Volume 91, Issue 9 | April 6, 2011
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Obama Re-Election Launches With Email, Website
sion, and directed them to his new campaign website where a –––––––––––––––––––––––––– launch video featured clips from supporters talking about their WASHINGTON – Presi- continued backing of the Demodent Barack Obama formally crat. launched his re-election cam“I don’t agree with Obama paign Monday, urging grass- on everything but I respect him roots supporters central to his first White House run to mobilize again to protect the change he’s brought over the past two years. The official start of his second White House bid, in the midst of three wars, a budget fight with Congress, and sluggish economic recovery, comes 20 months before the November 2012 election. “We’ve always known that lasting change wouldn’t come quickly and I trust him,” Ed from North or easily. It never does,” the Carolina says, delivering what’s Democrat said in an e-mail an- certain to become a key part of nouncing his candidacy to more the president’s pitch as he tries than 13 million supporters. “But to re-energize liberal backers as my administration and folks who have criticized some of his across the country fight to pro- policies and independent voters tect the progress we’ve made — who have fled from him in his and make more — we also need first term. to begin mobilizing for 2012, Between now and the eleclong before the time comes for tion, the incumbent Democrat me to begin campaigning in ear- will work to convince a fickle nest.” America that he has delivered He told them he was filing change, made the right moves the necessary paperwork with and earned the chance to conthe Federal Election Commis- tinue the job. He will have to By LIZ SIDOTI
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defend policies that have proven divisive, chief among them his sweeping health care overhaul and his efforts to boost the slowto-rebound economy. Obama announced his bid just as the White House is in a budget standoff with Congress
that could lead to a government shutdown, weeks after the commander in chief directed U.S. military operations to a third major warfront, Libya, and days after the post-recession economy showed more signs of a rebound with a report that the still high unemployment rate had fallen to 8.8 percent. Republicans were quick to criticize the news. The Republican National Committee circulated a research document that accused See RE-ELECTION page 5
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week from April 11 to April 14. Known on Campus as ANAD week, this week is in honor of their philanthropy ANAD, which stands for Anorexia Nervosa & Associated Disorders. Established in 1976, ANAD was the first nonprofit eating disorder organization. This organization seeks to prevent and alleviate the problems of eating disorder, especially including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorders. They strive to educate the general public and professionals in the healthcare field to be more
cause immeasurable suffering for individuals and their families, and have reached epidemic levels in America. Seven to ten million women and one million men currently have an eating disorder. All parts of society are affecting, including men and women, young and old, rich and poor, all ethnicities, and all socio-economic levels. Even though eating disorders are rampant in our society, few states in the nation have adequate programs or services to combat anorexia nervosa, bulimia and compulsive eating.
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The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place at the Seton Art Gallery
ribbean Student Association put ISAAK KIFLE on their annual fashion show for By STAFF WRITER –––––––––––––––––––––––––– the opening of Caribbean Week. –––––––––––––––––––––––––– “Runway International” was The David A. Beckerman the theme of the show, and The Seton Art Gallery’s fiRecreational Center looked throughout the night, the audinothing like what most students ence could see why. The models nal exhibit of the year explores at the University of New Haven who participated in this event the ways humans interact with nature and was born out of a sense of awe about the natural world. Also notable, however, is that the exhibit is curated by UNH students. The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place is an exhibit of works that examine views of nature as it reveals itself to humans, possibly revealing something about human nature in the process. Students Laura Cote, Bridget Mcclellan, David Schultz, Brianne Stoehr, Katherine Szabo, and Bonnie Trepanier share a concern about the destructive impact of the interaction of humans and nature. Since September 2010, they have gone to numerous galleries in the were used to seeing on Friday, represented the clothing styles New Haven area. Each student April 1, 2011. The black plat- from Tokyo, Moscow, New picked one or two artists that form stage, assorted lights, doz- York, Paris, the jungle, candy they liked and found a common ens of white chairs, cameras, and land, Miami, and the Caribbean. theme among the works of those projection screens were some Models were seen strutting their artists. The artists whose works of the few things that filled the stuff in the clothing provided by compose The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place are Liz Antle, main basketball courts as the CaBy CORA ST. MARIE
aware of the illnesses relating to eating disorders and methods –––––––––––––––––––––––––– of treatment. ANAD encourages and provides research to invesThe lovely ladies of Delta tigate the causes of disorders, Phi Epsilon of the Gamma Epsi- methods of prevention, types of lon Chapter at the University of treatments, and effectiveness of New Haven will be holding their those treatments. annual Healthy Body Image Eating disorders are wideand Eating Disorder Awareness spread and destructive. They By JOANN WOLWOWICZ
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Lindsay Behrens, Paul Daukas Jr., Anne Doris-Eisner, Barbara Harder, Ann Langdon, Thomas Stavovy, and Matthew Weber. Liz Antle is an artist, writer, and teacher from New Haven. Her works in The Earth is Not
a Cold Dead Place consist of linoleum prints on bark with polyurethane. The prints themselves, such as “Undergrowth III” (2009) from Antle’s “Undergrowth” series, display such images as telephone poles rooted to the ground with tree roots, an extreme look at the future of na-
ture with human influence. Lindsay Behren’s works, such as “Forest” and the aptly-named “Abstract Landscape” are woodcuttings that display scenes of ambiguity and mystery. Paul Daukas Jr. is a printmaker and photographer in West Haven whose contribution to the exhibit is a series of etchings and intaglios, such as “Gardenia” (1991) and the “Napti” series (200710). Anne Doris-Eisner’s acrylic works, including “In the Forest Primeval” (200910), display a frightening distortion of nature, possibly alluding to the effects of humanity’s efforts to utilize the landscape. Barbara Harder’s works in the exhibit, “J Topog C10” (2009) and “J Topog C26” (2011) are monotypes on paper that draw upon her knowledge of Asian style. Ann Langdon’s “Frozen Zone IV” (1999) makes use of acrylic, enamel, and torn canvas to create a simple, yet vivid depiction of the frozen tundra marred by human exploration and exploitation. The etchings of Thomas Stavovy included in the exhibit, See EARTH page 7