Volume 91, Issue 2 | February 2, 2011
the
Charger Bulletin The official student newspaper of the University of New Haven since 1938.
www.ChargerBulletin.com
Egypt’s New Government Announced on State TV
By MAGGIE MICHAEL & HAMZA HENDAWI associated press
–––––––––––––––––––––––––– CAIRO — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak swore in a new Cabinet on Monday, replacing one dissolved as a concession to unprecedented anti-government protests. In the most significant change, the interior minister – who heads internal security forces – was replaced. A retired police general, Mahmoud Wagdi, was named to replace Habib el-Adly, who is widely despised by protesters for brutality shown by security forces. Still, the new Cabinet is unlikely to satisfy the tens of thousands of protesters who have taken to the streets in cities across Egypt the past week demanding nothing short of the ouster of Mubarak and his entire regime. As news of the appointments broke, thousands massed in the protest’s epicenter, Cairo’s central Tahrir Square, broke into chants of “we want the fall of the regime.” “We dont recognize any decisions Mubarak has taken since Jan. 25,” Mostafa el-Naggar, a supporter of prominent reform advocate Mohamed ElBaradei, referring to the first day of the protests. “This is a failed attempt – he is done with.” Mubarak announced the dissolving of the previous govern-
ment late Friday, naming his intelligence chief and close aide Omar Suleiman as vice president and former Air Force general Ahmed Shafiq as prime minister. But protesters immediately rejected the move as an attempt by Mubarak, Egypt’s authoritarian ruler of nearly 30 years, to cling to power. The new line-up of Cabinet ministers announced on state
AN AP PHOTO
television included stalwarts of Mubarak’s regime but purged several of the prominent businessmen who held economic posts and have engineered the country’s economic liberalization policies the past decades. Many Egyptians resented to influence of millionaire politicianmoguls, who were close allies of Mubarak’s son, Gamal, long thought to be the heir apparent for the presidency. In the new Cabinet, Mubarak retained his long-serving defense minister, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi – and gave him an additional title of deputy prime minister – and also kept Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit. But for some posts, Mubarak
Mozilla and Google to Develop “Do Not Track” Tool
By SARA J. DUFORT STAFF WRITER
–––––––––––––––––––––––––– If you have ever worried about your privacy on the internet, or how websites know exactly what advertisements to place on your home screen, then you are not alone. It is a known fact that companies can track where you are going on the web, in order to put a personalize touch to what you are seeing when you are browsing. Yet Mozilla announced that they are working on a privacy tool that would prevent them from doing so. This means that you would be able to go to websites without the fear of being tracked. This privacy tool is still in its infant stage, but Mozilla has begun to explain how they would do this. Currently, in order for such tracking tools to work, companies utilize “cookies” in your internet browser that allow them to see where you go, and even how often. The new system would change a setting in the HTTP header, so that it would block
brought in new blood by naming figures who hold widespread respect in their fields. For example, Gaber Asfour, a prominent literary figure, was named culture minister. He replaced the longest-serving Cabinet member, Farouq Hosni, who had held the post for more than 25 years. Also, Egypt’s most famous archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, was named state minister for antiqui-
this tracking from occurring. Alex Fowler, who is Mozilla’s technology and privacy officer, says that, “When the feature is enabled and users turn it on, websites will be told by Firefox that a user would like to opt-out of online behavior advertising.” Yet there are also challenges that they will face when developing such a tool.
A major problem that Mozilla already foresees is that in order for a tool like this to work, it would require that companies agree to not track the user’s movements. This could be very difficult to do, seeing as they use tracking as a potential source of income. To agree to not track them could mean losing profits, See FIREFOX page 5
ties, a new post. State newspapers on Monday published a sternly worded letter from Mubarak to his new prime minister, Shafiq, ordering him to move swiftly to introduce political, legislative and constitutional reforms. He also appeared to distance himself from the economic policies directed by his son Gamal, widely blamed for causing a wide gap between the rich and poor, for whom economic hardships have deepened. In the letter, Mubarak urged “new economic policies that give maximum care to an economic performance which pays heed to the suffering of the citizens, and lightening their burden.”
