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overing the plant. When
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students, one allegedly
to taking the plant. The
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p of the paraphernalia,
ficials charged both students
conduct citations.
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paraphernalia, trespass-
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aplaint of a suspicious vehi-
with two occupants that
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lice arrested him in the past
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Par::ig.
Students attend global conference in Dubai
by Angele Mainhart
Staff Reporter
Eight female students at UNCA
attended the Women as Global
Leaders Conference at Zayed
University in Dubai, where they
discussed the importance of
female leadership with other par
ticipants from around the world.
“The man who ran it, the
provost of Zayed University,
Thomas Cochran, used to be at
UNCA as an administrator,” said
Peg Downes, professor literature
and language. “He had a vision of
creating opportunities like this for
college students who have a lot of
leadership potential.”
Those who attend can talk to
each other globally, so, when they
become world leaders, they will
already be talking to each
other,things like this can change
the world, according to Downes.
During the conference, several
different speakers, such as Tipper
Gore and Kim Campbell, the for
mer prime minister of Canada,
spoke about what it means to be a
female leader. They spoke from
their own experiences and
encouraged the students to work
together despite any differences.
“My favorite part of the trip was
“It gives us a
chance to see the
world from a very
different
perspective.”
Vanessa Manzi
senior political science student
PHOTO COURTESY OF ASHLEY BOWMAN
Faculty selected UNCA students to attend a global leadership conference for women at Zayed
University in Dubai. Students iearned skiils to help them in the future.
when the former prime minister
of Scotland spoke,” said
Rhiannon O’Conner, senior polit
ical science student.
“She was just amazing, and she
really summed up the conference
better than anybody else. Just her
speech showed how important it
was to try to be leaders.”
The prime minister said women
need to stop trying to imitate men,
because they do bad imperson
ations, according to O’Conner.
“We’re better at being women
than we are at being men,” said
O’Conner, quoting the prime min
ister.
Aside from actual leaders, stu
dents also presented papers dur
ing the conference on various top
ics. The event gave students a
hands-on experience in another
culture in order to learn how to
talk globally with people from
“It makes you use
your own critical
thinking and
analysis skills”
Meghan Deutsch
senior international political
economy student
aiound the world.
“Some individuals gave presen
tations on leadership, women,
gender studies and the culture and
women,” said Meghan Deutsch,
senior international political
economy student.
“1 study international studies,
and I think it’s very important to
see, first hand, how a culture
works and meet actual people. It
makes you use your own critical
thinking and analysis skills to
come up with conclusions about a
part of the world that is so differ
ent.”
Another student said the
women’s perspective enabled her
SEE GLOBAL, PAGE 14
Asheville reco.gnizes war anniversary
ition
jF analysis of government
jte by the Pew Hispanic Center
fri' approximately 10.3 mil-
"fl Undocumented immigrants
Jfe ited the United States in
w h 2004.
(ali'ornia holds 24 percent of
I immigrant population, fol-
by Texas at 14 percent.
Carolina ranks number
SEE BRIEFS, PAGE 14
by Sarah Schmidt
Staff' Importer
With poetry, speeches and
protest signs, some Asheville citi
zens marked the two-year
anniversary of the Iraq War on
March 20 at a peace rally at the
City-County Plaza in Asheville.
The peace rally, sponsored by
11 local organizations, including
the Progressive Democrats of
Buncombe County and Veterans
for Peace, drew about 300 people,
according to an estimate from
police. The Asheville peace rally
became one of hundreds of anti
war rallies scheduled for the
anniversary weekend.
“I think that in time more peo
ple will see the positive aspects of
the war in Iraq,” said Jeremy
Abee, senior music student and
chair of the College Republicans.
Kam Parker, master of ceremo
ny, said to begin a peace rally you
start with a shout- out of Iraq.
Parker, a member of Veterans
for Peace and a UNCA creative
writing student, joined the peace
movement after 11 years of serv
ice in the Coast Guard and the
Marine Corps.
