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Studying in the Radiation Islands the ChAMPlAiN CURRENT Champlain College • Burlington, Vermont Vol. 8, No. 60 • April 2011 INSIDE Studying in the Street Fighter Radiation Islands 5 by Abbie Clark death tolls had reached 10,035, become harmful. With Staff Writer with nearly 17,443 people miss- little improvement taken ing. According to the Guardian, place successfully, the Barely in his twenties, Justin the Japanese police believe the United States is urging Brunet is traveling to the other final death count may reach an evacuation of all its’ side of the world, without the 18,000 people. Millions are still citizens within an 80 mile support of his parents or the without heat and electricity. The radius of the disaster, yet college. He doesn’t know what nuclear power plant, Fukushima Brunet still wants to go. awaits him when he steps off the Dai-ichi, although was built to “Nothing is definite. plane, nor does he know how his withstand earthquakes, was In the next couple days, semester in Japan will proceed as damaged by the tsunami and has the nuclear reactors will the effects of the recent disaster been leaking radiation. A week either completely go, sink in. after the disaster the reactors stopping me and I’ll go Justin Brunet, far right, with other students in Japan. Photo By Wesley Boyette On Friday, March 11, north- are still not under control. On in the summer, or it’ll eastern Japan had an earthquake an international scale of zero to be fine,” Justin said last 18 his parents did not have to the waiver. with a 9.0 magnitude, creating a seven, the Fukushima disaster is week. sign, but it was recommended, On Tuesday, March 22, Brunet tsunami with waves as high as rated a six, second to Chernobyl, After a week of being unsure and after a week of support from disregarded the concerns felt by http://www.impawards.com/1994/posters/ 10 meters. The magnitude makes and already worse than the if he could leave the country for the college, on March 18, he his family and education and left street_fighter_xlg.jpg it the largest earthquake to hit Three Mile Island incident. the first time in his life, Brunet received word that Champlain the following day to study abroad Japan in recorded history and the Currently the evacuation zone is decided to go, even though his College no longer recommended seventh largest in the world since 20 km, and radiation levels are parents initially refused to sign that he travel. Eventually both see Islands Embracing records began. As of March 25, rising in Tokyo, but have yet to the liability waiver. Being over Brunet and his parents signed Page 10 South Africa 7 Recent Grad’s Second Play Champlainers Take to be Performed in May Service Trip to by emily Cummings by Champlain College under- with the process and I can’t Nicaragua Special to the Current graduates and was founded wait for everyone to see the and is overseen by Professional performance in May,” Wisch Most 25 year-olds who dream Writing Program Director and says. The play is, quickly by Melissa George We went expecting to work, of being a playwright today professor Tim Brookes. summed, a misadventure of Special to the Current and work we did. We joined are following around their “This being [my] second four guys in their mid-twenties forces with a farmers’ coopera- mentors with a constantly play, I’m a lot more familiar who mean well, but can’t seem Manure, cockroaches and giant tive in an area of the country refreshed cup of coffee to stay out of trouble. It’s a spiders—what could possibly called La Paz to help with three and copy editing lines comedy, with a surprising be more memorable than that? biogas systems. to learn the craft, or amount of action for such Smiles, hugs, and the friends A biogas system traps the Photo ProVided carrying props. Recent a short play. The entire we left behind. methane created by a mixture Champlain College performance runs about Nicaragua (population 6 of water and cow manure and graduate, Ali Wisch has an hour. million) is the second poorest channels it so it can be used to completed her second “It’s very unusual for country in the Americas, “The Hot Pink play in a year, “The Hot someone so young, let after Haiti. Despite rich Meltdown” Toilet Photos Pink Meltdown.” The alone any playwright right resources of water and play will be performed now, to be publishing two farmland, Nicaraguans 12 at 8PM, May 4-6 at plays, having the second have the highest rate Champlain College in performed, and filming the of undernourishment Alumni Auditorium. first. And all at the same in Central America Tickets are $7 in time,” says