U.S. Heart Disease Costs to Triple by 2030
centage will make a phenomenal increase to 40.5 percent for the –––––––––––––––––––––––––– future to come in 2030. Heidenreich also points out As a result of the growing that “we will have an enormous population in today’s society, the financial burden on top of the costs of treating heart disease are disease itself.” With that being estimated to triple by the year said, there is an assumption that 2030, according to researchers. will land researchers in the pit of This will have a major impact not making any new discoveries on individuals trying to afford for this disease between now and medical care and other expenses. 2030, which will slant shifts in With the approximated costs for this disease to currently be around two hundred and seventy three billion dollars per year, it will eventually shoot up to eight hundred AN AP PHOTO and eighteen billion dollars by 2030, as society’s population. shown in recent research. In order to prevent all of this “If our ability to prevent and from happening, researchers and treat heart disease stays where scientists must continue to dewe are right now, costs will vote all of their time into comtriple in 20 years just through ing up with new and more addemographic changes in the vanced technology to cure such population,” Paul Heidenreich, diseases as this one. With this as chair of the AHA expert panel, a primary goal, the chair of the concludes, according to the As- AHA expert panel also quotes, sociated Press. “We were all surprised at the reAs a result of this, the panel markable increase in costs that showed an interesting percent of are expected in the next two de36.9 Americans, who either have cades; we need to continue to coronary heart disease, heart invest resources in the prevenfailure, a high blood pressure tion of disease, the treatment of condition, or a stroke. (All some risk factors and early treatment type of form of heart disease.) of existing disease to reduce that According to this poll, that per- burden.” By KIMBERLY REILLY STAFF WRITER
Text message your news tips and comments to The Charger Bulletin! 1 (270) UNH-NEWS
Tucson Gunman Expected Back in Court Soon ity.” As a teen, he was arrested for possession of marijuana. He –––––––––––––––––––––––––– was also charged with possession of alcohol as a minor after With a bald head, blackened an altercation with his father. eyes, creepy gaze, and smug As a student in Pima Commugrin, the infamous mug shot nity College, he allegedly told a of the Tucson gunman Jared classmate to attach a bomb to a Loughner is a disturbing portrait of someone who is just that: disturbing. In fact, behind the intense stare down by Loughner is someone “soulless who used to scare me” says Ashley Figueroa, a former girlfriend. Jared Loughner, twenty-two years old, opened fire outside a supermarket in Tucson, Arizona, on Jan. 8, wounding thirteen including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the presumed main target, and killing six. Among the dead were U.S. District Court judge John Roll and nine year-old Christina-Taylor Green who was there to learn more about the govern- baby after she had read a poem ment and further develop her po- regarding abortion. On another litical ambitions from Giffords. occasion, he turned hostile beAs for Giffords who was shot in cause he received a grade of B in the head, she recently underwent his Pilates class. He was finally surgery following intensive care suspended when he recorded and is now being moved to a re- a YouTube video in which he hab center in Texas. called his college “unconstituAccording to former teach- tional.” Throughout his time in ers and girlfriends, Loughner Pima, he was probed by campus had shown signs of trouble early police five times. on, described as “creepy” and Using a 9mm Glock pistol culminating in a “dark personal- that he had purchased back in By Liz De La Torre STAFF WRITER
November 2010 for the shooting, he was only successful in buying the ammunition at the second Wal-Mart he visited which reinforces the issue of gun control, how easily he was able to obtain the weapon, and whether or not this catastrophe could have, in
AP Photo
fact, been avoided. Loughner, who had apparently examined famous assassins, solitary confinement, and lethal injection prior to the shooting, faces anywhere from twenty years to life for one count of attempted assassination of a Congress member, two counts of killing a U.S. employee, and two counts of intent to kill U.S. employees. Although See TUSCON page 6