Volume 91, Issue 7 | March 23, 2011
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Libya Action Could Last ‘a while,’ Official Says
of heavy fighting last week — though now had been abandoned ASSOCIATED PRESS –––––––––––––––––––––––––– by regime forces. There, a power station hit by shelling on ThursZWITINA, Libya – The inter- day was still burning, its blacknational military intervention in ened fuel tank crumpled, with Libya is likely to last “a while,” a flames and black smoke pouring top French official said Monday, out. echoing Moammar Gadhafi’s warning of a long war ahead as rebels, energized by the strikes on their opponents, said they were fighting to reclaim a city under siege from the Libyan leader’s forces. Burned-out tanks and personnel carriers littered the main desert road leading southwest from Benghazi, the rebel’s capital in the east of the country — the remains of a pro-Gadhafi force that had been besieging the city Oil prices held above $102 a until it was pounded by interna- barrel after the second night of tional strikes the past two nights. allied strikes in the OPEC nation Rebel fighters in Benghazi raised fears of prolonged fighthad now pushed down that high- ing that has already slowed Libway to the outskirts of the city yan oil production to a trickle. of Ajdabiya, which pro-Gadhafi Henri Guaino, a top adviser forces have surrounded and to the French president, said two been pounding with artillery and nights of bombing runs and misstrikes since last week. The reb- sile attacks had hobbled Libya’s els swept into the nearby oil port air defenses, stalled Gadhafi’s of Zwitina, just northeast of the troops and all but ended attacks city, which was also the scene on civilians. A cruise missile late By RYAN LUCAS & HADEEL AL-SHALCHI
Sunday blasted Gadhafi’s residential compound near his iconic tent, and fighter jets destroyed a line of tanks moving on the rebel capital. It was not known where Gadhafi was when the missile hit Sunday, but it seemed to show
election of a new Pope in 1978. As white smoke rose from the –––––––––––––––––––––––––– Sistine Chapel’s chimney, John Paul II came out onto the balThe Vatican kicked off the cony, greeted by the cheers of countdown to the beatification thousands gathered in St. Peof Pope John Paul the II with a ter’s Square. Speaking Italian, By ELIZABETH OLZINSKI STAFF WRITER
YouTube video of his first papal speech. The video, a series of clips from the first year of his 27-year pontificate, featured his famous first papal speech in which he asked the crowd to correct him if he made any mistakes while speaking Italian. The first clip in the video shows then-Cardinal Karol Wojtyla entering the Vatican for the
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he broke tradition and addressed the crowd, saying, “if I make mistakes, if I make mistakes you will correct me.” John Paul was one of the most popular popes in the history of the Catholic Church, and also one of the most travelled. He visited 129 countries during See VATICAN page 7
plies. With the roads still sprinkled with debris, transporting –––––––––––––––––––––––––– resources and other foreign aid has proven to be cumbersome. Called “a great test for all of “I have no words to express my the people of Japan” by Japanese feelings. I lost my mind. We will Prime Minister Naoto Kan, the have to start from zero,” one lo9.0-magnitude earthquake and cal, Hidemitsu Ichikawa, said subsequent tsunami that ravaged about his destroyed home. In adJapan on March 11 have painted dition to the lack of resources, By LIZ DE LA TORRE STAFF WRITER
visions of destroyed homes and echoed stories of homelessness, AN AP PHOTO fear, and panic within the people. Swallowing farming districts that he is not safe. Guaino, asked how long the and cities in northeastern Jaallied efforts would continue, re- pan, the tsunami also cautioned the Pacific coasts of North and plied simply: “A while yet.” The U.N. resolution authoriz- South America, as well as Haing international military action waii. Currently, the death toll in Libya not only sets up a no-fly in Japan has reached 7,500 with zone but allows “all necessary another 2,611 people wounded measures” to prevent attacks and 11,700 missing. Since the natural disasters, on civilians. Since the airstrikes began, the number of civilians thousands of people have been fleeing Libya has decreased as evacuated while others remain See LIBYA page 5 in shelters and have little or no access to food, water, electricity, gasoline, and medical sup-
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Death Toll Climbs in Wake of Japan’s Disasters
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the “near freezing” weather in Japan is exacerbating health concerns. Kazuhiro Fujino, Captain from the Maritime Self-Defense force, agrees: “There is no medicine. Nothing. My biggest fear is that a flu epidemic is going to break out. There would be little we could do to stop it. It would take many more lives.” But perhaps, the biggest obstacle complicating the recovery process is the nuclear concerns surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, which was severely struck and affected by the
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The First-Year Success Center is Here to Help! By ISAAK KIFLE STAFF WRITER
–––––––––––––––––––––––––– Despite orientation and the various programs made available to students at the university, many students want an additional resource to aid in their transition to college. Whether this involves having a mentor to serve as an additional source of support, receiving some coaching on how to manage yourself in college, a few additional programs to attend when not in class, or even just having a place to do homework in between classes, many students take these small things into consideration when evaluating how satisfying their overall experience at UNH is. To ensure that those additional resources are provided, the FirstYear Success Center was created. The First-Year Success Center, located in Maxcy Hall Suite 106, directly underneath the Office of Academic Services, was established to provide additional academic, social, and personal support through programming,
student success coaching, firstyear mentors, and the First-Year Call Center. Felecia Edwards, the director of the center, explains that the university decided to take an approach “more pro-
runs many of the programs put on by the center. From there, the First-Year Success Center began working with faculty from different departments and bringing UNH students to the team.
active than reactive” by creating the center to foster the academic growth of students and connect them to faculty, staff, and university resources that can support their success. It began with Edwards for the fall 2010 semester, until Aschlee Cole joined at the end of September as a Student Success Coach, who also
Student Success Coaching consists of a series of personalized one-on-one meetings tailored to the needs of the student, which could include time management, goal setting, connecting with professors, and other topics relevant to the student. The First-Year Call Center helps See SUCCESS page 7