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THIS WEEK: DEC 5. 2006 1CORADDI RELEASED ON TIME A&E PAGE 6 SPARTANS SEND TWO TO MLS COMBINE SPORTS PAGE 8 WEBJUNKIE: A LITTLE ADVICE FOR THE GUYS LIFE PAGE 10 STAFF EDITORIAL: HATE THE LIFE SECTION? OPINIONS PAGE 4 2007: A NEW YEAR, AND A NEW CAROLINIAN PAGE 13 FREE THEaronnian THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF UNCG www.caro inianon ine.com National AIDS Week ended in Greensboro with the Winter Walk for AIDS, a community event beginning at War Memorial Auditorium and winding through downtown. Iraqi general speaks about WMD's, Iraq War Kevin A. Purcell Staff Writer Iraqi General Georges Sada, a lead consul-tant for Iraqi military recon-struction, gave a heavily adver-tised speech in the auditorium Sada of the UNCG Science Building last Thursday evening. The event was put on by the College Republicans and was sponsored by multiple off-cam-pus organizations. Daryn Iwicki, the president of the College Republicans, opened by giv-ing thanks to a list of organizations and a brief introduction for Sada. Sada began his speech by thanking UNCG for having him as well as the audience of about 100 for their atten-dance. "It's a great honor for me to be here," he said. He continued by giving a short his-tory of his homeland, Iraq, and told a little about his accomplishments. Among these were his book titled "Saddam's Secrets: How an Iraqi Gen-eral Defied & Survived Saddam Hus-sein," his studies in the United States, Britain and the U.S.S.R., and his mili-tary history. He then told detailed stories of his relationship with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Sada served as an advisor to Hussein and was the head of the Iraqi Air Force during Husse-in's reign. These stories ranged from giving unwanted military advice to Hussein to almost being killed by U.S. forces while at Hussein's residence. Sada then touched on the issue of WMD's in Iraq. Sada spoke of his knowledge of the transportation of Iraq's WMD's to Syria in 2002 before UN investigations as well as threats from Saddam to attack the US with biological and nuclear weapons. During questions, Sada gave the oft avoided answer for a plan in Iraq. "It is possible to establish democ-racy," he said. He suggested Ameri-can troops should stay in Iraq only until the government and military are strong. "Americans should get out from Sunni and Shi'a (fighting] and leave it to Iraq... if there are sacrifices, let us make them." The night concluded with refresh-ments and a book signing by Sada. After several controversial choices for events over the last few years, stu-dents from all political parties agreed that Sada's speech was appropriate. "His qualifications, expertise re-garding military tactics and local his-tory, and personal relationship with Saddam made him a superb choice," said UNCG student Keegan Smith. "I gained quite a bit from hearing him on Thursday night." AIDS week hits home for black community Luke Mclntyre Life Editor The crowd in the EUC Auditorium Wednesday was lively and respon-sive, until Jason Robertson dropped a bombshell. "One in 250 people in the United States have HIV. One in three people who have it don't know it." The crowd's sudden silence revealed how serious the issue being discussed was: AIDS in the black community. As part of World AIDS Week, which culminated on Dec. 1 with World AIDS Day, the Wellness Center and the National Pan-Hellenic Council co-sponsored a presentation on HIV and AIDS awareness, emphasizing the diseases' outbreak in the black com-munity in past years. The presenta-tion was given by Robertson, Wellness Coordinator for the Wellness Center at UNCG. "[AIDS] went from a gay, white male disease in the 1980s," said Rob-ertson, "to something more affecting the African-American community. "African-Americans make up 13 percent of the population, but they're 48 percent of the AIDS population." This is a problem on a national level, explained Robertson, but also a problem on college campuses. He referenced a study done by UNC Chapel Hill which demonstrated that between 2000 and 2003, 84 cases of HIV were diagnosed among college students in North Carolina. Of that 84,73 were black males. Robertson also stressed education about the spread of disease by intra-venous drug use. "One of my areas of specialty is sexual health. The other is substance abuse. You can't look at one without the other." Intravenous drug use is the third-leading cause of HIV infec-tion among black males, and second among black females, said Robertson. There are other risk factors apply-ing to students in North Carolina as well. "The South is the largest demo-graphic of AIDS