News Archives - 2007

Former Air America Radio host and Saturday Night Live cast member, renowned satirist, author, and 2008 DFL Senate candidate Al Franken spoke to a crowded chapel at Augsburg College on Tuesday, April 24.

Focusing on his campaign and his views on key issues, he also touched upon his early years growing up in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Following a 35 minute speech, he took questions from the audience.

Franken, a Harvard alumnus who spent his formative years as a resident of St. Louis Park, focused his comments on topics such as the U.S. involvement in the Iraq War, the impact of policy development in our daily lives, politics and the media, and why it is becoming increasingly important that our youth understand policy and become more active in the political process.

Franken joined a series of speakers who have recently come to Augsburg College, including Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, and Daniel Ellsberg, former American military analyst who created a national uproar in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers.