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Source: Donna Schenck-Hamlin, 785-532-7454, donnash@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Donna Ekart, 785-532-7452, dfe@k-state.edu

Thursday, August 21, 2008

K-STATE'S MOVIES ON THE GRASS SERIES OPENS THE FALL SEMESTER

Manhattan -- Kansas State University will again convert Coffman Commons, the grassy slope south of Hale Library, into a free outdoor movie theater with the fourth annual Movies on the Grass series.

Students and the public are invited to bring their lawn chairs Sunday evenings Aug. 24 and Sept. 7, 14 and 21 and enjoy free films on contemporary issues, all shown on a 26-foot wide outdoor screen. Each evening starts with raffle prizes, music and refreshments, followed by the film showing around 8 p.m. or sundown, and moderated public discussions for those who wish to remain at the end. The rain location will be Foerster Auditorium in 63 Seaton Hall.

This year's films deal with elections, peacemaking, agriculture and global trade. Many campus and community organizations have come together to select the films, and provide information tables to stimulate further conversations and activities.

The films include:

"Hacking Democracy," Aug. 24. The film looks at the vulnerability of computers, which count approximately 80 percent of votes cast in local, state and federal elections, and suggests that if the votes aren't safe, the U.S. democracy isn't safe either.

"I Know I'm Not Alone," Sept. 7. Michael Franti, a noted musician and human rights worker, travels to Iraq, Palestine and Israel to explore the human cost of war with a group of friends, some video cameras and his guitar.

"King Corn," Sept. 14. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, nitrogen fertilizers and powerful herbicides, two college graduates plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. Their findings raise questions about how we eat and farm.

"Darwin's Nightmare," Sept. 21. In the 1960s the Nile perch was introduced into Lake Victoria in Africa. Having extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species, it is now exported around the world. The film examines the international trade in fish and weapons that has transformed the lives of many people living on Lake Victoria.

Sponsors of the Movies on the Grass series include K-State's Campaign for Nonviolence, Crossroads Ecumenical Christian Ministry, Dow Chemical Multicultural Resource Center, Feed Science Club, Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy, K-State Libraries, K-State office of the provost, Kansas Agricultural Mediation Service, leadership studies and programs, Students for Environmental Action and Women's Center, as well as the League of Women Voters, Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice, Susan and Jack Oviatt, and UFM Community Learning Center.

Trailers to the films can be viewed at http://www.k-state.edu/moviesonthegrass/