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LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY, RIVERSIDE Serving the LSU community since 1922 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2003 [email protected] IN THIS ISSUE... Page 2 Supreme Court Considers Federal Are you a good patient? Funding of Religious Institutions Page 3 By Sapna Sharma It was just a few weeks ago that protection under the law. The colleges and universities. The Clay is a better idol the Supreme Court came back student took the case to the Dis- California State Legislature has into session, to many of us that is trict Court, which stated that the been bandying about the idea Page 4 no big deal. Among the issues be- student was not denied his First of not allowing public schools ing debated this term are national Amendment rights. He appealed to employ teachers that earned Mrs. Jodi Cahill security, campaign finance, and to the 9lh Circuit Court of Ap- their degrees and credentials religion. One of the major cases peals and they ruled that in fact from religious universities. The regarding religion, this session is his rights were violated and that reasoning behind the argument from the state of Washington, and any student should be allowed to of those in favor of excluding concerns a college freshman who pursue their academic endeavor graduates of church run colleges SALSUNW.nl ou.O-1*- •! !• >J was majoring in theology. of choice. and universities is that teachers Students studying theology is The Defendant moved to re- from religious institutions may http://salsu.lasierra.edu certainly nothing new at LSU, hear the case, but the motion was incorporate their own beliefs into but when this student applied denied. An assistant to the Wash- lesson plans. for financial aid he was denied ington attorney general Bill Col- Further arguments to be made The world at a government funding because lins stated, according to MSNBC, in the case involve whether or not his concentration was religious "We are not paying for [him] to students who study religion from glance studies. The student had ex- exercise his constitutional rights, an objective point of view will pressed interest in becoming a but we are not keeping him from also be denied federal and state Compiled by Noel Nepomuceno minister at Northwest College, a expressing them." The. case is funding. Will a Baptist working small private religious institution now being taken to the Supreme on their Masters in ancient San- LONDON - Russian forces similar to La Sierra. The institu- Court to decide whether the Con- skrit be denied federal or state have suffered more casualties in tion claimed that the student was stitution's Free Exercise Clause funding? Will a liberal studies the past year in Chechnya than at denied federal funding because it requires public funding to be major from LSU be denied a any time since war resumed in is a violation of the separation of given to religious studies majors, teaching position with the Los 1999, the International Institute Angeles Unified School District? for Strategic Studies said on Oc- church and state. minors, and graduate students. tober 15th in its key annual report. The student argued that being The Supreme Court's decision The impact of this ruling could The report undermines Russia's denied financial aid on the basis in this case may impact the lives greatly impact many of the stu- assertion that it has largely pac- of his selected area of study was of the students at LSU. There has dents at LSU and colleges across ified the mainly Muslim region a violation of his First Amend- been further speculation that the the country, as well as graduates it sent troops back into after a ment rights to exercise freedom Supreme Court's ruling will af- of teaching programs. two-year period of de facto inde- of speech, association, and equal fect public and private schools, pendence. under a U.S. diplomatic convoy COPENHAGEN, Denmark Wednesday, ripping apart an Ginn Fourie Teaches Forgiveness - The Danish-born mother of armored van and killing three By Whitny Braun Russia's last emperor, Nikolai II, Americans in an unprecedented is set to make one final voyage deadly attack on an official U.S. On September 23rd La Sierra tober of 1997 Ginn highlighted the next autumn, 76 years after her target. University held the first assembly need to know who in the APLA death. The Empress-Dowager of the new school year. Students command had given the order Maria Fedorovna, who was born TOKYO - Japan answered and faculty were invited to hear for the Heidelberg massacre. Princess Dagmar of Denmark and Washington's call for help in speaker Gmn Fourie tell her story Although she had forgiven, she died in her homeland in 1928, is Iraq on