Volume 90, Issue 5 | September 22, 2010
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Recession Pain Still Real Despite End, Obama Says nomic conditions that existed when he took office, Obama said, “The hole was so deep that a lot of people out there are still WASHINGTON – President hurting.” Barack Obama said Monday he He spoke shortly after the Nadoesn’t care that the Great Re- tional Bureau of Economic Recession has been declared over search, a private panel of econoby a group of economists. For the millions of people who are out of work or otherwise struggling, he said, “it’s still very real for them.” Obama denied that he was anti-business or antiWall Street in his economic proposals, commenting mists that dates the beginnings under close questioning during and ends of recessions, said the a town hall-style meeting broad- downturn that began in Decemcast live on CNBC. ber 2007 ended in June 2009. At He offered a mixed verdict 18 months, that makes it the lonon the growing tea party, call- gest recession since World War ing its skepticism of government II. “healthy” but adding, “The chal“Something that took ten lenge of the tea party movement years to create is going to take is to identify specifically ‘What a little more time to solve,” would you do?’” to help turn Obama said. around the economy and proHe participated in the hourduce jobs. long session before heading to The government can’t simply Pennsylvania to raise money for cut taxes on the nation’s wealthi- Democratic Senate candidate est people “and magically think Joe Sestak, who is locked in a things are going to work out,” he tight race for a seat considered said. a must-win for the president’s Focusing on the poor eco- party. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Hopkins Hospital Security in Hot Water
By LIZ DE LA TORRE STAFF WRITER
–––––––––––––––––––––––––– Talk about taking news badly. According to Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III., fifty year-old Paul Warren Pardus opened fire at Johns
going surgery. Around 11 a.m., Pardus went to meet with Dr. Cohen regarding his mother’s maladies. Though details of the discussion have not been made public, Pardus was so upset that he pulled a semiautomatic from his waistband and shot the doctor. Following Par-
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Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, killing his mother and himself after becoming “emotionally distraught and overwhelmed by the news of his mother’s condition” on Thursday, Sept. 16. David B. Cohen, the orthopedic surgeon who was informing Pardus on his mother’s state, was shot once in the abdomen, but is expected to survive after under-
dus’ three hour hold up in a room shortly after, authorities locked down a small area of the Nelson Building while allowing the rest of the medical center, which is made up of a hospital as well as research and education buildings, to stay accessible. Pardus was later found sprawled on the floor with his mother on the bed, See HOPKINS page 5
The group assembled for the session included large and small business owners, teachers, students and unemployed people. A woman who said she was the chief financial officer for a veterans’ service organization told Obama, “I’m exhausted of
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defending you” and recounted that the times have been hard on her and her family. “I’m disappointed where we are right now,” she said, asking, “Is this my new reality?” Obama told her, “My goal is not to convince you that everything is where it ought to be. It’s not.” Still, Obama said that things were “moving in the right direction” under policies he has put in place. A 30-year old law school graduate who said he couldn’t find a job and couldn’t even make interest payments on his student See RECESSION page 5
Journey to a Hate Free Millennium
wood, Brent has worked on several famous movies, including –––––––––––––––––––––––––– Air Force One, Matilda, and The Shawshank Redemption. BearHate is a powerful thing. It ing witness to all the violence, can tear individuals and groups intolerance and hatred in the naapart, destroy hope and end lives. tion and the world, he created a But when there is hate around, it documentary entitled “Journey is important to Aask yourself an to a Hate Free Millennium: Stoimportant question: are you part ries of Compassion and Hope” By ISAAK KIFLE STAFF WRITER
of the problem, the solution… or are you neither? This was the theme of Journey to a Hate Free Millennium, the presentation put on in Dodds Theater on Wednesday, September 15. The Office of Intercultural Relations, along with the Office of Residential Life, the Office of Student Activities, and the Victimology Club, brought inspirational speaker and Hollywood casting director Brent Scarpo on campus to talk about the hate that has enveloped both college campuses and the country as a whole. During his time in Holly-
that chronicled three critical events that changed America. The first event was the murder of James Byrd Jr., who in June of 1998 was beaten, dragged across the pavement while tied to a chain connected to a moving car, and finally decapitated on a culvert because he was black. The second was the death of Matthew Shephard, who in October of 1998 was tortured and left for dead because he was gay. The third and most famous event was the Columbine High School Massacre of 1999, where teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan KleSee HATE FREE page 4
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Tea Party Movement Protesting from Coast to Coast
but the most notable one would have to be the Tea Party Patriots, –––––––––––––––––––––––––– who claim to have over 2,700 chapters. While all Tea Partiers As another election season is deny the fact that they are an exquickly approaching, there is no tension of the GOP, it has been doubt that activist groups around found that most of them are in the country are gunning to get fact, Republicans. This fact is in their candidates elected. While line with the message they are some simply put ads in newspapers, on television, or have a calling campaign, others are protesting to get their ideas across. The group that has been doing that the most this season would no doubt be the grassroots movement, named “The Tea Party”. Over trying to get across – stop big the past week, there were was government. This is a republia plethora of protests in plac- can ideal, made popular again es like, Saint Louis, Missouri, by the tea party movement, and Washington, DC, and even An- they will not stop protesting unchorage, Alaska. til something is done. So who are these tea parties, Tea Party activists have been and what is their message? There known to be controversial, and is a variety of tea party groups, this fact held true over the past By SARA JANE DUFFORT STAFF WRITER
week, when TV personality, Glen Beck, and former Vice President Candidate, Sarah Palin, held a rally in Alaska, on the ninth anniversary of September 11. Some news stations portrayed this act as disrespectful to those who lost their lives, while Beck and Palin argued that it was just a day that worked for them. Yet Glen Beck and Sarah Palin were not alone in protesting. Many state followers implemented their own protests, including a large one, held in Sacramento, California. Over 4,000 AN AP PHOTO activists attended, many holding signs that said “Congress you’re fired!” and “Let failures fail.” Here, the speakers spoke out against many things including Health Care Reform, the economic stimulus, and President Obama. One of the people in attendance, Leslie See TEA PARTY page 6