cases [in the Unit-ed States]," said Robertson. Part of that, he added, can be attributed to education. "When you're in high school, what form of sex education do you get?" he asked the crowd. Several voices from the audience answered, "Abstinence-only." Robertson pointed out that absti-nence is the most effective method of preventing sexually transmitted diseases, but said the damage is done SEE AIDS PAGE TWO Christmas tree contest merges campus, community Jeff Loslus Staff Writer On Sunday, Dec. 3, the Student Alumni Ambassadors hosted a Christ-mas Tree Decorating Contest called "Branches of Love, From a Spartan," in the Faculty Center. The inaugural event was sopho-more and Director of Campus Pro-grams Amanda Peck's idea. "In my hometown we used to give trees away to the homeless," said Peck. "I wanted to bring the idea to UNCG." The competition featured 10 tree decorating teams, competing for prizes in three different categories: Best Homemade, Spartan Spirit and Overall Tree. The Best Homemade ornaments tree award went to team Circle K, a group made up of community ser-vice club members, like a college level Kiwanis. Their tree featured colorful paper chains with popcorn and cran- SEE TREES PAGE TWO PHOTOS BY JERRY ARNOLD/THE CAROLINIAN UNCG student organiza-tions turned out Sunday (left) to decorate trees that would then be do-nated to needy fami-lies around the Triad. The tree pictured above won the award for most Spartan Spirit. THE CAROLINIAN ESTABLISHED 1919 VOL LXXXVII ISSUE 16 CONTACT US the_carolinian@hotmail.com PHONE: 336-334-5752 FAX: 336-334-3518 DIRECTORY News Classifieds Corrections Opinions A&E Sports Life 2-3,12 24 4-5 6-7,13 8-9 10-11 ON THE WEB AT: fio ftookmjrVi look _*> 9 O © " i • 'in ii ii H 'i tin II "
Object Description
Title | The Carolinian [December 5, 2006] |
Date | 2006-12-05 |
Editor/creator | Lowrance, Chris |
Subject headings |
University of North Carolina at Greensboro--Newspapers College student newspapers and periodicals-- North Carolina--Greensboro Student publications--North Carolina--Greensboro Student activities--North Carolina--History |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The December 5, 2006, issue of The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
Type | Text |
Original format | Newspapers |
Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
Language | eng |
Contributing institution | Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
Publication | The Carolinian |
Rights statement | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
Additional rights information | NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material. |
Object ID | 2006-12-05-carolinian |
Date digitized | 2011 |
Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries |
Digitized by | Creekside Digital |
Sponsor | Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation |
OCLC number | 871559220 |
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Title | Page 1 |
Full text | THIS WEEK: DEC 5. 2006 1CORADDI RELEASED ON TIME A&E PAGE 6 SPARTANS SEND TWO TO MLS COMBINE SPORTS PAGE 8 WEBJUNKIE: A LITTLE ADVICE FOR THE GUYS LIFE PAGE 10 STAFF EDITORIAL: HATE THE LIFE SECTION? OPINIONS PAGE 4 2007: A NEW YEAR, AND A NEW CAROLINIAN PAGE 13 FREE THEaronnian THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF UNCG www.caro inianon ine.com National AIDS Week ended in Greensboro with the Winter Walk for AIDS, a community event beginning at War Memorial Auditorium and winding through downtown. Iraqi general speaks about WMD's, Iraq War Kevin A. Purcell Staff Writer Iraqi General Georges Sada, a lead consul-tant for Iraqi military recon-struction, gave a heavily adver-tised speech in the auditorium Sada of the UNCG Science Building last Thursday evening. The event was put on by the College Republicans and was sponsored by multiple off-cam-pus organizations. Daryn Iwicki, the president of the College Republicans, opened by giv-ing thanks to a list of organizations and a brief introduction for Sada. Sada began his speech by thanking UNCG for having him as well as the audience of about 100 for their atten-dance. "It's a great honor for me to be here," he said. He continued by giving a short his-tory of his homeland, Iraq, and told a little about his accomplishments. Among these were his book titled "Saddam's Secrets: How an Iraqi Gen-eral Defied & Survived Saddam Hus-sein," his studies in the United States, Britain and the U.S.S.R., and his mili-tary history. He then told detailed stories of his relationship with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Sada served as an advisor to Hussein and was the head of the Iraqi Air Force during Husse-in's