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Author, José Antonio Vargas speaks on campus about
“undocumented” status and the immigration debate</span><br>
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<li>7PM Thursday, Oct. 25th, Lincoln Hall room 170</li>
<li>noon Friday, Oct 26th, University YMCA, Latzer Hall<br>
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<span
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Umland, Program Director, University YMCA</span><br>
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</span><span
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<span
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</b>Friday,<b> </b>October<b> </b>26th at 12:00 noon, the
University YMCA will host Pulitzer Prize winning journalist José
Antonio Vargas to talk about his experiences as an undocumented
immigrant and how debate over immigration<b> </b>policies is
shaping the 2012 election season. </span><span
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<span
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<span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Since<b>
</b>the<b> </b>beginning of his career in journalism eight
years ago, Vargas has written hundreds of stories — including
covering the 2008 presidential campaign for The Washington Post;
profiling Al Gore for Rolling Stone <b>a</b>nd Mark Zuckerberg
for The New Yorker; writing and producing a documentary on the
AIDS epidemic in the nation's capital; and winning a Pulitzer
Prize for helping cover the Virginia Tech massacre.<br>
<br>
A little over a year ago, Vargas wrote a groundbreaking essay in
the New York Times Sunday Magazine revealing his<b> </b>"undocumented
immigrant" status. <b> </b>Since then, he founded Define
American and has worked to facilitate dialogue about the DREAM
Act and immigration issues. </span><br>
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<span
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</b>lectur</span></b><span
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</span></span><b
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the seventh in a semester long series that examines the major
issues<b> </b>of the 2012 election season. All lectures are
free and open to the public. </span><br>
<span
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<span
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will also speak on campus the previous evening at 7PM,
location:<br>
<b>1092 Lincoln Hall (</b></span></b><b
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South Wright Street<b> </b>Urbana, IL<b>)<br>
</b>to discuss Define American, a non-profit organization that
seeks to elevate the conversation around immigration.<br>
<br>
This lecture coincides<b> </b>with the ongoing “<i>Do I Look
Like An American to You?</i>” t-shirt campaign<b> </b>sponsored<b>
</b>by Interfaith in Action, La Colectiva, and Amnesty
International. <br>
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T-shirts will be on sale throughout the month of October<b> </b>at
the University YMCA. For more information, contact Carol at <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:%28217%29%20337-1500"
value="+12173371500" target="_blank">(217) 337-1500</a>. </span><br>
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Read more:</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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</span><span
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