Every soldier has to swear to
defend the U.S. Constitution from
enemies both foreign and domes
tic,” said Parker. “After
September 11th, I considered re
enlisting to be able to serve and
protect my country, and I was
asked by my loved ones to make
sure I thought it through. So I did
some personal research, and very
quickly found a connection
between the CIA and Osama bin
Laden, as well as a financial con
nection between the Bush family
and the bin Laden family.
“To me, that presented a great
conflict of interest and created a
conflict of conscience in myself.
So, the solution I found for
myself, to keep my promise and
defend my constitution, was to
enter the peace movement.”
The organizations, supporting
the rally hosted booths for their
individual causes and collected
donations from the crowd. Fools
of Conscience, a group affiliated
with the WNC Peace Coalition,
listed the ways in which protes
tors demonstrated against wars by
refusing to pay taxes.
“A war resistor is someone who
is a conscientious objector to war,
and most people are aware of peo
ple refusing to fight who are con
scientious objectors,” said Cicado
Brokaw, Fools of Conscience
member. “But there are those of
us who would also not want to
have any of our money used to
buy guns or bullets or missiles, or
to pay for that person with a gun
out there shooting people, so we
won’t pay for war, and that is our
stand as conscientious objectors.”
Rally attendants listened to
musicians, poets and speakers
who commemorated the second
anniversary of the Iraq War in
individual ways. Social artist and
poet DeWayne Barton brought
one of his pieces of art entitled
SHERRY DALE/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Asheville residents attended a peace rally March 20 in
protest of the war in Iraq.
“Red Planet” - a wooden boat “It’s really an anti-war piece,
with plastic figurines of soldiers but it may or may not seem that
fighting one another and falling way,” said Barton. “1 am a local
into the red-painted bottom of a —
toilet. SEE PEACE, PAGE 14
March 24, 2005
Student
speaks of
Lebanon
turmoil
by Justin Wagner
Staff Reporter
Syrian troops continue to with
draw from Lebanon after the assas
sination of an anti-Syrian prime
minister. Syrian occupation affect
ed many aspects of life in the
country.
“It’s out in the open because of
recent events,” said Rabih
Dahdouh, undeclared sophomore
with family in Lebanon.
“It’s exacerbated the situation,
and there is pressure now on Syria
from the United States and United
Nations.
Dahdouh also said the scutiny
from the U.S. intensifies matters.
“The last thing they want is to be
sanctioned more,” said Dahdouh.
“Syria is already being scrutinized
by the U.S., and this just makes it
much worse.”
The assassination of former
Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik
Hariri on Feb. 14 precipitated
national and international condem
nation and brought into question
Syria’s role of military occupation
in Lebanon. Syrian involvement in
the country, however, contains
deeper historical ties, according to
Dahdouh.
“Basically, their aspiration is to
make Lebanon part of Greater
Syria,” said Dahdouh. “They think
of Lebanon as their homeland as
well. They still feel like they
should have the right to control us
and be under their kind of govern
ment.”
Syrian troops in Lebanon prior to
the Hariri assassination numbered
14,000. They have since either left
the country or redeployed to the
Bekaa Valley region near the bor
der of Syria and Lebanon. Critics
of the occupation also called for
the removal of Syrian intelligence
agents inside Lebanon.
“Here’s something that all
Lebanese know, which they (the
media) don’t get,” said Dahdouh.
“The Syrians are using Lebanon as
a puppet government. They have a
secret service, and they’ve always
had that.”
Protests in Lebanon erupted after
Hariri’s assassination, including a
rally March 14 in which an esti
mated one million demonstrators
participated, the largest in
Lebanon’s history.
The demonstration managed to
cross traditional sectarian lines that
ignited conflict in the past, accord
ing to Dahdouh.
“There’s always been problems
with the Christians and the
Muslims,” said Dahdouh. “We
came together that day, and we all
protested against the Syrians.
“Basically, we just want to be
left alone and to have our own
independence.”
Syria announced it would
remove troops and intelligence
agents from Lebanon before
scheduled elections in May. U.S.
officials and Lebanese opposition
members concerned with a linger
ing Syrian political influence in the
country demanded Syrian with
drawal before this date.
The Lebanese Parliament voted
pro-Syrian Prime Minister Omar
Karami, who resigned after
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