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NEWS
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Amazing Students, a program offered by StudentAffairs and Services, recognizes Memorial’s studentsuperheroes. They are outstanding role modelsand involved contributors. They are leaders inacademics, student societies, and the community.
www.mun.ca/student/amazing
Alison Pittman.Ionic Woman.
Alison Pittman.Ionic Woman.
Alison Pittman.Ionic Woman.
Alison Pittman.Ionic Woman.
Let’s get it straight.
No, AlisonPittman can’t outrun a car, hear whispers amile away, and she doesn’t have an armmade of steel – we think! She’s not bionic.She’s ionic, which is way cooler. Whethershe’s playing with atoms in the lab, coachingkids to win gold in the Special Olympics orsinging on stage in her free time, thisbiochem honours student knows how tobond in-class and out. She hopes one day tobecome a doctor. Who knows, she couldeven become an expert in bionics.
By Ian MacDonald
O
n Jan. 6, the day beoreclasses started, twomen walked into the campus
bookstore and successully stole
merchandise.
Employees irst noticed they
were acting strange when thepair entered the store with anold University Bookstore bag.
Ater an employee noticed thatone o the men had taken a pair
o sunglasses o o the rack, they
kept a watch out.
Once they let, cashierCourtney Barbour, a MUN
Students’ Union board rep and
volunteer at the
Muse
, sent a callout to Campus Enorcement and
Patrol (CEP).
“We knew that they had taken
[the sunglasses], so I kicked the
panic bar underneath the cash
because CEP is supposed to come
over right away,” she said.
“hey didn’t actually show
up.”Barbour is working as a part-timer during the back to school
rush and had been trained a ew
days prior to the incident.She says that the bookstore’s
core sta was in a meeting, so the
new employees waited or them
to return, and then explained
what happened.“We didn’t know i the panic
bar was aulty or they just didn’trespond to it, but then ater that,
the next day, they had a CEP
oicer on the door.”
In an e-mail to the
Muse
,
CEP
manager John Browne clariied
bkste theves escpe
Cmps Ptrol ls to respon to stress cll
Campus Enorcement and Patrol’s John Browne says human error is to blame or CEP’s lack o response to a bookstore distress call.
what happened on the patrol’s
end.
“We did receive an alarm romthe Bookstore. here was a thet.
Due to human error the alarm
was not properly detected. A
systems check was done and the
system was working properly.CEP has taken measures to
prevent a re-occurrence.”
Bookstore manager LuAnneKelly says that while she can’t
comment on what the problem
was, CEP has been quick to
respond in the past and has helped
in a number o incidences.
Barbour’s only ear was thatit could have been something
worse.
“It’s kind o scary to think
about…I mean i it were a more
serious incident like someonetrying to take the money rom
the till and being violent.”
HEaTHEr KiNG
Jn. 22, 2009
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By Ian MacDonald
O
ver 100 demonstrators
gathered outside the Colonial
building in St. John’s to take astand against Israel’s attacks on
Gaza and to call or action romthe Canadian government.
On Jan. 18, demonstrators
crowded the steps o the Colonial
building waving Palestinian agsand signs demanding reedom or
Gaza and an end to all violence
between Hamas and the Israeli
government.
Te day beore the scheduledprotest, Israeli oicials putorward a unilateral ceasere.Hamas, the ruling party o the
Gaza-based Palestinian National
Authority, responded the day o
the protest and agreed to a one
week armistice.
Te MUN Muslim Students’Association president Kassem
Abouchehade was the rst speaker
to address the crowd.
He says that the ongoingceaseire is a step toward
acceptance or both sides o the
conict, and he questioned the
Canadian government’s inactionduring the crisis.“Violence never gives peace or
justice,” he said. “As Canadians we
expect our government to reectour values.”
I the ceasere is ollowed,
and medicine and vital items are
allowed to ow reely to Gaza,
Abouchehade believes that a long-
lasting peace agreement betweenthe two sides could be a reality inthe uture.
Rana Abdulla, a Palestinianliving in St. John’s, asked thecrowd to be critical o their
government.
“It’s not anti-Canadianto criticize the Canadian
government. Is this the best our
government can oer?”
