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Police Blotter
Giving a face to Guantanamo Bay
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teaches a class on weather and paying little heed to important to an usher. They were escort-
Mufreesboro,
gave relatively little ink, for
alamb@stedwards.edu
evidence supporting global former oil company lobbyist impressed by Gore’s message.
warming.
Wynn to present
clean energy plan
Non-profit
fair fares well
Fernandez said,
how individuals
mechanisms for all businesses
and individuals to reduce their
carbon footprint to zero. He
climate, dismissed the pro-
testers’ claims. He said there
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board member of several cor-
porations, including Apple
Computer Inc. and Google
their lawyers.
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then presented their clients
with these images, stories and
Main Campus
Woodward Bus stop
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Sciences Building
Doyle Hall
Basil Moreau Hall
Quickdip breezeway
Theater
Parking lot
North Main Building
East Hall
WWW.AAIMAUSTIN.ORG
Mayor Will Wynn will speak at St. Edward’s Oct. 23.
building, along with incentives
and recognition for individu-
als and businesses that achieve
carbon neutrality
The mayor will cover all of
Theater Pass/Moody
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sor at Middle Tennessee State
COURTESY OF MARGOT HOSTER
Mark Sullivan, a U.S. attorney, visits with the father and brother of a detainee in Bahrain.
Driving while intoxicated
Information (damage to
university property)
Burglary
Possession of drug
paraphernalia (2)
Public intoxication (arrest)
Information (misdemeanor
warrant arrest)
Public intoxication (arrest)
Theft
Theft
Theft
Furnishing alcohol to minors
Found bat
Theft
Public intoxication (arrest)
Information (personal safety
concern)
Information (damage to
personal property)
Public intoxication (referred
to Dean of Students)
Woodward Bus stop
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actually these issues and more in his
multimedia presentation and
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A video still of an Afghan detainee’s son.
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resented at the fair included
The Livestrong Foundation,
.Austin Public Library Austin
Children’s Museum, Tzu Chi,
sity will pick up the remaining
75 percent.
Those who missed out on
the event can still contact the
Career Planning Office for
more information.
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to encounter a single scien-
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leading emitter of greenhouse
gases. The flyer also said that
in his presentation, Gore does
not acknowledge the indis-
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transporting food or “democ-
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trivialities while as well making vulgar motions Inc. He is also a visiting profes-
Volunteering, mentoring,
campaigning and interning
Al Gore is chairman of
Current TV and of Generation
Investment Management.
earth globally, without nation- gravity you’d see some people
alism. pretending to float off the
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to legal representation.
As a result, many law firms
offered some of the detainees
legal counsel pro bono. One
of the law firms was Allen and
Overy, located in New York,
which Herster’s husband
worked for.
In an effort to ease the
detainees’ distrust of the U.S.
legal system and to introduce
themselves, the attorneys trav-
eled to detainees’ homes in
Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait,
Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
There, they photographed
their houses, families, old
photographs and other per-
sonal objects. The lawyers
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and closed his lecture with the threat of global warming. he have his facts straight, but
were some of the terms that Casa, Texas Campaign for the
could be heard flying around Environment and the United
Ragsdale Plaza on Aug. 26 at Way
the non-profit fair. While doing work for free
The fair, which was open to may not sound like a blast to
all St. Edward’s students, fac- most time-crunched students,
ulty, staff and alumni, hosted in some cases there is the pos-
local non-profit organizations sibility of monetary compensa-
in an effort to encourage stu- tion for internships. If a stu-
dents to get involved in the dent is eligible for work-study
Austin community and the organization is willing
“Non-profit fair is great to pay 25 percent of the stu-
because you can find out about dent’s wages, then the univer-
vidual can be seen in the “Go For more information on
Neutral” part of the plan. the event contact the United
This initiative provides Nations Student Alliance at
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event started, protesting what etary disaster have to do with
Chairwoman Liz Young called politics or ideology?” he said,
a “one-sided” approach to the “This is a moral issue, an ethi-
issue. cal issue.”
“We feel that a lot of people Gore appeared to a crowd WWW.VENTURACOUNTYSTAR.COM
don’t hear the other side and of a few thousand in front Al Gore lectures to a crowd at the UT campus.
don’t hear the facts,” she said. of a theater-sized projection
The group distributed a flyer screen, which throughout the who resigned in 2005 after he a professor of integrative biol-
claiming it is reasonable for lecture displayed statistics, was accused of editing docu- ogy at UT, said. “I was very
the United States to be the images and videos. He opened ments, hoping to downplay impressed that not only did
Local artist and freelance
photographer Margot Herster
presented her most recent
art project, “Guantanamo:
Pictures from Home,” to a
group of more than 25 St.
Edward’s students and faculty
Sept. 27.
The exhibition debuted in
spring of this year in Houston
at FotoFest 2007, where it was
on display for two months.
It is also on display at the
University of California-Santa
Cruz and in New York and
New Jersey
Herster spent two years
developing the exhibition,
which draws from over 2,000
photographs, audio, and video
clips of Guantanamo detain-
ees and their families, as well
as excerpts of interviews
between the detainees and
in culturally appropriate gar-
ments, interacting with the
detainees’ parents, siblings
and friends.
Instead of the usual pictures
of Middle Eastern men draped
in bright orange jumpsuits,
Herster said she wants the
exhibition to create a discus-
sion about the visual language
coming out of Guantanamo.
“This project presents in a
whole new light, a whole new
picture of Guantanamo than
the iconic orange jumpsuit
photographs we see in the
newspapers,” Herster said.
literacy, leisure and personal in our democracy in the way
mobility” that we are presented infor-
John Cotter, assistant pro- mation,” Gore said.
fessor of behavioral and social Gore attacked the media for
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detainees have been released, The lack of images available
many are still being held for to the public made Herster
suspected terrorism charges want to put a face to the
or links to Al-Qaeda or the detainees.
Taliban. “The collection of photo-
After being detained, the graphs, for me, was a way to
Bush Administration said that address the image void relat-
the detainees should be sub- ing to Guantanamo,” Herster
ject to military tribunals, rath- said.
er than presenting their cases Very few photos of the
in U.S. federal courts. detainees are available, but
Ultimately the U.S. Supreme Herster did show some of
Court ruled that all detainees their passport photographs,
held at the Guantanamo Bay Most of the photos are of
detention camp had the right the lawyers, who are dressed
and White House executive “Brilliant,’’CamilleParmesan,
1. He presented the case that doubts that people are playing
the rising amount of carbon a big role in global warming.”
dioxide and other pollut- Gore said it would not be
ants produced in the last few hard for the United States to
decades continue to cause make the necessary changes
sea levels and global temper- to reduce fossil fuel consump-
atures to rise. He spoke at tion. The political will is pres-
the University of Texas’ Frank ent, he said.
Erwin Center. “Political will in an American
“Never before has all human democracy is a renewable
civilization been at risk,” he resource,” he said.
said. The issue is not partisan pol-
About 15 people from The itics, Gore said.
UT chapter of the Young “What in the world does
Conservatives of Texas were our responsibility to protect
outside the gates before the our children against a plan-
lots of great close places to vol-
unteer and get internships all
at the same time,” sophomore
Ashley Yates said. ‘After walk-
ing for 10 minutes I already
had an armful of flyers.”
The fair offered opportunities
to meet with representatives
of local non- profits and find
out information on available
jobs, internships and volunteer
work. Some of the groups rep-
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ability to take such complex emitting into the atmosphere,
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