German diplomat to field questions

By Gus Bode

A German diplomat will try to help SIUC students understand the newly united Germany by answering questions this afternoon in an open forum, sponsors of the speech say.

Deputy Consul General Christoph Sander, from the German Consulate in Chicago, will speak free of charge at 1 p.m. in the Illinois Room of the Student Center. The forum will be a question and answer session, Scott Hays, a political science assistant professor said.

We will structure the forum from comments we get from the audience, Hays said. We have hosted Russians in this sort of forum, and the audience has always asked good questions.

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Hays said the audience should bring questions they want to ask Sander to the forum.

Jim Hides, president of Sophists, a student political society that is sponsoring the event, said the German consulate Sander belongs to is a branch of the German Embassy.

Sander is a senior official of the German government, and since there is a lot going on in Germany right now we are glad he is here, Hides said. If anyone should know what is going on inside Germany’s government he should.

Hides said Sander would like to focus the forum on issues related to Germany’s fifth anniversary of reunification to be discussed but other topics are also welcome to be discussed. The anniversary was Oct. 4.

Hides said Sander will also visit Murphysboro High School today.

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