Daughter who has paranoid schizophrenia, and she was finally diagnosed with that when she was arnd 22. Weve gone thtough trial after trial, and j jt all kinds of tribulationonand whatnot. Then i started teaching, because i felt like there just werent enough people educated about Mental Health. I evolved into Teaching Mental Health first aid, which is a first aid what it says. Just like cpr and whatnot, this is for people who would like to know what to do if they see someone in a crisis, or someone having problems. Leon leslie, youre also a member of our community who has been affected by Mental Health challenges. Leslie mmhmm. Leon can you tell us a little bit about what brings you to us today . Leslie sure. I am a physical therapist, but over the past 10 years our son has been ill. He has now had a mental into a schizoeffective disorder, which is a combition of schizophreniand bipolar disorder. Over the course of the past 8 years, especially, hes been in and out of the hospital about
Panelist is micah hawkerboehnke who is a senior at Cornell College here in cedar rapids. Micah thank you for being with us. Micah thank you for having me. Craig our third panelist is dr. Carin crain the dean of students at the university of iowa law school. Carin thank you for joining us. Carin thank you for inviting me. Craig i mentioned that our conversation today will be about cheating in higher education. The impetus for this show came from a class i taught last year, unfortunately an ethics class, in which three of the students that i had failed because of plagiarism. I also suspected several other students of buying papers to turn in as their own work, i couldnt prove that so they passed the class. But i had never before seen in such cheating that goes on in our education. Lesley id like to start with you, i understand your dissertation was about student cheating in higher education. Leslie yes. Craig can you give us a brief summary of that . Leslie sure. My dissertation, basical
Americans attitudes towards restrictions on guns compared to those in industrialized countries. We are going to deal specifically here with gun violence in cedar rapids, iowa. We have my three distinguished panelists today. To my immediate left we have stacey walker, community activist. Good morning. Stacey walker morning. Karl cassell to his immediate left we have cedar rapids chief of police, wayne jerman. Good morning. Chief jerman good morning karl. Karl cassell on the end we have susie weinacht, city council member. Good morning. Susie weinacht good morning karl. Karl cassell thank you for joining us today. First question, mainly probably for you, chief jerman, since youve been in Law Enforcement for a good number of years, has there been a change in gun violence in the last twenty years and is it more pervasive or not, and if so why would you say it has . Chief jerman well, certainly in the last twenty years there has been an increase but specifically the last two years weve seen
Others fear a slippery slope that would eventually lead us to value some lives more than others. Should iowa pass an aid ii dying law . Do we have an absolute right over our own lives . Should physicians help us to die on our own terms . Or do we have a moral obligation to accept our lives a. D our deathson terms other than our own will . . Have a greattanel on today to discuss these issues. To my left is becky benson, the director of the university of iowa pediatric Palliative Care program. Thanks so much for being on, becky. Becky benson thank you. ScOtt Samuelson Francis Degnin, a professor of ilosophy at university of northern iowa. Thanks for being on francis. Francis degnin thank you. ScOtt Samuelson at the end, linda livingston, a pastor at ascension lutheran church, linda, thank you for being on. Linda livingsto its good to be here. ScOtt Samuelson okay, well becky, lets just sttt off with the big have a law that allows mentally competent, terminally ill adults to voluntarily r