She says a cycle o violence starts
in conicts like these as children
who have seen brutality will be
likely to re-enact it.
Te Jewish Students Association
was not represented at the rally,
but President Susanne Gulliverissued a statement to the
Muse
agreeing with the sentiments o
the demonstrators.“We also want to join with all
peoples in praying or the current
ceasere to lead to a long-lasting
peace where all peoples in theregion can live together and
prosper.”
Ptestes ll ee, se Gz
Stent n commnty gropsple or contne cesefre
Protesters gathered at the Colonial building on Sunday to raise awareness about the violence in Gaza.
he 1947 United Nations Partition
Plan dissolved the BritishMandate o Palestine and hopedto break the region into distinct
Arab and Jewish states, leaving thehighly contested city o Jerusalemunder UN mandate.
Te planned Arab state wouldencompass 43.53 per cent o Palestine, while the Jewish state
would hold 56.47 per cent.
A year later, Arab leaders reused
to ocially accept the UN plan
while Jewish leaders had publicly
accepted it. Led by David Ben
Gurion, Israel declared itsel a ully
independent state.
Soon afer, the outbreak o therst Arab-Israeli war occurred.An armistice agreement was
signed between Israel and the Arab
countries.
A piece o land between Egypt
and Israel, known as the Gaza Strip,was taken under Egyptian rule as a
result o the war and was heraldedas a reuge or Palestinian Arabs.
1956 saw the outbreak o the
Suez Crisis as Egypt was invaded
by Israel, Britain, and France.
Control o the Gaza Strip shifed
to Israel afer the war, until thecountry pulled out in 1957 acing
international political pressure.
June o 1967 marked the
beginning o the Six Day war, the
second Arab-Israeli war. Egypt’s
call or Arab action against Israelenticed an Israeli pre-emptive airstrike. Israel recaptured the Gaza
strip in the process.
Following the attacks, the UN
Security Council passed resolution
242 requiring Israel to withdraw
rom areas occupied as a result o the
Six Day war. Te Israel government
then began to build settlements in
Gaza, the rst o which was Kar
Darom in 1970.
Clashes and violence increased inGaza as the Palestinian population
reused to give itsel up to Israelrule. he inteadeh (uprising)
began in 1987 bringing open revoltacross Gaza and the West Bank asPalestinians threw rocks at Israeli
soldiers. Hamas was ormed during
this time.Israeli settlements continued togrow in Gaza despite the violence.
In 1993, the PalestinianLiberation Organization (PLO),
headed by Yasser Araat, and the
Israeli government signed the Oslo
Accords in Washington, DC. Te
accord sought to peaceully resolvethe conict between the armed PLO
and Israeli government.
It also placed Te PalestinianNational Authority (PNA) as the
governing body o the Gaza Strip.
By 1994, the violence in Gaza hadquelled and the Israeli military had
mostly pulled out. But, in 1995, the
Hamas along with Islamist Jihadauthorized suicide bombings
against Israelis living in the strip.
Israel and the PNA signed another
peace treaty to try to resolve the
conict.
In 2000, President Clintonbrought Araat and Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Barak to peace talks
in the U.S. Te discussions ailed
and the second inteadeh began.
obadaH SHadid
Gz mmes: a sht hst the cnfct
A new Israeli prime minister
in 2005 meant a change inpolicy towards Gaza. Ariel
Sharon pulled the troops rom
Gaza and planned to build awall around the Strip to keeppotential suicide bombers out
o Israel.During this time the Hamas
and the PNA came into conict
over control o Gaza. Hamaswon a victory in the 2006
parliamentary elections, taking
control o the PNA.As a result o Hamas killing
two Israeli soldiers andkidnapping a Corporal, Israelclosed the border to Gaza,denying them o goods. Israel
then carried out a campaign o
assassinations against Hamaswhile Hamas red rockets in
response.
In June o 2008, the two parties
agreed to another ceasere to
keep the rocket re at bay. Te
ceasere ended in Decemberwhen Hamas accused Israel
o keeping their border closed
and Israel claimed that Hamascontinued rocket attacks.
Israel then began an assault
on Gaza. Afer 19 days o attack,
Reuters reported on Jan. 14 that
the Hamas claimed that over1,000 Palestinians had been
killed in Gaza.
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