| Summary: | PAGE EIGHT THE CONCORDIAN - CONCORDIA COLLEGE - MOORHEAD, MINNESOTA Volume XCVI, Issue 02 - Friday, September 17, 2004 House for sale at 602 4th St. S. 5 bedrooms, 2 baths. Within walking distance of Concordia. $106,000. Call Curt Winter, RE/MAX Realty 1, 218-233-8008. For rent- Large two bed-room in clean, quiet smoke-free 4-plex. Off-street park-ing, plug-ins, laundry facili-ties. Only one unit available. 233-1881 for appointment. Make Money taking Online Surveys. Earn $10- $125 for Surveys. Earn $25- $250 for Focus Groups. Visit www.cash4students.com/con cor/ CLASSIFIEDS THE CONCORDIAN HOUSING JOBS Classified advertising space is available to campus and off-campus groups. To place an ad, fill out a form at The Concordian advertising office in Fjelstad Hall room B05 or email cordadd@cord.edu. Our deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesday. On-campus rates are $3 for the first 35 words and $1 per each additional 20 words. Off-campus rates are $5 for the first 35 words and $1 per each additional 20 words. For more information, call Millie Eidsvaag at The Concordian advertising office: (218) 299-3827. The Concordian: 299-3286. OLSEN & IVAN FROM 1 Curiosity motivation for Olsen’s travels INT’L ED. FROM 1 Showcase a way for students to find out about Concordia’s study abroad opportunities regular campus apartments, so therefore it costs more to live in them, O’Connor said. One campus rumor sug-gests that Concordia does not allow students coming from low-income families to live in the townhouses. “Things get started and never die,” O’Connor said. She and Meier insist that Concordia would never pre-vent anyone from living in the townhouses. “There is no way that Concordia could not allow someone to live in the town-houses based on his or her income,” Meier said. True, some students may choose not to live in the townhouses because the cost is more, O’Connor said, but that does not mean they are restricted from living there. Only three of the town-house residents are interna-tional students. International students make up six percent of the total student popula-tion. Those students have more expenses to worry about, O’Connor said. Sixty-five percent of the townhouse residents are women, and 35 percent are men. This ratio is similar to the gender make-up of Concordia’s total student population. Osborne and his room-mates live in the only quad reserved for male students. “I guess it’s probably fair, since the percentages accu-rately represent the campus,” he said. “But I also know we lucked out.” where it’s clear blue sky and then Boom! —You’re in a storm,” Olsen said. “The clouds just build and build and build.” Olsen and the other pas-sengers actually flew through the eye of Hurricane Ivan four times, from four different quad-rants. “What they’re doing is getting the info out so we can have the least amount of damage, the least amount of injury,” Olsen said. The latest numbers esti-mate that Ivan has taken over 60 lives. “It’s difficult to reconcile the thrill of the ride…with the fact that people are dying down there.” Olsen flew over Cuba, hit hard by the hurricane. “You can’t see a govern-ment down there, you can’t see a history,” Olsen said. “It’s a beautiful island from 10,000 feet.” Olsen wasn’t alone on the flight. He joined a local television crew and people from CNN on the once in a lifetime trip. “The energy in the plane was very high,” Olsen said. “None of us knew what to expect.” That doesn’t mean that they were strapped into their seats the whole eight hours in the air. “We had amazing access,” Olsen said. “We could stand on the deck…. it was really remarkable that by the end of the trip, we could stand longer by the window.” As an English professor, Olsen stresses the impor-tance writing has had in his life. “My writing has evolved over a long time,” Olsen said. “(In my first book) they were perfectly competent, horrid stories. But over time, I became interested in travel, in extreme travel and adven-ture.” Olsen doesn’t think that he is a daredevil. “It’s not really that I’m a risk taker,” Olsen said. “It’s that these people do the things on the edge of their profession and that has always intrigued me.” Olsen believes that these encounters fuel his writing. “Any good writer needs to be driven by curiosity,” Olsen said. “And then the desire to articulate. We’ve all been in love, so why do we still read Shakespeare?” Maybe it’s this inquisi-tiveness that led him to the C-130 this past Sunday. “I’m not a pilot,” Olsen said, “You look at pilots and you think, ‘I want