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'Eyewitness Gaza' coming to Porter Center tonight
Photographer to share his experiences
by Jubal Tiner
Faculty Contributor
Until recently we didn’t hear
much about Gaza, a narrow
sliver of land in Palestine-
Israel that is home to 1.5 mil
lion Palestinians—some 75
percent of them refugees since
1948 when the state of Israel
was founded, and 1967, after
the Six Day War
With the carnage reported
daily—rocket attacks by mili
tants against Israeli civilians
and Israel’s air, sea, and land
attacks on Gaza, the region is
now in the hearts of many.
Skip Schiel, aphotojoumahst
from Cambridge, Mass., will
offer a multimedia presenta
tion about Gaza, “Eyewitness
Gaza,” at 6:30 p.m. on Friday,
Feb. 6 in MG 125.
Mr Schiel has traveled and
photographed in Israel-Pales-
tine over a five-year period,
usually three months each year.
Using photographs and stories,
he will present his experiences
from his last journey to the land
of troubles in January 2008.
Schiel visited the apparent
site of the 2003 killing of Ra
chel Corrie, a young woman
working with Palestinians in
Rafah.
He toured the area near the
Egyptian border wall which
in volatile land
four days later Gazans breached
in a nonviolent attempt to break
the siege. While in Gaza Mr
Schiel worked with the Ameri
can Friends Service Committee
youth program, teaching and
photographing.
His professional life has been
in filmmaking and photog
raphy, plus teaching of those
topics. For 10 years he taught
filmmaking at Boston College,
and since 1990 he has taught
photography through the Cam
bridge Center for Adult Educa
tion and Harvard University’s
Landscape Institute.
His photography ranges be
tween landscape, abstract,
experimental, portraiture, and
socially engaged. Which means
he tries to link much of his pho
tography to social issues. These
have included American Indi
ans, African Americans, pov
erty, enviroimiental issues, and
since 2003 Israel-Palestine.
His photos have appeared in
the Boston Globe, Christian
Science Monitor, and Pro
gressive Magazine, and are
in the collections of Harvard
University.
He has had exhibitions in
numerous venues across the
country. His primary faith
communities are Quaker and
Buddhist.
Photos are on his website,
teeksaphoto.org, and his blog,
skipschiel.wordpress.com.
Ask the School Nurse:
Pain during sex could be from STl
Dear Susan,
Two weeks ago, I started having some weird pains
during sex with my boyfriend. I didn’t really think anything
about it but two days ago I started having a burning feeling
when I pee. I am worried that I may have picked up
something but we are only sleeping with each other and I
am sure of this. What should I do ?
Thank you for contacting
me. First, it is important to see
you in order to diagnose any
medical condition, but let me
give you some information in
order for you to decide how
best to take care of yourself
From the little bit you have
told me, two possibilities
for your symptoms include
a urinary tract infection and
Chlamydia, which is an STI
(Sexually Transmitted Infec
tion).
Urinary tract infections are
caused by many different
bacteria. Symptoms include
pain in the bladder, burning
on urination, and frequency of
urination even when there is
little urine in the bladder You
may also have a change in the
color and odor of urine. I can
do a simple urine test here and
have an antibiotic prescribed by
our doctors if needed.
Your symptoms including
pain during sexual intercourse
sound more like Chlamydia.
The symptoms for women
include vaginal discharge, pain
or burning during urination,
cloudy urine, lower abdominal
pain, and abnormal vaginal
bleeding with intercourse or
between periods.
Men’s symptoms include
painful urination or itching
sensation during urination,
watery or shmy discharge from
the penis, crusting at the tip of
the penis, and pain or swelhng
of the testicles/scrotum. Both
men and women can also have
conjunctivitis, which is a swell
ing and redness of the mucus
membranes inside the eyelids.
The time between exposure
to Chlamydia and the start of
symptoms (the incubation pe
riod) is usually 1-3 weeks after
exposure to someone infected
with Chlamydia.
If this is Chlamydia, you
are actually fortunate to have
symptoms as this can be diag
nosed by urinalysis and easily
treated by antibiotics. Both you
and your boyfriend will need to
be treated at the same time in
order to prevent re-infection.
Left untreated, this bacteria can
cause serious problems. Inboth
men and women, sterility may
result (inability to conceive or
produce viable sperm).
In women, pelvic inflamma
tory disease (PID) may result
causing a possible chronic
abdominal pain and increased
possibility of ectopic pregnan
cy (implantation of the egg out
side the uterus, usually in the
faUopian tubes). 75 percent of
women and 50 percent of men
experience no symptoms with
Chlamydia, so routine testing
for STIs on a regular basis is
highly recommended..
Since Chlamydia caimot be
transmitted in any way other
than sexually, it wiU be impor
tant for you and your boyfriend
to talk about this.
Sexual relationships are com-
phcated and emotional. Even
when you believe that you
and your boyfriend are having
sexual relationships only with
each other, you caimot know
for certain what another person
is doing.
Using condoms all the time
until you are in a long term
committed relationship is vi
tally important to your health.
Women catch STIs more easily,
so take care of yourself!
Please come by the Chnic to
talk to me. I am here to help
and only want to be sure that
you are being treated medi
cally for any health problems.
I have condoms available at the
Chnic. Take care and I hope to
see you soon.
— Susan Martin, RN