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(From WTAMU): Four WT students are actively finding ways to turn the temperature down in potentially contentious conversations through their
Hear Me Out campaign, part of the 2021 Public Relations Student Society of America Bateman Competition. WT’s team presentation is about 20 minutes long and includes a short experience piece when there is time for it. They conclude with a short survey.
The Bateman Competition is PRSSA (Public Relations Student Society of America) ’s national case study competition where students create and implement a full public relations campaign. This year, the goal is to help the Public Relations Society of America to reverse the corrosion of civility in American life and encourage respectful conversations in public discourse in all corners of society.
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My mother almost died on a snowy New Hampshire road on Presidents’ Day 1986.
The car my father was driving swerved on to the other side of the road. A car with a snowplow on the front crashed into Mom’s side. Her seatbelt saved her life, but she broke a collarbone, multiple ribs and lost lots of blood. The only reason she was given a 1% chance of survival was that local paramedics were already out on the road, heard the accident and responded instantly.
Then a junior at Stanford University, I flew back to Boston from California after hearing the news and drove to the hospital. Its antiseptic smell enveloped me as I walked down the white tiled hallways to Mom’s room in an intensive care unit.
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Researchers say many rank and file Democratic and Republican voters may be closer to common ground on political issues than their elected representatives are.
Keith Allred heads the University of Arizona’s National Institute for Civil Discourse in Washington. He notes the political divide looks different outside the Beltway.
“In fact the research shows the average Republican and the average Democrat is half as far apart on the issues as they think they are, he said.
Allred believes the country is at a turning point regarding civility. He says last month’s insurrection and Presidential inauguration along with next week’s Trump impeachment trial has created a tear in the national discourse which will take a long time to repair. He adds the pandemic has robbed the country of common cultural events that typically serve to unify people.
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