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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