| Summary: | THE ONCORDIAN Friday, January 31, 2003 Volume 13, Issue No. 16 Inside. News. PRACS volun-teers score "easy" money. Page 2 Opinions. Pro-war or anti- war, it's your responsibili-ty to make a choice. Page 3 Features. Student DS workers — the inside story. Page 5 Pops, popcorn and pas de bourees. Page 6 Sports. Hitting the ice with men's and women's hock-ey. Page 7 Correction Policy We at The Concordian strive to bring you accurate news each week. However, when we make mistakes, it is our policy to correct them. If you feel an error has been made, please contact The Concordian staff at 299-3826 or by e-mail at concord@cord.edu. Protesting for peace in D.C. Elizabeth Capouch Staff Writer Five Cobbers traveled more than 1,300 miles lo take part in a nationwide pica foe international peace which resounded through Washington, D.C. on Jan. 18. Seniors Kate Olson and Dana Boraas, junior Cheryl Troxel, and sopho-mores Katie Somerfeld and William Neuheisel joined hundreds of thou-sands of Americans on the Capitol Mall and then proceeded on a march through the heart of Washington in an anti-war protest organized by I n t e r n a t i o n a l A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism). "I felt that I had to [go]," Neuheisel said. "I had it on my conscience. If we go to war with Iraq, innocent people are going to die, and I couldn't live with myself if I didn't stand up for what I believe in." Neuheisel is just one of a growing number of Americans who believe that going to war with Iraq is a mistake. Troxel is also of this mindset. "I feel that we haven't exhausted the peaceful alternatives yet," she said. "I think that until that time we have absolutely no justification for war." President Bush and the United States Congress are deliberating over using military force in Iraq. Bush stated that Iraq is stockpiling weapons of mass destruction in viola-tion of the United Nations' order to disarm. "The world has waited 12 years for Iraq to dis-arm," Bush said in his State of the Union address Tuesday. "America will not accept a serious and mounting threat to our country and our friends and our allies." The United Nations' weapons inspectors are investigating the charge against Iraq, and present-ed a preliminary report on Monday that "criticized Iraq's disclosure of past arms programs but did not corroborate U.S. claims & SEE PEACE ON PAGE 8 Submitted photo Protesting Cobbers display their signs at a peace rally/march in Washington D.C. Jan. 18. Pictured left to right are Nicole Moriarty, a high school student from International Falls; Katie Somerfield, Concordia sophomore; Cheryl Troxel, Concordia junior; Dana Boraas, Concordia senior; William Neuheisel, Concordia sophomore; and Kate Olson, Concordia senior. The students were just six of thousands of concerned people from all walks of life who gathered in the nation's capital to make their voices heard regarding military action against Iraq and their beliefs about world peace and international relations. Iraq dialogue Photo by Mike Boe Tensions mounted as Cobbers discussed the threat of war with Iraq. Stewart Herman, Spencer Cody and Elizabeth Lerohl were members of a panel discussion hosted on Wednesday night in the Centrum. After each panelist spoke, the audience was given an opportunity to address the dif-ferent perspectives surrounding military action against Iraq. Marketing fun and games in Canada Anna Erickson Opinions Editor A team of four students and their advi-sor recently traveled to Winnipeg to com-pete in the Manitoba International Marketing Competition (MIMC) Jan. 9 through 12. This was the first year a Concordia team has entered and it won't be the last. According to Ruth Lumb, assistant professor of business, accounting and economics, schools have to be invited to compete in this competition, and this year she was asked. The competition was "very international," according to Lumb, because there were teams from Iceland, France, Germany and Mexico, among others, and the Concordia team did very well. 'The judges told me that they did exceptionally well for a first-time team," Lumb said. Junior Kweku Sampson described the event as a marketing simulation that was very real. "It's like you're running your own business," Sampson said. "You compete against others in your own industry, look at what's going on in other markets and figure out what they're doing." The MIMC is put on by the I.H. Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba and is sponsored by a number of large industries. Their mission state-ment is "to develop business marketing skills and global awareness in students with the cooperation of the corporate community, in order to gain an interna-tional, interuniversity academic experi- + SEE MARKETING ON PAGE 3 Compassionate Cobbers concert Bethany Holt Copy Editor Submitted photo Potula Akhil, a six-year-old from India, is one of the sponsored children. Three children from Asia are Cobber fans. Why? Last spring, Cobbers who attended a benefit concert here at Concordia donated enough money to sponsor these children through Compassion International for an entire year. Because of the over-whelming success of last year's concert, junior John Gregoire and senior Jim Farnsworth have decided to organize it once again. The benefit concert will be held next Friday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Centrum. Groups per-forming will be Davis?, The Blues Brothers, and two "no-name groups," one consisting of Krista Rogness, Carla Zbacnik, Amanda Hoffman and Andrea Rivard; the other, Jim Farnsworth, John Gregoire, Andrew Hynie, Alex Gerbig, Ryan Engebretson and Josue Garcia. A freewill donation will be taken to continue sponsoring children through Compassion International and also to support Visthar, a non-profit Indian organization that provides education to rural children. (Cobbers studying abroad first semester visited this organization.) Two of the Visthar leaders will soon be at Concordia; they are planning a Saturday ses-sion for the Peace Prize Forum. So what prompted Gregoire and Farnsworth to put this concert togeth-er? "[Last year] we really wanted to play," said Farnsworth. "We were very concerned about our music; we had to practice a lot. But when we saw everyone coming in [to the concert], giving money, we thought, 'Wow! This is really cool!1" This year, the motiva-tion came from the chil-dren. "Let's sponsor these • see COMPASSION ON PAGE 8 Submitted photo Four-year old Narinthip Chabantom, of Thailand, is also sponsored. www.cord.edu/dept/concord
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