Wednesday, pledging of loss, forgiveness and reconcili- needed to come face to face with to find her final resting place at $1.5 billion in reconstruction aid ation. The assembly, sponsored the architect of her childis death. by the School of Religion and the More than anything she wanted to St Petersburg's Saints Peter and next year and more down the line Stahl Center, offered attendees know why they hated white people Paul Cathedral, as she herself had despite economic woes at home. the opportunity to experience the so much. Ginn listened to their wished. The move comes on the eve of a inspiring tale of how one woman replies fearlessly and openheart- visit to Tokyo by President Bush, transformed her pain into a pledge ecfly. She realized her life would AIN KFAR ZABAD, Lebanon who is expected to lean on the to bring peace and understanding never be the same again. She - A Lebanese man confessed -to world's second-biggest economy to her homeland. was shocked by the accounts of killing his sister with a hunting to pull its weight in rebuilding On December 30th, 1993, pain, suffering, discrimination and rifle and dumping her body in a the war-torn country. Japan was twenty-three year old Lyndi violence these men had endured well on Wednesday, saying the among the first to support the war Fourie died in a hail of bullets under apartheid. woman, who had been divorced in Iraq, but has been waffling on when APLA soldiers attacked She traveled to the village of several times, had brought shame sending money or troops. the Heidelberg Tavern in Cape Letlapa Mphahlele, the man Town. Ginn Fourie lost her only who gave the orders that took on the family. Ali Shawkat al- daughter. The soldiers respon- her daughteris life, to attend his Sahili, 24, told investigators and MELBOURNE, Australia sible were captured, tried and homecoming ceremony. She reporters that he lured his sister - One of Australia's most noto- sentenced. That Lyndi was a vic- came to understand him, the con- Fatima, 27, to orchards by their rious convicted killers is launch- tim of the armed struggle against ditions that had caused him to live village in Lebanon's eastern ing a legal battle for the right to whites is an irony. At the Truth the life he led and by her actions Bckaa Valley and shot her twice wear makeup while he serves his and Reconciliation Commission, inspired the people of his village. with after she "stained the family life sentence, enraging the family where the soldiers were finally Ginn Fourie was a professor of name." So-called "honour kill- of one of his victims. Paul Denyer, given amnesty, Ginn told the physiotherapy at the University of ings" — the murder of female 31, was jailed for a minimum APLA cadre how Lyndi worked Cape Town. After the death other relatives in cases of suspected 30-year term for murdering three to improve living conditions for daughter Ginn immersed herself adultery, fornication or rape young women in the southern city black people. She was finishing in a new direction of study, recon- a Civil Engineering program and ciliation. She is transforming her - arc relatively rare in Lebanon, of Melbourne over seven weeks in had great plans of bringing water loss, and subsequent experiences despite laws which allow courts 1993. He is launching an appeal and sewage systems to the homes into a doctoral dissertation. She to give reduced sentences to men with the Victoria state Civil and in Khayclitsha. Sometimes she sees the need to provide spiritual convicted of them. Administrative Tribunal against came home in tears because of support and counseling on a large a refusal by Barwon Prison au- the pain and suffering she saw in scale to those that have known BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - A thorities to let him buy and wear black communities. no other life but a life of mfcteraGh ROOM remote-controlled bomb exploded makeup. During the TRC hearing in Oc- training, cruelty and haNNIVERSlTY LIBRARY NOV 0 4 2003 LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA CRITERION EDITOR'S PAGE OCTOBER 23. 2003 Are you a good patient? By Wbitny Braun, Criterion Editor-in-Chief The Lord works in mysterious for the Los Angeles Unified School rubbing my temples. The Fireman ways. A week ago I sat down to District and could perform CPR. Paramedic Moffat looked at me write my column for the paper and She began performing neurologi- and very seriously and intensely I ended up staring at the screen of cal tests on me that consisted of asked, tHave you been depressed my laptop for thirty minutes be- asking me how many fingers she lately or experiencing any suicidal fore I got hungry and went into the was holding. As this was going on feelings?! I lifted my head again kitchen and ate a box of Triscuits.