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World & Nation
Anna Belle Peevey
WORLD St NATION EDITOR
CALIFORNIA, MARCH
19 - Blackouts were ordered
for the first time since Janu
ary in California Monday,
turning out the lights in ap
proximately 500,000 homes.
The blackouts were ordered
because of increased tempera
tures, a higher power demand
and lack of electricity from the
Northwest. Officials at
California's Independent Sys
tem Operator (ISO), which
monitors the state's power
grid, called a Stage Three
alert at midday. Californian
electricity officials say they
have lost sl3 billion since
last year because of the high
cost of wholesale energy.
"California is just a sign of
what's to come if we don't
diversify our energy re
sources," said Energy Secre
tary Spencer Abraham. "The
failure to meet this chal
lenge will threaten our
nation's economic prosperity,
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The first play, "State Sponsored Violence," is a series of
monologues including two pieces written by student writers. The
monologues are explorations of how we handle people whose lives
and opinions we deem as unwanted. The pieces are about: The
Vietnam War, The NATO Bombing of Serbia, IMF/WTO protests,
and police brutality in the inner city. The monologues do not offer
a specific plan of action, merely a look into how police decisions
and individual actions affect the lives of others.
The second play, "A Game," by Dennis Noble , is a
slapstick comedy about a psychology experiment. This humorous
one-act play takes us on the journey of three people handling
complex ideological and moral issues in a Laurel and Hardy type
fashion. As the characters immerse themselves in the experiment,
the action begins to speed up, reaching a fever pitch and a surprise
ending.
What's In The News
will compromise our national
security and literally alter the
way we live our lives."
CALIFORNIA, MARCH
19 - State legislators are soon
expected to pass a bill requir
ing school districts to create a
clear policy and discipline code
on bullying. The bill defines bul
lying as "fear of injury or vio
lence by one or more students."
The action was introduced in
January, before the recent
school shooting at Santana High
School in Santee, Calif., which
left two students dead and 13
other people wounded. "I hope
that this is a step in the right
direction to stop bullying,"
said Evan Hirsch, a 9th*grader
in the school district who also
serves as a student mediator.
AFGHANISTAN,
MARCH 19 -12 cows were sac
rificed in the courtyard of
Afghanistan's presidential pal
ace Monday to atone for the de
lay in destroying two giant
statues of Buddha. The cows
were the first of 100 that were
ordered killed throughout the
country by the Taliban's reclu-
The Guilfordian
sive leader, Mullah
Mohammed Omar. He issued
the order last weekend, saying
the cows would be sacrificed as
an offering because of the de
layed demolition of 170-foot
and 120-foot statues of Buddha
in central Bamiyan. The meat
was given to the poor.
RHODE ISLAND,
MARCH 18 - Stacks of Brown
University student newspa
pers disappeared Friday, the
latest casualty in a campus
wide controversy over an ad
denouncing slavery repara
tions. Last Tuesday, the
university's paper ran a full
page advertisement, entitled
"Ten Reasons Why Reparations
for Slavery Is a Bad Idea and
racist too." The ad was paid for
by a conservative commentator,
David Horowitz, who submitted
it to nearly 50 colleges, includ
ing Brown. The one-page text,
which .is laid out to resemble the
bill of rights, claims that Afri
can Americans owe the United
States more than it owes them.
While some students described
the incident as a Ist Amend-
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merit issue, others claimed
"The Brown Daily Herald ...
chose to ... print a paid ad
vertisement that solicits
funds in order to further a
maliciously misinformed
and intentionally misguided
political project," said the
Coalition of Concerned
Brown Students, a group
which formed to protest the
ad.
WASHINGTON,
MARCH 19 - The Supreme
Court ruled Monday that a
former high school student's
Marilyn Manson T-shirt was
offensive. Nicholas J. Boroff,
who lost the appeal, says he
had a free-speech right to
wear Marilyn Manson T
shirts to class. But officials at
his school in Ohio banned
them, and Boroff sued, saying
school officials violated his
constitutional rights to free
speech and due process. A fed
eral judge ruled for the school
district, and the 6th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in
Cincinnati agreed.