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(03/22/06 5:00am)
The Campus Y is looking for a few good volunteers.
The University's largest student organization is accepting applications for co-chairmen for each of its 17 service committees.
"We encourage anyone from the student body to apply," said Co-president Mona Soni. "Anyone who's willing to dedicate their lives to the Y."
Applications for co-chairmen positions are available at campus-y.unc.edu and can be submitted by e-mail. The deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesday.
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(02/22/06 5:00am)
Interactions between the United States and Iran have become strained due to misconceptions, said a foreign relations expert from down the road.
Rather than attending their normal lecture in international studies, about 400 students gathered Tuesday night in Carroll 111 to hear guest speaker Jalil Roshandel, a visiting political science professor from Duke University.
In his presentation, titled "U.S.-Iran Relation: The Impact on Iran's Defense Policy," the Iranian native assured the audience that he was not taking sides, but rather looking through the eyes of Iranians to convey how they feel.
"The U.S. and Iran had the best of relations until 1978," he said. "Ever since, there has been no diplomacy between them."
Members of the community also attended the lecture to listen to Roshandel's perspective on the relationship between the U. S. and Iran.
"There are a lot of misconceptions about Iranian culture," said Justin Sosne, a teaching assistant for the course. "It's unique in comparison to other Middle Eastern countries like Iraq and Afghanistan."
Specializing in Iranian foreign relations, Roshandel has held research and teaching positions at Stanford University and the University of California-Los Angeles, along with roles at institutions in Iran, Denmark and Turkey.
He began his lecture on a humorous note with a segment from The Daily Show titled "Let's Go: Bomb Iran!" The program's host, Jon Stewart, briefly explained Iranian geography, controversy and misconceptions.
Using the humor to engage the audience, Roshandel then introduced the fact that Israel, Turkey and Iran are the only non-Arab nations in the Middle East.
"The Persian culture is one of the most important characteristics of Iran," Roshandel said.
But to U.S. leaders, details like this are overshadowed by the war on terrorism and broad generalizations, Roshandel said.
He noted that President Bush included Iran in his classification of an "axis of evil" in a State of the Union Address following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Iran initially supported the invasion of Afghanistan and even offered search and rescue missions to the U. S. military, Roshandel said.
Now, the scholar says Iran strongly opposes the U. S. military maintaining a long-term occupancy in the Middle East and what the country believes is an alternative reason for that occupancy - the quest for oil.
"Iran was one of the few countries in the Middle East that took a stance against terrorism," Roshandel said.
"They are the most pro-American population in the Middle East."
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(02/15/06 5:00am)
About 50 UNC-Chapel Hill students gathered Tuesday to reflect on understanding rape and its effects on both men and women in the community.
The White Ribbon Campaign and the Carolina V-Day Initiative sponsored the event titled "Connecting the Dots: Making Sense of the Rape Culture" to bring both sexes together to discuss how men can help end violence against women.
"This presentation addresses men's role in violence against women," said Katie Joyner, a senior journalism major and V-Day event coordinator.
"It's extremely important to address violence against women because very little emphasis is put on preventing it before it becomes a part of the cultural norm."
People need to face the reality that the vast majority of rapists are men, said Cutler Andrews, event lecturer and UNC-CH alumnus. It's important to get men more engaged and involved, he added.
Representatives from the Men's Anti-violence Leadership Education Project conducted the presentation and led a seminar discussing how sexist language and pornography reinforce rape culture.
"There are problems with men's violence in our culture," said Matt Ezzell, another event lecturer and UNC-Ch alumnus.
"Men assume a role in violence against women. Instead of looking at it as domestic violence or sexual abuse we need to name the perpetrators as men."
The presentation also included discussion about defining masculinity, protecting oneself against violence and harassment and men's apparent lack of worry about being sexually assaulted.
The campaign promotes the responsibility of men to oppose sexual harassment, rape, verbal abuse and physical abuse against women.
"Everyone is a part of this culture that allows rape to exist," said Michael Schwalbe, a professor at N.C. State University and a lecturer at the event.
"You've got to get men to take responsibility and focus on trying to get them to understand the problem and make change."
The V-Day Initiative is part of a global initiative to spur awareness and stop violence against women.
Each year, the organization holds a weeklong experience culminating in a student production of "The Vagina Monologues."
The event will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday and at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Hanes Art Center auditorium.
Tickets can be purchased in the Pit for $8 through Friday and cost $10 at the door.
All profits from the fundraiser will be donated to the Orange County Rape Crisis Center and the Family Violence Prevention Center of Chapel Hill.
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(01/27/06 5:00am)
In response to widespread unpopular responses to changes in campus housing procedure, student leaders will meet today with housing officials to revisit the issue.
The student advisory committee to the chancellor organized the meeting with the Residence Hall Association to discuss the housing policy and its new changes.
"Students have raised a lot of legitimate concerns," said Adrian Johnston, student body vice president and chairman of the committee.
The changes will revise the housing policy, providing rising freshman and sophomores with priority to secure rooms on North Campus. Rising juniors and seniors will be given priority housing in South Campus' Odum Village and the new Ram Village apartments.
"I am not comfortable with the policy," Johnston said. "We need a policy that is good for students and for the housing department."
Johnston said his primary goal for the meeting is to assure students that their voices have been heard, and that the committee is going to work hard to represent those concerns.
"Housing has been very cooperative and has agreed to reexamine their decision," Johnston said. "This is not a confrontation but a collaboration to find the best policy."
RHA leaders said that they support the housing changes but that they also propose a grandfather clause to exempt current UNC students from the changes. With such a clause, the housing changes would not go into effect until class of 2010.
RHA officials signed off on the plan before it was introduced to students earlier this semester.
"People are blowing things out of perspective," RHA President Chasity Wilson said. "The entire University is going through a big change, and students are failing to see the big picture. If they did, maybe they would appreciate it."
But many students on campus do not maintain such an optimistic attitude toward the changes.
Some students are heading an online petition protesting against the new policy.
The petition, found at www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/unc, has garnered 482 signatures since it was posted Jan. 17.
"I think it's huge that we're having this meeting tomorrow because it shows flexibility," said sophomore education major Elisabeth Pascale, one of the petition's leaders.
"I think that the meeting and the petition combined will get us somewhere."
Johnston said the petition is a good outlet for students to voice their opinions.
"The petition has been very useful in allowing students to give insightful comments," Johnston said. "Students should continue to submit to (Pascale's) petition, and if new issues are raised, those issues will be raised as well."
Johnston also stressed that it is important for students who support the new housing policies to have their voices heard as well.
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(01/12/06 5:00am)
Plans to use student fees to install air-conditioning systems in Fetzer gymnasium aren't drawing heat from student leaders who vocally opposed the use of similar funds to renovate Carmichael Auditorium.