Reporter Needs Info For Tomorrow's Story

[truedelphi]

truedelphi (62 posts) Wed Feb-22-06 07:38 PM
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Did Any Of You Chicagoan DU'ers Attend St Xavier's Cindy Sheehan event
Hi Everyone-

I am about to do a story on the Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan, especially
regarding her presentation last week in Chicago at Saint Xavier's University
in the Evergreen Park area.

My story has a deadline of late Thursday Feb 24th. So if you or anyone close to
you heard about the event, and especially if you attended, please let me know.

The Student Affairs President at the University, Tina Patterson, put the event
together. I heard that there were "dozens of protesters." I also heard that
there were two hundred protesters.

Now on just about every MidWest right-wing blog out there, there is a total
screamin' memie disinformation campaign. Not only are the remarks about Cindy ugly
(use of the B word that rhymes with witch, etc) but the occassional anti-Catholic
remark as well.

Saint Xavier's is one of many typical Catholic Universities. Not especially liberal
or left leaning. But there is a war on, and the typical student there is going to be
affected most by all aspects of that war, especially in terms of the budget. And I
imagine a student or two has family or friends in the Service.

I am very curious as to how many supporters of Cindy did show up. And how wide spread
the publicity was. Did any of you in Chicago even know about it?

So if you have comments now is the time.

Thanks

Carol Dagg Sterritt

Staff Reporter for The Coastal Post
www.coastalpost.com

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:kick: Did you post in the Illinois forum and in GD?