Brookes. and almost half of the advance or $8 at the That’s right, in addition population lives below door. to the performance and the poverty line. With Even more unusual the books (both plays are inflation at near 10 for such a young play- available for purchase), percent, 80 percent of wright, Wisch will also Wisch is also filming her Nicaraguans live on less be publishing both first play, “25 Squirrels.” than two dollars per day. her plays with the “It’s a lot of work, but I Of those, more than half Champlain College love it,” says Wisch, “This are single mothers. Publishing Initiative is what I want to be doing With some exposure (CCPI) for purchase in even if it does take a great to Human Rights issues print. CCPI is unlike deal of energy.” in Core 320 and a lot of Marissa George Photo ProVided any other publishing anxiety, Champlain stu- organization in the see Play dents, faculty and staff wanted power a gas stove. In an area Jenna Grimaldi Photo ProVided nation. It is mainly run tim Brookes reads the Current on the hot pink toilet. Photo ProVided Page 11 to make a difference. of the country where electricity On March 6, 2011, I joined and running water are spo- my students David Madonna, radic, this provides consistent Caitlin Golub, Jerica Dziki, fuel for cooking. Closing the Suicide Prevention Gap Heather Barrett, Marissa We worked on various stages George, Brian Esola and Service of the system: we cleaned by dan Cooley of youth suicide. leading cause of death here in people were suffering the horrible and Civic Engagement Director out the pit where the system Staff Writer According to the Youth Suicide Vermont. Even though suicide effects of suicide than previously Kyle Dodson on a spring break needed to go and lined it with Prevention Program, approxi- has always been one of the top ten thought, and in an attempt to service trip. plastic. Unfortunately, no one After the recent suicides of high mately 4,250 Americans between causes of death in the state, the resolve the problem the Vermont The goals of the trip were told the two-inch-round spiders school student Connor Menning the ages of 10 and 24 commit Vermont Department of Mental Department of Mental Health to understand social injustice living in the pit that they would and St. Michael’s freshman suicide every year. This makes Health only really increased its Services gathered its resources beyond the confines of our need to relocate. Jordan Porco, a public outcry budget to assist suicide preven- and released a plan of action in comfortable classroom, and to We carried and mixed water, has been made to improve tion programs after being rocked 2005 called the Vermont Suicide try to make life just a little gravel and cement and used it psychiatric assistance for We need to remain troubling statistic recorded in a Prevention Program. better for a few of the most to install the pipes at each end students suffering from survey of High schools in 2003. The program has four main impoverished Nicaraguans. In of the pit. And when a pipe that depression or suicidal tenden- vigilant and increase The result of the Vermont goals aimed at aiding those reality, what we gained was an hadn’t been installed correctly cies in the state of Vermont. our own student Youth Risk Behavior Survey considering suicide before they understanding of the resilience buckled, Kyle, Dave and Brian However, Vermont actually concluded that 13% of students attempt it, resolving the issues of the human spirit and human has a fairly comprehensive assistance programs in grades 8-12 had made a plan leading them to suicide, and connections that changed the see Nicaragua mental health services pro- about how to attempt suicide, dealing with the after-effects way we see the world. Page 10 gram already in place, and 7% had actually attempted sui- associated with suicide. The has conducted several studies cide, and 2% had made a suicide on students and young adults in suicide the 11th leading cause attempt that required medical see Suicide an attempt to quell a rising tide of death in the U.S., and the 8th treatment. This meant that more Page 10 Fáilte Ireland by rachel salois Archaeological Museum exam- and elizabeth Crawford ining ancient artifacts from Dublin Correspondents Pompeii, to gear myself up for my daytrip there to the This is not what I had planned ruins the next day but, as a for my spring break. sign on the door patronizingly I sat on a rusting bench in informed me, the museum was the middle of a rotary in Naples, only closed on Tuesdays, and Italy as pigeons flocked around that’s precisely what this was.
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