Volume 86, Issue 12
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
ROYALTY BECOMES SINGLE Prince Harry’s long-term girlfriend breaks it off. Look inside to see why.
The student newspaper of the University of New Haven since 1938 UNH ATHLETICS PREPARES TO GROW Chargers of all shapes and sizes get ready to join the Northest-10 Conference.
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PUT ON YOUR COWBOY BOOTS Find out about how MEISA went country with its Rockabilly show.
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By SARA COLLINS
columbinus Touches UNH
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WEST HAVEN— UNH’s recent production of columbinus gave audiences insight into the American teenage psyche that is at once telling, disturbing, and moving. The play follows the events leading up to, and including the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. The script tastefully ab-
In addition to gaining support from celebrities, the writer strike has spread to Broadway.
two shooters, but the universal high school environment which relegates adolescents to alienating labels and social cliques. An interesting aspect of the play is the frequent transition from interaction between to inA KERI COMEROSKI PHOTO characters The cast of columbinus performs on Sunday, Nov. 11. ternal monologues stains from any tone or shock-value or exploitation expressing the characters' dialogue that could be con- and, instead, examines not strued as being used for only the motivations of the See PERFORMANCE page 4
Scientists and Officials Discuss Final Climate Change Report
By ARTHUR MAX THE STRIKE GATHERS MORE FOLLOWERS
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VALENCIA, Spain— The U.N.'s top climate official challenged world policy– Page 8 makers Monday to map out a path to curb climate change, charging that to igINDEX nore the urgency of global warming would be "nothArts & Entertainment ing less than criminally irPage 8 responsible." Bulletin Board Yvo de Boer issued his Page 15 warning at the opening of a weeklong conference that Word of the Week Page 9 will complete a concise guide on the state of global Editorials warming and what can be Page 6 done to stop the Earth from Fun & Games overheating. It is the fourth Page 12 and last report issued this National/World News year by the IntergovernPage 3 mental Panel on Climate Change, co-winner of this New Haven News Page 4 year's Nobel Peace prize. Environmentalists and Sports Page 10 authors of the report expected tense discussions on Celebrity Gossip what to include and leave Page 11 out of the document, which
is a synthesis of thousands of scientific papers. A summary of about 25 pages will be negotiated line-by-line this week, then adopted by consensus. The document to be issued Saturday sums up the scientific consensus on how rapidly the Earth is warming and the effects already observed; the impact it could have for billions of people; and what steps can be taken to keep the planet's temperature from rising to disastrous levels. The IPCC already has established that the climate has begun to change because of the greenhouse gases emitted by humans, said de Boer, director of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. Everyone will feel its effects, but global warming will hit the poorest countries hardest and will "threaten the very survival" of some people, he said. "Failing to recognize
the urgency of this message and act on it would be nothing less that criminally irresponsible" and a direct attack on the world's poorest people, De Boer said. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is to attend the launch of the report, which will provide the factual underpinning for a crucial meeting next month in Bali, Indonesia. That conference will begin exploring a new global strategy to curb greenhouse gas emissions after the 2012 expiration of the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol, the landmark agreement that assigned binding reduction targets to 36 countries. De Boer, citing agreements reached earlier this year by European and other industrial countries, said political inertia seemed to be disappearing in the lead-up to Bali. But he cautioned that governments must come up with the political will to complete a
post-2012 road map. "It will not cost the earth to save the Earth," as little as 0.1 percent of the gross global product for 30 years, said Janos Pasztor, of the U.N. Environmental Program, a parent body of the IPCC. Pasztor said this week's report, synthesizing the three scientific reports released earlier this year, will be the one document that the thousands of delegates at Bali "will be packing in their suitcases and carrying in their back pockets." The top IPCC leaders will be in Oslo accepting the Nobel prize on Dec. 10, just when the Bali meeting reaches its stride with the final ministerial-level meetings. But panel chairman Rajendra Pachauri said technology will enable them to stay in touch. Pachauri called this week's meeting a "waterSee CLIMATE page 5