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VOLUME 48, ISSUE 28
R&B diva dazzles Biggest Mouth competition
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Daryn Alexus, a senior arts, entertainment, & media management major, won first place in the seventh Annual Biggest Mouth music competition April 24 at the Metro, 3730 N. Clark St., where 12 Columbia bands and artists competed for the $1,000 first place prize and other rewards. The R&B artist and her band performed two original songs, “Tell Me” and “Anywhere.” She will release her new album, “Modern Love Vol. 2” at Shop Columbia in May.
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THE ISRAELI - PALESTINIAN conflict
came to Columbia last week when a documentary detailing the life of people in a West Bank village under Israeli occupation was screened a month after a presentation from the Israeli perspective was indefinitely postponed. Several groups, including the International Student Organization and The Ellen Stone Belic Institute of Women & Gender in the Arts and Media, sponsored an April 23 screening of “5 Broken Cameras” at Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash Ave. The Oscar-nominated documentary by Israeli director Guy Davidi and Palestinian director Emad Burnat follows Burnat and his family as they nonviolently resist
CAMPUS
Tunnel of Oppression returns • page 8
Israeli occupation. But in March, ISO postponed an event proposed by Columbia Hillel, a Jewish faithbased organization on campus that would have included a presentation by Israeli Defense Forces soldiers about what they face every day, according to Benjamin Cohen, junior film & video major and vice president of Columbia Hillel. The “5 Broken Cameras” event concluded with a 40-minute panel discussion between Iymen Chehade, an adjunct professor in the Humanities, History and Social Sciences Department who teaches The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict course, and Lynn Pollack, a member of Jewish Voices for Peace, a national organization that, as stated on its website, “provides a voice for Jews and allies who believe that peace in the Middle East will be achieved
SPORTS & HEALTH
Staffers pick NHL playoff favorites • page 14
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ARTS & CULTURE
A talk with Tavi • page 21
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WHEN THE ACADEMIC year ends
May 18, some Columbia students will be graduating while others will already be thinking about the fall semester. But most students will not be going to Michigan to fly a kite in front of thousands of people. However, Zach Gordon, 21, a junior music major and national champion kite flyer, will be doing just that. According to Gordon, he is scheduled to perform May 17–19 at the 25th Annual Great Lakes Kite Festival in Grand Haven, Mich. Gordon said the performance consists of choreographing his kite to
METRO
City commutes getting longer • page 35
STOCK PHOTO
International conflict stirred up on campus
through justice and full equality for both Palestinians and Israelis.” In a letter to Hillel, Chehade had turned down a request from Cohen that a third panelist representing the official Israeli point of view be included in the program. The discussion at the event became a political dialogue, at which both panelists and many audience members declared their support for nonviolent Palestinian resistance of Israeli occupation. At one point, Chehade implied the Jewish state is perpetuating similar injustice done during World War II when entire ethnic groups were uprooted. He argued that the occupation of the Palestinian territories is illegal under United Nation’s Security Council Resolution 465 (1980). “You cannot take your own population, put them in an area you occupy and then displace the indigenous people,” Chehade contended. “This is something many countries did during World War II in Eastern
a piece of music, which is referred to as ballet in the sport of kite flying. Gordon has won 13 individual events between 2002–2009 at the annual national convention hosted by the American Kitefliers Association. He said his neighbors at his family’s former vacation home in Michigan introduced him to the sport, an activity Gordon enjoys with or without the competitive aspect. “When you launch the kite and you feel it on the end of the line, it’s just very calming,” Gordon said. “It relieves a lot of stress to just fly in general.” According to Gordon, who last xx SEE KITES, PG. 16
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