Students Take to Streets, Cheer Bin Laden's Demise
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• I . .. ~ 4 1\ I 'I , , ..- ·· Sneak peek of Students participate in Baseball team Blue Hen Poll results campus film fest still on top in CAA See pages 8-9 Seepage 23 Seepage 28 Check out the website for lDreVle\-V''w''· I • Tuesday, May 3, 2011 ·<un breaking news and more. Volume 137, Issue 25 'Justice has been done' Profs examine ramifications of bin Laden's death BY CHELSEA CALTUNA Copy Desk Chief Although the news of Osama bin Laden's death Sunday night invoked a celebratory mood among university community members, some experts are now questioning the response of U.S. citizens to the incident, as well as the future of international relations with the Middle East. Political science professor Muqtedar Khan said the focus will now be on how bin Laden escaped detection during a 10- year manhunt. He said this issue could further complicate relations between the U.S. and Pakistan, where bin Laden was found living in a luxurious compound. "At the moment there's a very heightened suspicion on both sides," Khan said. "How come this guy was living in such a palatial place, in a city where most Pakistani THE REVIEW/Dan Scrutchfield Following President Barack Obama's announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed by American forces, many students came together for military people go to retire? What a spirited march, which culminated in them jumping in the fountain outside of Morris Library. was he doing? Was he sitting in coffee shops and browsing the Internet at Starbucks?" He doubts bin Laden's death will significantly impact U.S. Students take to streets, cheer bin Laden's demise relations with the Middle East, noting that the recent wave of pro BY NORA KELLY, MARINA democracy uprisings has somewhat KOREN, JOSH SHANNON Onr e Extra: marginalized al-Qaida and other and LAUREN ZAREMBA extremists groups. The Review a.... Visit udreview.com "They're out of touch with 'r for a photo gallery Patriotic fervor swept through and video See PROFESSORS page 6 campus late Sunday night after news broke that U.S. Special Forces in Pakistan had killed Sept. 11 mastermind said while marching down Academy nside: Two full Osama bin Laden. Street. "I'm so glad I could be a part of Hundreds of students, many it." pages of coverage clutching American flags and singing Welsh and her roommates the national anthem, converged on were in their apartment watching See pages 6-7 The Green, forming a nearly three President Barack Obama make the live • Police make no arrests hour impromptu parade that shut down announcement about bin Laden's death Main Street, snaked through all parts on television when they heard chants of •Alumni remember 9/11 of campus and culminated with dozens "USA! 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Managing News Editor "I think that it's important to have free speech, and people can say what One year after their anti they want, but when it causes harm to abortion protest sparked controversy people, I think it should be regulated," on campus, the registered student Foster said. organization Pro-Life Vanguard will Michael Gilbert, vice president return to The Green Thursday and of Student Life, said all students and Friday with a display featuring graphic RSOs are permitted to book space on imagery of aborted fetuses, Holocaust university property to hold events, victims and lynching. though the university does follow The Genocide Awareness specific guidelines in determining the Project, an initiative of the Center for feasibility of some events. Bioethical Reform, an anti-abortion Individuals or groups wishing to group, makes comparisons between hold events on campus must fill out genocide and abortion, in what protest comprehensive paperwork, describing organizers call an effort to combat the their event, the desired location and dehumanization of unborn fetuses. timeframe, he said. r "We want people to understand Before approving a space request, that the prebom child is in fact a officials consider whether an event human being that has value, and that would affect the health and safety ofthe abortion is an act of violence," said university community or interfere with Gina Paladinetti, president of Pro-Life the normal business of the university, Vanguard. like classes and office activity, Gilbert Last year, hundreds of university said. community members gathered around Per university policy, groups the display, some protesting its requesting space do not have to comparison to genocide, and debated explicitly show or demonstrate to free speech on campus. Other less university officials what their event serious onlookers held up joke signs, will entail. Movies shown on The scrawled with statements like "Pro Green or music played by groups on Viking" and "Protesting is for losers!" university property do not have to be For this year's event, students pre-approved, and this same principle have already begun organizing several applies to the Genocide Awareness serious counter-protests. Project's posters. Courtesy of Stefanic Kahn Sophomore Becky Burgess, a For the second year, officials Cancer survivors and their families gathered in the Survivors' Tent outside Delaware Stadium for a dinner member of the feminist RSO V-Day, determined that Pro-Life Vanguard's held in their honor at Relay for Life. is organizing one such demonstration. request would not disrupt university She said she felt disrespected and life, Gilbert said. angered by the display last year, and Paladinetti said she provided this response triggered her desire to the Genocide Awareness Project's Relay for life honors cancer survivors organize a counter protest. website, whose homepage contains "I feel like they were using the display's graphic imagery, on her the struggles of other marginalized space request form. She said this year's BY SARAH AMER attending the university's event co-chair of the Relay for Life groups [like African-Americans and display will be identical to last year's, Staff Reporter four years ago. committee, said the event is Holocaust victims] and using these though the size of the display may be "The event is always intended to celebrate survivors, people and their stories as props," sfightly smaller.