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Page! February 4,2004 CAMPUS NEWS BE THE Wind In Their Apply to be g STiyPENT APVISER, Applications^wailable February 2 In the Dean of Students Office Winter Storm Continued From Page 1 Durham, Johnston, Moore, Orange, Scotland, Wake and Wayne County schools were closed Wednesday as well. The snow created haz ardous driving conditions on roads. In addition, park ing lots and sidewalks were dangerous. Officials urged people to stay off highways so they could clear road ways and hopefully get schools and businesses back opened last Wednesday. Another storm predicted to hit the Triangle Monday Photo by Tiffany Adams Meredith College Under Adverse Weather (and yet the fountain still worked!!) evening just slipped by hit ting the southern comer of North Carolina. South Carolina got the bmnt of this storm. Major electricity service providers reported approximately 174,000 power outages. Six weath er-related deaths were reported in South Carolina from car accidents. There have been several deaths in North Carolina due to weather related car acci dents as well. CALLING ALL AA/CELS/wl If you know of an outstanding Meredith Angel who has done something “Heavenly” to help out either someone in need, her community, or Meredith College, and you would like to see her featured, please email your nominations to herald@meredith.edu WORLD NEWS France Attempts to Ban Religious Symbols From Schools KATIE O’NEAL Staff Writer France is causing an uproar among world powers by proposing a law that would ban all religious symbols from state schools. The cate gory, religious symbols, would include anything that could be seen as pro moting a faith. However, Education Minister Luc Ferry made the surprising comment during Wednesday's National Assembly legal committee meeting that beards, Muslim veils and bandannas could also be interpreted as promoting religion and therefore, could be banned. The idea of forbidding followers of Islam from displaying their traditional headwear in school is causing many in the Muslim community to feel as if the ban is aimed directly at them. France, which is home to five million Muslims, maintains that the law is in no way focused on pun ishing the Muslim com munity, but rather on pro moting tolerance for all religions. Many of France's gov ernment officials, howev er, confirm that the law will serve the purpose of cutting off Islamist influ ence among the Muslim community. In an effort to compromise. Education Minister Ferry has sug gested that perhaps Muslims could continue to wear their traditional headwear if kept discreet. Some have been paci fied by Ferry's sugges tion, such as Chain Singh, a representative of around 5,000 Sikh Muslims, who claims the Muslim community should be pleased by Ferry's effort at compro mise. Others, however, feel it is not good enough. Many Muslims continue to protest the law. Many remain appre hensive about the law because they feel it is unclear and vague. Exactly what falls under the category of religious symbols? The French government, rather than compile an actual list of items that will be forbid den, has chosen to keep only with the broad title of religious symbols. The government is doing so in order to avoid a loophole, which would allow stu dents to display reli gious symbols, as long as those items were not on the list. As expected, France is receiving criticism from all ends of the spectrum for proposing such a con troversial law. Among other things, France is being accused of violat ing religious freedom and demonstrating a trend towards intoler ance. Jacques Chirac, France's president, has been offered little sup port from his own col leagues, many of who have openly said they will vote against the law. Members of Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities have all expressed offense and outrage over the plan. The proposed law will be discussed more in depth sometime next month.
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