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wednesday, april 10, 2013 volume 112, issue 134
Inside Coverage
Road to the Final Four Columnists discuss NU basketball’s future
10 It’s just a little UNL crush Separate Greek Crushes page shows arrogance
4 Raise your voice Nebraska high school choir girls sing at UNL
2 Wired education Professors spar with ‘College 2.0’ proponents
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Board-talk empire
Lincoln members of the Skate for Change listen to a story from Timothy Arandus last Saturday. “I just quit. I got tired of making people money. I’m tired of working too hard for a guy who is getting twice as much,” Arandus said. Skate for Change is a two-year-old program that allows skaters to reach out to the local low-income and homeless community in Lincoln with a meal or just an open ear.
Lost in time ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
During World War I, about 1.5 million Armenians were massacred in what is now Turkey.
BOSNIAN GENOCIDE
About 200,000 Bosnians were killed between 1992 and 1995.
DARFUR GENOCIDE The first genocide in the 21st century is marked by mass slaughter and rape of Darfuri men, women and children in Western Sudan. The killings began in 2003 and continue today. As of 2013, more than 480,000 people have been killed, and more than 2.8 million people have been displaced.
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA ARMENIA
SUDAN RWANDAN GENOCIDE The massacre in Rwanda of the ethnic Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu peoples began in early 1994 and continued for approximately 100 days. Estimates claim between 800,000 to 1 million were killed and another 2 million refugees packed camps in neighboring Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda and former Zaire.
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SOURCE: World Without Genocide
UNL Harris Center to host symposium for students, scholars to discuss forgotten genocides staff report Dn
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Students and scholars will gather Wednesday for “Forgotten Genocides: New Perspectives on a Less Known History” in the Nebraska Union Auditorium at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Bedross Der Matossian, an assistant history professor at UNL, said the symposium’s goal is to inform the general public on genocides of the 20th century other than the Holocaust and to gather scholars to bring new perspectives to understudied genocides. “Most of these genocides occurred in the 20th century after the Holocaust,” Der Matossian said. “When the whole idea of ‘never again’ was a major thing.” Der Matossian will speak about concentration camps during the Armenian Genocide, which is not yet officially recognized as genocide. The United States has largely avoided labeling the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians killed in 1915 at the hands of
It’s a unique opportunity to hear professors talking about their expertise on the respective genocides.”
Bedross Der Matossian unl assistant history professor
Ottoman Turks. Leaders fear upsetting NATO-ally Turkey, which disputes genocide charges, according to an April 2012 report by ABC News. People around the world will commemorate those Armenians on April 24 this year, said Der Matossian, who encouraged everyone to attend the symposium. “It’s a unique opportunity to hear professors talking about their expertise on the respective genocides,” Der Matossian said. “Despite the fact that the subject is depressing – it is about mass killings – it is the duty of every student to learn about these genocides as part of their undergraduate and graduate education and pass on that information to future generations.”
David Forsythe, a professor emeritus of political science, will kick off the symposium at 9 a.m. with a discussion on international legal framework set up prohibiting atrocities and the kind of actions leaders, organizations and activists can take to oppose them. Two panels follow the lecture, and the symposium will end at 4 p.m. The symposium is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by UNL’s Harris Center for Judaic Studies, with additional support from the Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Program and the Department of History. news@ dailynebraskan.com
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UNL teaching faculty win NU award tammy bain dn The University of NebraskaLincoln Department of Teaching, Learning and Teaching Education was recognized last week for outstanding teaching at the University of Nebraska. On April 4, the department received the 2013 University-wide Departmental Teaching Award, which is given to one teaching department annually between the four Nebraska universities: UNL, the University of Nebraska at Kearney, the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. A press release for the award said the department displayed growing global engagement through various international student-teaching exchanges, explored opportunities to meet 21st-century needs in technology, worked with multiple departments across campus for enhanced development and had a reputation for undergraduate research quality. Thomas McGowan, a teaching, learning and teacher education professor at UNL, helped write the nomination for his department. He said the department went above and beyond the award’s initiatives. “These are things we do every day,” he said. McGowan gathered information about the department to write the nomination with fellow faculty members Susan Wunder and Ruth Heaton, he said. But the award, which a university department can only receive
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Skidmore professor reflects on 9/11 Social psychology professor explains how terrorism affects beliefs, culture Layla Younis DN Sheldon Solomon is only alive today because of a “freak accident” in his schedule. Solomon, a professor of social psychology at Skidmore College, would pass by the World Trade Center in New York City several days a week while he was commuting from Brooklyn to his school. But his schedule changed, and he didn’t take his usual route on Sept. 11, 2001. A week after 9/11, Solomon got phone calls asking him to write books and discuss how psychology, terror management and self-esteem related to the terrorist attacks. He spoke to a crowd of about 50 at the University of NebraskaLincoln Tuesday. Solomon discussed his experiences on 9/11 and how people defended their own culture when reminded of mortality for the “Se-
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