FORMER SENATOR PAUL SIMON TO APPEAR
AT DANA HOMECOMING, OCT. 12
Education and fiscal responsibility
advocate
to sign copies of his latest books
Former United States Senator Paul Simon will hold
a book signing at 1 p.m. on Oct. 12 and the E.C. Hunt Campus Center
on Dana College’s campus in Blair, Neb. The event is part
of Dana’s Homecoming celebration, to be held Oct. 10-12.
In his time as Illinois’s senior senator, Simon
was a leading voice for supporting educational systems, fiscal responsibility
and limiting violence on television. Enacted legislation that he
wrote includes the National Literacy Act, the School-to-Work Opportunities
Act, the Job Training Partnership Act amendments and the 1994 reauthorization
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. He was the leading
Senate champion of the direct college loan program and chief Democratic
sponsor of the balanced budget amendment.
Before his national career began, Simon attended Dana
College and then became the nation’s youngest editor-publisher
when he joined the Troy Tribune in Troy, Ill. He used his forum
to expose syndicate gambling connections and at age 22 was called
as a key witness to testify before the U.S. Senate’s Crime
Investigating Committee. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
in 1974 and served until he upset three-term incumbent Charles Percy
to win election to the U.S. Senate. Simon served in the Senate until
his retirement in 1997, even while seeking the Democratic nomination
for president in 1988.
Simon is now a professor at Southern Illinois University,
where he teaches classes in political science, history and journalism.
He is also founder and director of the Public Policy Institute at
SIU’s Carbondale, Ill., campus. Simon holds more than 55 honorary
degrees and has written 21 books. At the Dana event, he will be
signing his two latest books, Our Culture of Pandering from SIU
Press and Healing American Values and Vision from Orbis Books.
The event is free and open to the general public.
Dana College is a private, liberal arts institution
that currently enrolls approximately 600 students. The campus is
located on 150 acres overlooking the Missouri River Valley in Blair,
Neb. Dana grants bachelor’s degrees in more than 35 liberal
arts, business, education and pre-professional programs, with an
emphasis on personalized teaching from experienced and dedicated
faculty. Dana is a college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America, and its athletic teams compete in the Great Plains Athletic
Conference.
More information on Dana College can be found at www.dana.edu.
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For more information contact: Sarah Cavanah
Communications Coordinator
Dana College
(402) 426-7216
scavanah@fs1.dana.edu
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