to be there, I want do that.’” It is this very curiosity that has driven Olsen to write about adventure and travel since he was a boy. “Tornadoes, thunder-storms, and hurricanes have always fascinated me,” Olsen said. “I grew up reading National Geographic.” Now as a teacher, he feels it is imperative to con-tinue to write about what captivates him. “I’m not worth my salt as a writing instructor if I don’t write,” Olsen said. Olsen’s thirst for adven-ture hasn’t been quenched by his latest foray. He’d like to document his travels in a variety of different set-tings, anything from ice climbing to entering a vol-cano to going to Antarctica. “If they offered me a seat on the space shuttle, I’d be there.” the May Seminar are Don Rice and Hank Tkachuk, Communication professors, leading the “International Communication and Exploring International Media” seminar. Instead of having the two different seminars alternate over sep-arate years, they merged them into one. Students will be creating a documentary while in each city, focusing on social issues visually. “We are like fun personi-fied,” said Tkachuk, describ-ing the seminar to a student. Some students who have already been on an Exploration Seminar, like senior Mike Hanson, now want to go on a May Seminar. “Don’t wait for the inter-national flavor to come to you, go to it,” senior Lauren Kennedy said. “I am looking forward to the King Arthur Exploration Seminar. I have been looking forward to it since last spring when it was finalized,” junior Amy Urberg said. Sophomore Andrea Smith is a student who can-not get enough of the travel abroad experience. After attending a Theatre May Seminar last year, she wants to do a semester abroad. “Now I’m addicted,” Smith said. Further information on the Exploration and May Seminar trips are available in the permanent kiosk in Knutson Center and at the Normandy. A possible new aspect for the Exploration Seminar students is a Photo Contest. Students may have the opportunity after their seminar to submit photos and have them judged by the student body. CONFERENCE FROM 1 Annual tri-college event explores women’s roles in public activity; registration still open Body politics and sexual politics will be the topics of two additional panel ses-sions. Two lesbian couples will share their experiences and struggles. While the interns do most of the work in organ-izing the conference, they also have a bit of assistance. Michelle Lelwica and Susan Larson, Concordia women’s studies department co-chairs, serve as resources and guides, as do various professors at MSU-M and NDSU. Although these advisors are there for assis-tance, Lelwica said the con-ference is “run for and by the students.” Together, students and their faculty advisors devel-oped a theme. This year’s premise is “The Personal is Political; Feminist Notions of Activism.” It was chosen for its timeliness as the presidential election is approaching. “It is especially impor-tant to remember that the decisions we make about politics in the public sphere have a profound impact on our personal lives,” Lelwica said. The message will speak about how policies indirect-ly affect the lives of both men and women, Belgum- Gabbert said. Both Belgum- Gabbert and Lelwica are concerned with the issue of women’s roles in personal relationships reflecting their roles in society. “What we do in our per-sonal lives has a larger political impact, just as what we do in our personal lives influences larger polit-ical ideas,” Lelwica said. “This is especially true when it comes to gender issues. The conference will take place in Birkeland Lounge and Offutt Concourse. To register, contact Lund via email (kslund@cord.edu). Include name, class, and ID num-ber. TOWNHOUSES FROM 1 Concordia does not exclude low-income students from townhouses, O’Connor says George W. Bush has proven to have strong, steady leadership. He has consistently voted in favor of strengthening our mili-tary and giving our troops the essential equipment to be safe and to complete their missions, unlike his opponent, who said “I actually voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it.” No flip-flop here, ladies and gentlemen! I'm sure our troops are very thankful that Kerry expects them to win a war without essential body armor or weapons. Gee, that's comforting. Bush dismantled the Taliban in Afghanistan, removed Saddam Hussein from power and put an end to his weapons pro-gram. The action he took has made the world safer and millions of people now have a chance to be free. Despite what the lib-erals say, we did not