1999, Novak had another book published, Completing the Revolution: A Vision of Victory in 2000. Novak also has served as a Radford Visiting Professor of Journalism at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. His honors include being named, in 2001, as the winner of the National Press Club’s Fourth Estate Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism. The University of Illinois has both named him a distinguished alumnus and awarded him an honorary doctorate, as has Kenyon College. Currently, Novak serves as a commentator for the Cable News Network (CNN), for which he hosts The Novak Zone. He also appears on and serves as co-executive producer of CNN’s political roundtable Capital Gang and regularly co-hosts Crossfire. He is an occasional guest on NBC’s Meet the Press.
OUR EVENTS
CURRENT BIRTHDAYS Mary Beth Belczyk. Mary Jo Geertson. Tammy Weary. Thomas Comstock. Berwyn Moore. Mary Jo Hess. Rebecca Willow. Greg Mello. Edward Rogers. Terrance Hoover. Catherine Gillespie. David Blaetz. Michelle Costello. John Publicover. Corrine Anderson. Carol Perry. Antoine M. Garibaldi. Elisa Konieczko. Patrick Headley. John Onorato. Ron Rugare. Donna Dalton. Thomas Hudson.
THE PRESIDENT'S SCHEDULE Monday, September 20 – CIC Foundation Officers/College Presidents Conversation, New York, N.Y. Tuesday, September 21 – School of Business faculty meeting; Planning Commission meeting; Strategic Planning meeting; United Way de Tocqueville Award ceremony. Wednesday, September 22 – Memorial service for Marjorie Krebs. Thursday-Sunday, September 23-26 – Frederick D. Patterson board meeting and conference, Washington, D.C.
HEARD ON CAMPUS
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