UNF Turns 35
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October is Founder's Month and the University of North Florida will be celebrating its 35th
anniversary Oct. 2. Events throughout the month will celebrate the people who made UNF into what it is today and explore its varied past and evolving future.
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Foreign tales
Pulitzer-winning journalist recounts jobs, adventures abroad
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John Burns (middle) has served as a New York Times foreign correspondent for the past 30 years in places like Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. |
The longest-serving foreign correspondent in the history of The New York Times spoke Sept. 25 at the University of North Florida to journalism students about his career and the lessons he's learned about reporting and humanity.
John Burns, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, said he's learned a lot of life lessons over the past 30 years as a foreign correspondent in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He said among the most important things he's picked up along the way is the value of history to reporting current events.
"We have weighted - very heavily in what we do - human rights," he said. "We have underweighted something else, and that is history."
Burns said he "fell backward" into being a journalist as a young man when he walked into the office of a Vancouver newspaper seeking a job closer to where his girlfriend at the time lived.
Within a week, he was covering the police beat for the newspaper. His first international stint was as a foreign correspondent in China - a role that he said also came merely by way of circumstance.
Burns said the life of a journalist is a hard one, with long hours and little thanks, but it's provided him with opportunities unique among his contemporaries.
"There are rewards in this business that offset that," he said. "Perhaps the greatest of them is freedom."
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SMS expands coverage to include chronic conditions
In an attempt to attract more students, the University of North Florida's Student Medical Services is now treating chronic conditions and more complicated health issues.
Since hospitals don't regularly treat chronic conditions and medical bills for students lacking insurance can become quite costly, the clinic has opened their doors to these types of issues.
"It's not necessarily only about age," said Li Loriz, director of the school of nursing, who just started working at SMS. "We want to meet the needs of the more mature students. Not all students are 19 or 20 years old these days."
According to Loriz, SMS focuses on promotion of health and preventative behavior, but a new goal has been set to improve the older students' way of life.
"It's all about convenience," Loriz said. "Here at UNF, we have great providers. The emphasis is really on the benefits for the students. A lot of lab work and medication can be provided for much cheaper [...] We really try to keep the cost down."
The university is able to provide these types of care for less since students' medical fees are already covered in the cost of
tuition.
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