reign. These stories ranged from giving unwanted military advice to Hussein to almost being killed by U.S. forces while at Hussein's residence. Sada then touched on the issue of WMD's in Iraq. Sada spoke of his knowledge of the transportation of Iraq's WMD's to Syria in 2002 before UN investigations as well as threats from Saddam to attack the US with biological and nuclear weapons. During questions, Sada gave the oft avoided answer for a plan in Iraq. "It is possible to establish democ-racy," he said. He suggested Ameri-can troops should stay in Iraq only until the government and military are strong. "Americans should get out from Sunni and Shi'a (fighting] and leave it to Iraq... if there are sacrifices, let us make them." The night concluded with refresh-ments and a book signing by Sada. After several controversial choices for events over the last few years, stu-dents from all political parties agreed that Sada's speech was appropriate. "His qualifications, expertise re-garding military tactics and local his-tory, and personal relationship with Saddam made him a superb choice," said UNCG student Keegan Smith. "I gained quite a bit from hearing him on Thursday night." AIDS week hits home for black community Luke Mclntyre Life Editor The crowd in the EUC Auditorium Wednesday was lively and respon-sive, until Jason Robertson dropped a bombshell. "One in 250 people in the United States have HIV. One in three people who have it don't know it." The crowd's sudden silence revealed how serious the issue being discussed was: AIDS in the black community. As part of World AIDS Week, which culminated on Dec. 1 with World AIDS Day, the Wellness Center and the National Pan-Hellenic Council co-sponsored a presentation on HIV and AIDS awareness, emphasizing the diseases' outbreak in the black com-munity in past years. The presenta-tion was given by Robertson, Wellness Coordinator for the Wellness Center at UNCG. "[AIDS] went from a gay, white male disease in the 1980s," said Rob-ertson, "to something more affecting the African-American community. "African-Americans make up 13 percent of the population, but they're 48 percent of the AIDS population." This is a problem on a national level, explained Robertson, but also a problem on college campuses. He referenced a study done by UNC Chapel Hill which demonstrated that between 2000 and 2003, 84 cases of HIV were diagnosed among college students in North Carolina. Of that 84,73 were black males. Robertson also stressed education about the spread of disease by intra-venous drug use. "One of my areas of specialty is sexual health. The other is substance abuse. You can't look at one without the other." Intravenous drug use is the third-leading cause of HIV infec-tion among black males, and second among black females, said Robertson. There are other risk factors apply-ing to students in North Carolina as well. "The South is the largest demo-graphic of AIDS cases [in the Unit-ed States]," said Robertson. Part of that, he added, can be attributed to education. "When you're in high school, what form of sex education do you get?" he asked the crowd. Several voices from the audience answered, "Abstinence-only." Robertson pointed out that absti-nence is the most effective method of preventing sexually transmitted diseases, but said the damage is done SEE AIDS PAGE TWO Christmas tree contest merges campus, community Jeff Loslus Staff Writer On Sunday, Dec. 3, the Student Alumni Ambassadors hosted a Christ-mas Tree Decorating Contest called "Branches of Love, From a Spartan," in the Faculty Center. The inaugural event was sopho-more and Director of Campus Pro-grams Amanda Peck's idea. "In my hometown we used to give trees away to the homeless," said Peck. "I wanted to bring the idea to UNCG." The competition featured 10 tree decorating teams, competing for prizes in three different categories: Best Homemade, Spartan Spirit and Overall Tree. The Best Homemade ornaments tree award went to team Circle K, a group made up of community ser-vice club members, like a college level Kiwanis. Their tree featured colorful paper chains with popcorn and cran- SEE TREES PAGE TWO PHOTOS BY JERRY ARNOLD/THE CAROLINIAN UNCG student organiza-tions turned out Sunday (left) to decorate trees that would then be do-nated to needy fami-lies around the Triad. The tree pictured above won the award for most Spartan Spirit. THE CAROLINIAN ESTABLISHED 1919 VOL LXXXVII ISSUE 16 CONTACT US the_carolinian@hotmail.com PHONE: 336-334-5752 FAX: 336-334-3518 DIRECTORY News Classifieds Corrections Opinions A&E Sports Life 2-3,12 24 4-5 6-7,13 8-9 10-11 ON THE WEB AT: fio ftookmjrVi look _*> 9 O © " i • 'in ii ii H 'i tin II " |