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Friday
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News
Rights
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"You can't torture peo-
ple at home, but you can
torture people outside of
the European territories/'
Gibney said.
For his third step, Gib-
ney offered three different
proposals to give people
the opportunity to protect
their own human rights.
The first proposal was to
create an International
Civil Court complemen-
tary to the current Interna-
tional Criminal Court. His
next proposal was to allow
optional protocol for the
International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cul-
tural Rights to be filed by
non-citizens of a particular
country who feel their hu-
man rights are being vio-
lated. Finally, he proposed
eliminating or severely re-
stricting state sovereignty.
"It gives you a bit of per-
spective on how the world
could be instead of how it
is, even if it is a bit Utopian
or idealistic," Justin Hayes,
Houston junior, said.
Steve Poe of the political
science faculty and fellow
human rights researcher
said Gibney may not have
convinced everyone with
his proposals, but there
was no doubt that students
were interested.
"It was still a tremen-
dous success," Poe said.
"It's rare that a lecture on
campus gets such a vocal
reaction."
Poe teaches a course
as part of the Peace Stud-
ies program, which is the
only one of its kind in the
JONATHAN WHITNEY/NT DAILY
Mark Gibney, a leading human rights researcher, ad-
dresses the topic of human rights in a speech Thursday
afternoon in Wooten Hall.
southwest. According to
Poe, peace studies are the
study of why violence oc-
curs and how conflicts can
be resolved with non-vio-
lent techniques.
"I hope they got a knowl-
edge of basic human rights
agreements, like the Dec-
laration on Human Rights,
and they gained more of an
idea of how human rights
are being used to make the
world a better place for
poor and oppressed peo-
ple," Poe said.
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ROTC places first
Casey Rogers
Daily Reporter
Cadets from NT's Air
Force ROTC tarveled to San
Marcos last weekend to com-
pete against five other Texas
detachments and came back
victorious. The cadets placed
first after participating in a
variety of athletic contests.
"We pretty much domi-
nated all of our events," Ca-
det Kenneth Fedor, San An-
gelo junior, said.
Capt. Dale Lathrop, com-
mandant of cadets, said this
is the first year the competi-
tion has been held. The ca-
dets wanted to participate
so they could meet and ex-
change information with
other schools.
"Cadets were interested in
showing that we have a great
program here," he said.
The group of 13 cadets
traveled to Texas State Uni-
versity knowing that they
had one of the smallest de-
tachments. But, Fedor said,
the NT Air Force ROTC
was prepared because it
has such a rigorous and
structured program.
"When we went down
there, we had the attitude
that we were one of the
smallest detachments so we
just wanted to have fun," Fe-
dor said. "We didn't expect
to win."
Cadets earned points by
competeing in 11 events,
ranging from ultimate foot-
ball, to a 1,600 meter race,
Fedor said the group's
biggest competition came
from the TCU team. He
said TCU's team is consid-
ered as a rival because it is
the only other school from
the metroplex.
"Our main goal was to
beat them," he said.
Lathrop, however, said
TCU was not an easy team
to beat.
"They were right with
us the whole time," he said.
"And they beat us out in bas-
ketball by one point."
NT Air Force ROTC cadets
will host the state-wide event
next year because of their
first place win.
Flu
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"Those labs then are to
identify those samples. If
they get it right, they're good
labs. If they don't get it right,
they're not a good lab, and
they should be shut down,"
he said.
According to wire news
services, Canada, Hong
Kong, South Korea and Sin-
gapore have reported their
samples destroyed, and Japa-
nese officials are destroying
samples there.
But, samples remain in
Belgium, France, Germany,
Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Ara-
bia, Italy, Bermuda, Brazil,
Chile, Mexico and Taiwan.
"We are getting daily up-
dates, and Friday is our tar-
get," said Klaus Stohr of the
World Health Organization
"We hope to hear all the sam-
ples are destroyed."
Typically, Oppong said,
the samples used for certifi-
cation are not a threat to hu-
mans. Either they are a com-
mon strain that have been in
circulation for a while and
many people are immune
to, or they are a strain with a
vaccine.
"There is always the fear
that the sample could get
into the wrong hands and
get mishandled," Oppong
said. "Your typical lab in the
United States...all these vi-
ruses would be safe in those
labs. If they were going to
developing countries where
the facilities are not reliable
or dependable because of
corruption, that would be a
major source of concern."
But the chance of the
strains getting into the wrong
hands - either bioterrorists'
or irresponsible researchers'
— is unlikely, Oppong said.
According to Oppong, the
labs that received samples
are "collaborating labs" and,
while their precautions might
not be as extensive as those
in the United States, those
researchers routinely use
similar samples in ongoing
research on the flu and know
how to handle the situation.
"For all these diseases, we
have samples for research,"
he said. "We need to protect
ourselves against these, we
need to develop vaccines
against these strains of these
diseases."
Oppong said Merid-
ian maintains the dangerous
shipment was unintentional,
but it still fell within the
CDC's guidelines. Viruses are
classified on the basis of their
potential danger to humans
and requiring varying levels
of protection during ship-
ping, he said, but this strain
is not particularly threaten-
ing and can be shipped.
As disturbing as this wake-
up call has been, Oppong
said, it was not something
authorities would expect,
and it is unlikely anyone will
repeat the mistake.
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