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Something as sweeping as health care reform, we’re being told, should have bipartisan support. The creation of the interstate highway system did. And the Civil Rights Act. Ditto the Social Security Act of 1935.
It doesn’t pay to be reclusive when you’re trying to build up a small university on the wind-blown Kansas prairie. And so, once a year, Edward H. Hammond hits the road. The president of Fort Hays State University visits journalists, alumni and just about anyone who will take time to listen to his story.
News, they told us in college journalism class, is whatever happens within a two-mile radius of your home. Or, better yet, within two miles of your editor’s home. I’m not sure that holds true anymore, now that news is whatever is on one’s Facebook page, or cable channel, or Twitter updates.
