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• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; North Pole; Norwegian Sea; Siberia
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16921coll4/id/6281

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It has been three years since the last Thompson Lecture, which honors the memory of Dr. Joseph Thompson, a Concordia College graduate who worked with the Lutheran World Federation for the victims of war in the Mid-dle East. ' The films shown were "The Lemon Tree," "Mi-ral," and "Roadmap to Apartheid." "The Lemon Tree" il-lustrates a true story about a Palestinian wom-an who takes care of a lemon . tree, but is told by the Israeli government the tree must be cut down, causing conflict between the Palestinian women and the government. "Miral" is based off of a semi-autobiographical book of the same title by Rula Jebreal. In it, a Pal-estinian girl tells her sto-ry, which involves grow-ing up in the war zone of the Israeli-Arab conflict. "Roadmap to Apart-heid" is a documentary that looks at why Palestin-ians see themselves as liv-ing in apartheid today. "The reward is when people are touched by the film," said Stewart Her-man, associate professor of religion. The films were shown on three separate Wednes-days prior to Mazin Qum-siyeh's lecture on Oct. 25. Qumsiyeh currently teaches at Birzeit Univer-sity, Bethlehem Univer-sity, and in the Al-Quds University-Bard College Honors Program. Qumsiyeh discussed the relevance of the Mid-dle East conflict for the American people, and em-phasized his nonviolent fight for Palestinian hu-man rights. "[The] purpose of the lecture is to inform about the Palestinian-Israeli issue," said religion pro-fessor Dr. Ahmed Afzaal. "Especially the views that don't get enough attention in the media." Professor Herman said he hoped students would learn from the film series and the lecture. "Students will get a vivid sense of the difficult situation on the Palestin-ian people [and] how chal-lenging it is to make peace on a personal level and on a political level" said Her-man. All of the films are available in the library for those who missed the reli-gion department's show-ings. (by best we meant "most ador-able and un-Halloweeny") Kitty Potter HAILEY VON WALD • THE CONCORDIAN A world record was broken in 2010 when an explorer circumnavigated the Arctic Circle in a mere 80 days. Thorleif Thorlei-fsson visited Concordia's Campus on Tuesday, Oc-tober 9 to discuss his ad-venture and to reflect on his first-hand experiences with the Arctic melting. An environmental counselor from the Roy-al Norwegian Embassy, Marit Saether, opened the lecture for Thorleifsson. Among listing his accom-plishments and feats, she also explained the drastic changes that are occurring in the Arctic. "The face of the Arctic is changing," Saether said. Roald Amundson, a famed Arctic explorer, took six years to circumnavi-gate the Arctic Circle in the early 1900's. Thorleifsson, a graduate of the Norwegian Naval Academy, shattered this record in 2010 with an 80-day voyage. This meant more than simply breaking a record. It meant that the Arctic was shrinking dras-tically. In 2007, Thorleifsson got the idea of traveling around the North Pole and promptly started planning and forming a team. Thorleifsson explained that the ideas they came up with were new and could teach them a lot about the Arctic. "Do you get good ideas from doing the same thing every day or doing some-thing different?" Thorleifs-son asked. He and his crew decided to do something different, for which they would need to plan accordingly. He thoroughly analyzed the challenges they would face during their record-breaking journey. These challenges included which direction they would sail around the Arctic, how to get through the ice, and how to get through closely guarded Russian waters. Thorleifsson chose an-other Norwegian, Berge Ousland, as his crewmate for the journey. They also had a Russian for part of the trip to help translate, a French man to help with weather, and an Arab who wanted to go along for the adventure. Thorleifsson also dis-cussed the supplies they would need on their voy-age— most importantly, a ship. The ship they chose was a trimaran, which is light enough to sail in a mere three feet of water. " They also had to plan strategically for food that would last extended pe-riods of time and for lots of Norwegian wool, since they had no heating system aboard their ship. When Thorleifsson said he and Ousland planned for everything, he meant everything. "Every time I had an idea, he asked, 'Well what could go wrong?' and he expected me to have an an-swer to that as well," Thor-leifsson said. For instance, in the chance that the team would not be able to make it through Russian waters and were forced to walk home through Siberia, they were prepared with morphine and a rifle that they hid in the mast. Despite various hard-ships during their jour-ney Thorleifsson and his crew managed very well. The men that went along all worked well together, were extremely prepared, used their skills and tal-ent, and followed all the rules that they had set up. Eighty days after they began their jour-. ney, Thorleifsson and his crew sailed large waves through the Norwegian Sea back to their starting point. "It's fun, exhausting, and a little bit danger-ous," Thorleifsson said. Now that the expedi-tion is complete, he is already planning for the future. "My vision is to in-crease curiosity in the Arctic," Thorleifsson said. He did not want to com' ment further on his fu-ture plans, since his wife has not yet been filled in on the plans. He did, however, com-ment on what humans can do to change the shrinking Arctic. "'Just do it' is the way we have to approach the future," Thorleifsson said. "It is too late to be a pessimist. Be optimistic." 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