Thursday, March 29, 2007
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The Loquitur Y o u S p e a k, W e L i s t e n
www.theLoquitur.com
Radnor, Pa.
Vol XLVIII, Issue 21
COMING TO AMERICA
Media multitaskers become popular NICOLE OSUCH
ASST. MANAGING EDITOR NAO722@CABRINI.EDU
According to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, when students are sitting in front of their computers “studying,” they’re also doing something else 65 percent of the time. Ryan Kaysen, a freshman business administration major, admits that when he sits down to study he often turns his iPod on, flips television channels while simultaneously sending a few instant messages to his friends finding out what’s going on later. The report found that the number of “media multitaskers” like Kaysen has increased from 16 percent to 26 percent. The report also showed that girls were more likely to media multitask than boys.
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Refugee from the war in Sudan, now living in Chesnut Hill, Pa.
MEGHAN HURLEY
WRITING COACH/WEB EDITOR MLH722@CABRINI.EDU
They came from all over the world—Sudan, Cambodia and Palestine, but they all had the same objective. They wanted to live free. Peng C. Huang came to the United States from Cambodia to escape the communist regime in 1979. He came with his wife and five young children. “My dream was to get out of that regime and to have all my kids have an education. That’s my dream,” Huang said. “If I
stayed in Cambodia, there’s no way they could have that education. That why I say get out of the country.” After being driven from his home by the communists to the countryside and being forced into farm labor, Huang decided that he needed to get out, not only for his sake, but for the sake of his children’s future. “[I went] not because I don’t like my country, but because my country doesn’t like me,” Huang said. Huang trekked through the jungle for four days to Thailand to escape the communists. “After the communists came, everything belonged to the communists. Your house is not your
GHADA AYOUB
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Refugee from the Israeli-Palestinian war, now living in Rosemont, Pa.
house anymore so they could do whatever they want. I had my house in the city…my house somebody took. It’s not my house anymore,” Huang said. Huang came to the United States through the United Nations refugee program. He chose the United States because he knew his children would receive a good education and there were no communist influences. “As soon as I get into this country, I feel very happy to be here and thankful that I get out of the mess that I had in Cambodia,” Huang said. “Four years in the communists is like a hundred years…it’s very long…four years seems not too long, but for us, the life that you have with the communists is very long. I was very thankful to get out of that and very grateful to get here.” Michael Kutch escaped the war-torn African country of Sudan when he was five years old. He left during the civil war between the Sudanese and the Islamic government in 1989 when his village was attacked.
He walked from Sudan to Ethiopia, an estimated 600mile trek equivalent to walking from Cabrini to Myrtle Beach, S.C. After three months of walking, Kutch and other members of his village who has escaped the attack arrived at a refugee camp. “I walked across the desert – and we had to cross the Sahara Desert,” Kutch said. “It was hot, windy, almost nothing to eat; [you could] barely see anything moving.” Kutch moved around to several other refugee camps in Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya, where he attended secondary school. “Before, when I was young, I had to grow up with those flashbacks; with those memories of people dying, people being shot, people being attacked by crocodiles crossing rivers and being scared, being terrified of having to deal with the shooting
REFUGEES, page 3
No Child Left Behind Act up for renewal ELIZABETH KERSTETTER STAFF WRITER
ELK722@CABRINI.EDU
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Sports Golf Page 15
Refugee from the war in Cambodia, now living in King of Prussia, Pa.
Three refugees express the hardships they faced in their past, all with the same goal in mind: freedom.
WHAT’S INSIDE
A&E ‘Saved By The Bell’ Page 12
MICHAEL KUTCH
Refugees & Freedom
TASKS, page 3
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PENG C. HUANG
English and math. Memorize
The words ‘English’ and ‘math’ have been buzz words around public schools for the last five years and rightly so. If math and English were ignored over the past five years, chances are, the school that ignored them lost its government funding. In 2002 President Bush enacted his signature education law entitled No Child Left Behind Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The act calls for high levels of academic success
in areas identified as ‘core’ subject areas, most specifically mathematics and English. Since the act was passed there have been numerous bills brought to Congress calling for changes in the law. In response to the complaints, Congress created The Commission on NCLB headed by Secretary Tommy G. Johnson and Governor Roy E. Barnes. The commission was formed to investigate and research implementation of the act and find potential problems or successes of the law. “While our work has uncov-
SCHOOLS, page 3
EMILY BUERGER/PHOTO EDITOR
Located in Washington D.C., the U.S. Department of Education works to ensure equal access to education and strives promote educational excellence throughout the nation.