need France, Germany or the United Nations in order to succeed. For if it were up to them, Saddam Hussein would still be in power. John Kerry brought this mess upon himself because he chose to focus on his military record, which is marred with con-troversy over medals and inaccurate accounts of events in Vietnam. Oddly enough, Kerry tries to play the role of a war hero and an anti-war “hero” at the same time. Who is he kid-ding? George W. Bush has accomplished a lot in four years and made our coun-try safer without flaunting medals or claiming to be a war hero (or an anti-war “hero”). Ultimately, Americans want to know what a candidate will do for the future. We know where Bush stands, but do we really know where Kerry stands? Good char-acter, wisdom, strength, and steady leadership make an effective leader, not the number of “Purple Owies” one gets from a four-month tour in Vietnam. Do your country a serv-ice: vote for four more years of steady leadership. WILLIAMS FROM 3 Candidates’ military service isn’t relevant the case of McCain v. Bush, Bush didn’t want Americans to have to pick between two relatively simi-lar ideological candidates because he knew he would lose to McCain’s war record, and thus he shifted the issue. He knew it would be impossible for his hand-picked Republican candi-date to beat Sen. Max Cleland unless he could attack his patriotism. Republicans probably provide plenty of reasons, maybe even some researched, why Kerry would not be fit for com-mand. When it comes to the issue though there are arguments of factual truth on both sides and all Republicans can provide is rhetoric. I am not here to spout off liberal rhetoric but to leave you all asking the question that voters should as well: When it comes to Vietnam, who went? Both were privileged young men who didn’t have to go. But one signed up. One did not. John Fitzgerald Kerry went to Vietnam and served in that war while George W. Bush went and served in the Air National Guard of Texas. When it comes to the Vietnam issue there is one person in my mind who is patriotic and fit to lead the country due to his dedica-tion to the country and that is John Kerry. HAILER FROM 3 Candidates’ military service is relevant Abu Ghraib faced, I’d confess to anything from the assassi-nation of Tupac Shakur to Hurricane Andrew (neither of which I’m guilty of, by the way). Besides, if the informa-tion from the torture victim has a high probability of being accurate, it needs to be investigated and verified, not assumed correct. At any rate, these terrorists have such a deep-seeded hatred for the United States and are committed to our demise that it’s rather unlikely that they would just give law enforcement viable informa-tion anyway. Think of it this way, these are the kind of people who are willing to spend years of planning an elaborate attack; one that involves ending their own lives in a horrendous explo-sion caused by airplanes crashing into buildings—I doubt any of them would simply give up the informa-tion to their scheme after a couple of punches to the face. Most importantly, America should not sink down to the level of torture. It involves the sickest most despicable form of treatment human beings are capable of, and I think, at least I hope, we’re beyond that. If America loses such fundamental values as respecting human dignity, than the terrorists have already succeeded. Similar to Dershowitz’s hailed arguments, the Bush Administration justifies inflicting pain on other peo-ple because of the threat of another deadly attack. But they forget that 9-11 hap-pened because these terror-ists, who were legal immi-grants, were not screened well by the INS and urgent infor-mation was not properly communicated between the CIA and FBI; nor was the threat of Al-Qaeda taken seri-ously when Richard Clarke tried to warn the Bush Administration months before the attacks. We need to ask ourselves would the torture of random immigrants have saved us from Sept. 11? Or would competent, thorough investi-gation? The bottom line is that the ineffective and inhu-mane practice of torture doesn’t save us from terror-ists. It makes us terrorists. TAREEN FROM 3 Would torture have saved us from Sept. 11? Concordia GPA distribution Source: Spring 2004 Student Involvement Survey QuickStats Interested in joining our political discourse? We’d love to have you. Letters to the Editor - about 250 words - and full-length columns - about 600 words - should be directed to Opinions Editor Badar Tareen: badar@tareen.net
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