Slave Trade Alive and Well Anti- Slave Labor “Not for Sale” Campaign Educates Students on Impact of Purchases Patrick Ellrich Hands
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TUESDAY The www.ksusentinel.com Feb. 17, 2009 VOLUME 44 ISSUE 19 ENTINEL OF KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY SS SERVING SINCE 1966 Slave trade alive and well Anti- slave labor “Not for Sale” campaign educates students on impact of purchases PATRICK ELLRICH hands. STAFF WRITER “It’s a no-brainer that everyone should be free to work,” he said. David Batstone, a leader in “But unfortunately, as I began to re- the fight against human traffick- search supply chains and study how ing and child slavery, visited KSU products wind up on our shelves, I last Wednesday night to speak to realized that this is not a foregone students about the business side conclusion.” of ending global slave trade and Examples were used to explain to launch a new organization, how many of the companies and Free2Work. everyday products the students use Batstone is known as “The are directly linked to child slavery: Instigator” for a campaign called cotton, chocolate, tires and cars. “Not for Sale,” which is a “cam- “If you drove a car here today paign of individuals, musicians, that is a Ford or Toyota and has artists, businesses… and schools, Firestone tires, I would like to con- united to stop the trade of the 27 gratulate you because you have a million people who are enslaved fully-made slave car,” Batstone today,” according to its Web site, said, surely shocking some mem- www.notforsalecampaign.org. bers of the audience. “I am thrilled to be at KSU today “Free2Work came out of a way to launch Free2Work,” Batstone to invite companies to be the best said as he unveiled his brand-new of what they could be and be a Web site to an audience of students pioneer… in Free2Work,” said in the Burruss Building. “This is Batstone. the first time Free2Work is live and Free2Work’s Web site, www. functioning.” free2work.org, invites individuals Batstone told students that the con- to check companies to see if they cept of Free2Work is a very simple are Free2Work organizations and to one: “It’s about creating the possi- report companies who use slavery. bilities of work and gaining access The Web site also invites companies to capital.” to sign up and become a Free2Work As Batstone paced back and forth advocate. on the stage, he asked students, “We are going to make this “Who here is in favor of slavery?” spread like wildfire,” said Batstone. Patrick Ellrich | The Sentinel David Batstone, “The Instigator” of the anti-slavery “Not for Sale” campaign, speaks to students in the Burruss Building on Batstone expected that no one See SLAVERY, page 2 Feb. 11. Batstone’s new Web site, Free2Work, will help individuals report companies that use slavery in their production. in the audience would raise their New doctorate $1.5 million awarded to establish offered in Center for Sustainable Journalism nursing science PATRICK ELLRICH the community finds enough value in free revealing in a book by MIT professor STAFF WRITER what the journalist is reporting. Eric Von Hippel and it means to “give your HeATHER COOK shortage,” said Nelms. “By With community-based journalism, the ideas away, and once you put it out there STAFF WRITER educating more nursing fac- On Feb. 7 at SoCon 09, a social media community knows more than the journal- and start explaining it, people will come to ulty, more practicing nurses conference at KSU, President Papp an- ist and it will promote a “much richer you because you know more,” said Witt. A new program leading to can be educated to meet nounced the donation of $1.5 million by kind of information than you would have The Center for Sustainable Journalism a doctorate in nursing sci- the healthcare needs of the the Harnisch Foundation for the develop- if the journalist was writing individually,” will “put KSU on the map,” according to ence has recently been added people in their care.” ment of the new Center for Sustainable said Witt. Wassmuth, and Witt agrees. to the already existing busi- The program is the only Journalism. Witt said that community-based journal- “There is a lot of exposure and top uni- ness and education programs one in Georgia, which may Leonard Witt, the Robert D. Fowler ism is not taking a digital newspaper and versities around the country are all aware of at KSU. draw more attention to KSU. Distinguished Chair in Communication throwing it on an electronic doorstep. what we are doing,” said Witt. The doctorate will begin The new doctorate will and eminent scholar at KSU, will be the “We want people to get actively in- Both also agree that with the new center, accepting people as early also bring more nursing edu- executive director for the center. volved,” said Witt. KSU will become more appealing for pro- as Fall 2009, and students cators, which means there The purpose of the center is to develop One concern about this new type of spective students interested in studying have already begun to fill out will be more nursing stu- new ways to distribute the news by an journalism is ensuring that the journalist journalism and citizen media at the univer- forms. dents. idea Witt calls “community-based jour- remains objective and Witt wants to make sity. “The new doctorate will “Producing more nursing nalism.” sure the journalist is not pushed around by Although the center is still in its devel- allow the WSON to educate educators will allow nursing “Reinventing journalism is the key,” the community to maintain “high-quality, opmental stages, KSU plans to acquire its nursing educators, nursing education programs to admit said Birgit Wassmuth, chair of the depart- ethically-sound journalism.” first hires in May. researchers and nursing ex- more nursing students who ment of communication at KSU. “We Witt said communities must under- “Space is tight, but we hope the center perts in health policy related will graduate and become still want the same principles of print stand that the journalist is not a public will be located in the Social Sciences to health disparities,” said practicing nurses or who will journalism; we just want them in a differ- relations person and made clear that “If Building,” Wassmuth said. Tommie Nelms, professor of further the nursing educa- ent format.” people want a public relations person, There have been talks about internal nursing. “With these doctor- tion they already have,” said Witt claimed that his idea (at the time they should go somewhere else and hire remodeling so it is possible there will be a ally-prepared nurses KSU Nelms. called “representative journalism”) was one.” physical location soon. will be able to educate more The new doctorate is a part first recognized when he was blogging “We will report the good, the bad and The $1.5 million gift will be dispersed to nurses for the future and de- of KSU’s Wellstar School of about it on his Web site, www.pjnet.org. the ugly. We, at some point, will make the the university over a five-year period with liver better healthcare to vul- Nursing (WSON). The nurs- “One day I got a comment on one of community mad,” said Witt. the bulk of the money at the beginning, nerable populations.” ing program started at KSU my blog posts from Ruth Ann Harnisch Witt and KSU will be collaborating with then smaller increments, with the goal of The Board of Regents ap- in 1968 as an associate’s saying, ‘let’s make it happen;’ she helped multiple universities around the country the center being self-sustaining five years proved the new program on degree. It became a bacca- underwrite our first project in Northfield, such as Baruch College in New York, the from now. Tuesday, Feb. 10. laureate degree in 1985, with Minn. and gave $61,000 to make that Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard and the “Since 1988, The Harnisch Foundation “The doctoral program at the master of science in nurs- happen,” said Witt. University of Missouri’s school of journal- has been a catalyst for sustainable social KSU was approved because ing following ten years later. According to Witt, a journalist is being ism. change, funding and implementing innova- the Board of Regents and The program stays full due to paid to work the Northfield, Minn. com- One of the reasons Witt went public with tion in the fields of philanthropy, coaching others realize that the ongo- a demand for nurses. munity to try out the idea, and the ulti- community-based journalism is an idea and journalism,” according to the founda- ing shortage of nurses is due “Nursing is a wonder- mate goal of the project is to find out if called “free revealing.” He learned about tion’s Web site, www.thehf.org. primarily to a nursing faculty See NURSING, page 2 Weekly weather Around campus What: Remix Dance Squad’s Living the What: Georgia Youth Symphony Life mini showcase Orchestra performance In this issue When: Wed. Feb. 18, 7:45 p.m. When: Sun. 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