10 I THURSDAY, OCT. 14, 2010
WPSU to air discussion on AIDS, Africa
By Karina Yiicel
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Patty Satalia started her inter
view with Stephen Lewis by men
tioning that more than 5,000 peo
ple die of AIDS each day.
Satalia and Lewis's discussion
of the ongoing struggle in Africa
with AIDS, poverty and mistreat
ment of women was recorded for
"Conversations From Penn
State," a show produced by
WPSU-TV set to air today.
WPSU producer Lindsey
Whissel said Lewis, co-founder
and co-director of AIDS-Free
World, has worked for many years
in developing countries, as well as
with the United Nations.
Lewis has been visiting and
working in Africa since the late
Notable author falls
short among finalists
By Hillel Italie
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NEW YORK It's the Great
American Snub.
Jonathan Franzen's
"Freedom," the year's most high
ly praised and talked about liter
ary novel, was not among the fic
tion finalists announced
Wednesday for the National Book
Awards.
Nine years ago, Franzen won
for "The Corrections" and his lat
est book was a sensation even
before its release, the subject of a
Time magazine cover story and
rave reviews and so in demand
that President Obama obtained
an early copy. Oprah• Winfrey
picked "Freedom" for her book
club, even though Franzen's
ambivalence in 2001 over her
choosing "The Corrections" had
led her to cancel his appearance
on her show.
Nominees on Wednesday
included Peter Carey, whose
"Parrot and Olivier in America"
was a runner-up for the Man
Booker Prize, and such well
regarded authors as Nicole
Krauss ("Great House") and
Lionel Shriver ("So Much for
If you watch
What "Conversations From
Perm State: AIDS-Free World"
Whew 9 tonight
Whore: WPSIJ-TV
19505. Back then, he said, the con
tinent was filled with optimism.
music and hope as many coun
tries were earning independence.
Lewis described Africa today as
a place where people are still
musical, but are now decimated
by disease.
HTV and AIDS has taken a -ter
rible toll" on the psyche of Africa's
people and economy, among other
Thar). The book awards also wel
comed a rock star, Patti Smith, a
nonfiction contender for "Just
Kids," a memoir about her friend
ship with photographer Robert
Mapplethorpe; and an attorney
poetry finalist Monica Youn
("Ignatn, whose day job is with
the Brennan Center for Justice in
New York.
Two Beijing-based journalists
for the Los Angeles Times.
Barbara Demick ("Nothing to
Envy") and Megan K. Stack
("Every Man in This Village"),
were nonfiction contenders, while
previous nominees Rita Williams-
Garcia ("One Crazy Summer")
and Walter Dean Myers
("Lockdown") were finalists for
young people's literature.
Winners, each of whom receive
$lO,OOO, will be announced at a
ceremony Nov. 17, hosted by
humorist Andy Borowitz.
Franzen's publicist, Jeff Seroy
at Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
declined comment.
His book wasn't the only
notable work not selected. Among
the non-nominees were such nov
els as Karl Marlantes'
"Matterhorn" and Torn
Rachman's "The
areas of life, Lewis said.
Lewis's major concern is not
just the AIDS epidemic in Africa,
but also the Group of Eight's (G 8)
goals for the millennium.
The G 8 countries including
the United States, United
Kingdom and China set millen
nium goals that were supposed to
be achieved by 2015, Whissel said.
These goals were to cut global
poverty and hunger in half and to
help with HIV and AIDS treat
ment, said Satalia, the host of
"Conversations from Penn State."
It's unlikely these goals will be
met in time, Satalia said, as few
countries are contributing to the
goals' successes
In essence [Lewis will talk
about; who is making progress
and,v by', , uch low progress has
Novelist Jonathan Franzen was
not a National Book Award finalist
despite the popularity of his highly
praised book Freedom."
Impertectionists, - Ron
Chernow's 800-page biography of
Geor ? - .‘ Washington and Edmund
Morris . third and final book on
Theodore Roosevelt.
- Obviously 'Freedom' is the big
book of the year, but the question
is the National Book Awards
arc supposed to honor. - said
Harold Augenbraum. exeuctive
director of the National Book
Foundation, a nonprofit organiza
tion that presents the awards.
- We toil the judges just to look at
the hooks and that outside chatter
is not important.-
been made," Whissel said.
"[Lewis talks about] industrial
ized countries and what role they
play in the developing world...
Another issue Lewis and Satalia
focus on during their conversation
is women in Africa. Nearly 60 per
cent of those infected with HIV in
Africa are women, and of those
women, 70 to 80 percent are
between 15 and 24, Lewis said.
"It drives you crazy that the
world will not respond adequately
to this particular dilemma. - Lewis
said.
Some students said spreadinu.
the word in the United States
important because HIV d 0 ,, ,: it
just affect Africa.
Aida Mekonnen. president
student organization Bringinci
Awareness and Recovery 1 , ; tit
Keira Knightley due
at film festival opener
By Jill Lawless
ASSOCIATED PRESS VvR
LONDON The London Film
Festival opens Wednesday with
the European premiere of
"Never Let Me Go," a mo - , h
a hauntingly off-Iditer sett n 2. and
a universal emotional punch.
Stars Keira Knightie . %
Mulligan and Andre \k, ;
were due to walk the red c,u - pet
in Leicester Square betorc
gala evening screening that kick:
off the two-week extravaga n c at
300 movies from 67 count
Several of the big titles Ilaye
already made a splash at wile' .
festivals. They include Darren
Aronofsky's ballet thriller B:
Swan," starring Natalie Port roil n.
and "The King's Speech." with
Colin Firth playing Britain's
George VI as he struggles: io
overcome a severe stutter.
Naomie Harris. Helena Bonham
Carter and Julianne it IT•ore were
among the stars eNpecied to
make appearances at tia : festival.
"Never Let Me Go' is an adap
tation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker
Prize-nominated novel about
three boarding school friends
who discover complicated feel-
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Emergency, said people are so
used to hearing about HTV that
they have grown numb to it.
In 2002, about 50,000 people
were receiving medicine to fight
fin - AIDS and now about three
million people are getting access
to the drugs they need, she added.
Change is always possible. To
make it happen, HIV/AIDS needs
more people behind the cause,"
Meko en (sophomore-econom
ics) said. People need to know
that they can do things [to help]."
- Conversations From Penn
State: AIDS-Free World," pre
mieres on WPSU at 9 tonight. It is
also available online and will pre
miere on the Big Ten Network at
0000 Monday, Oct. 25.
) , 1 reporter: kzysols@psu.edu
11:1S tor one another - and the
(lark Late that awaits them
beyond the school grounds.
irs set in a gentle English
aystopia, beautifully rendered by
director Mark Romanek ("One
flour Photo - The actors said
they were struck by the emotion
al „vet' of the tale. Mulligan
it a love story about peo
pit- ho want very simple things
life and can't get them."
I :is very rare that you find a
script that is so full of what it is to
he alive -- to be human and the
tr uggles that we collectively go
through," Garfield told reporters
before the premiere. "There are
wrribic scripts, there are good
seriph.. and then there are
"Al* s and stories like this one."
ishiguro said the story is about
n.;,itality and "how people cope
with their fate." but isn't meant to
be bleak.
I think this story was trying to
put a p!)sitive light on human
natur . , - he said. To try and say
c . :)vincingly as possible that
v. - ;e:1 people feel they are
trLlpped and their time is running
ow. the things that become
impoitant are things like friend
ship and 10ve...