The IU South Bend version of the ADP is linked to another campus-wide project, “One Book, One Campus.” The topic for the year will be media and democracy. It is sponsored by the Franklin D. Schurz Library and ADP.

One Book, One Campus encourages students, faculty and staff to read the same book and participate in discussions centered on “War is a Force That Give Us Meaning” by Chris Hedges. Hedges presents a news correspondent’s view of war.

Hedges was a foreign correspondent for 15 years covering El Salvador, Kosovo and the Persian Gulf. He worked at the Dallas Morning News, the Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. He joined the staff of the New York Times in 1990 and was a member of the Times staff to win a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for coverage of global terrorism.

As part of ADP, the National Public Radio affiliate WVPE 88.1 FM and IU South Bend have teamed up with IU South Bend for a series of commentaries on the election and civic duty. The series opened on Sept. 7 with a discussion between Professor Elizabeth Bennion, campus director of ADP, and Beth Graham, WVPE news director.

The series will continue at 7:30 a.m., 12:30 and 4:30 p.m. each Tuesday through the election. Graham said she hopes that the commentaries will include pieces from students and community members as well as faculty.

The first campus event in the series will be a lunch time discussion at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 14, in IU South Bend’s cafeteria. It will focus on the ways that students, faculty and staff can be involved in the yearlong ADP and One Book, One Campus programs.

Other lunch discussions include: Military Duty as Civic Duty – Perspectives of Student Veterans, Tuesday, Sept.28; Veterans’ Perspectives on Military Service and War as a Force, Wednesday, Oct. 6; Moving From Tragedy to Dialogue and Social Action – A Conversation with Beth Loffreda (author of “Losing Matt Shepard”), Monday, Oct. 11; Informed Voting as a Civic Duty – Candidates and Issues of the 2004 Election, Wednesday, Oct. 20; Angry, Bored, Confused: Why Don’t Students Participate in Politics, Tuesday, Nov. 2; Global Citizenship – Looking Beyond Our Borders, Wednesday, Nov. 17; Making Our Alma Mater Proud – IUSB Alumni Making a Difference, Tuesday, Nov. 30.

One Book/One Campus has invited Fred Dodd, assistant managing editor/production of the South Bend Tribune, to speak at 7 p.m. Oct. 19, at the Schurz Library fifth floor atrium. Dodd was an embedded reporter in Iraq at the beginning of the war with the 766th Transportation Battalion and the 428th Military Police Company. Dodd will share his opinions on Hedges’ book. Other events will be scheduled later in the semester and next spring.

The campus events are free and open to the public.

For further information visit www.iusb.edu/~sbadp and www.iusb.edu/~libg/onebook

Other events scheduled:

3:30-5 p.m. Sept. 27, Room 221, Student Activities Center; report on research trip to South Africa with Social Action Project, “Change Is More Than a Theory”

6 p.m. Sept. 27, Rooms 223-225, Student Activities Center; speaker Judy Auerbach, vice president of public policy for the American Foundation for AIDS Research, “The Feminization of AIDS”

10 a.m. Sept. 28, Room 3260, Wiekamp Hall; Auerbach will speak on “Politics, Ideology and Science.”

11:30 a.m. Sept. 28, cafeteria; military duty as civic duty

11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 29, Associates Building, speaker Arun Gandhi

5:30 to 7 p.m. Oct. 1, Administration Building student lounge; panel discussion on Hispanic Voices.

11:30 a.m. Oct. 6, cafeteria; veterans’ perspective on service and war

11:30 a.m. Oct. 11, cafeteria; tragedy, dialogue and social action with Beth Loffreda (author of “Losing Matt Shepard”)

7 p.m., Oct. 19, library atrium; Fred Dodd

11:30 a.m. Oct. 20, cafeteria; informed voting

11:30 a.m. Nov. 2, cafeteria; student participation in politics

11:30 a.m. Nov. 17, cafeteria; global citizenship

11:30 a.m. Nov. 30, cafeteria; alumni involvement