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University of Central Florida STARS The Rollins Sandspur Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida 4-8-2005 Sandspur, Vol 111, No 22, April 08, 2005 Rollins College Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Rollins Sandspur by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. STARS Citation Rollins College, "Sandspur, Vol 111, No 22, April 08, 2005" (2005). The Rollins Sandspur. 1786. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur/1786 ROLLINS COLLEGE • WINTER PARK, FLORIDA anbgpuri THE OLDEST COLLEGE NEWSPAPER IN FLORIDA FOUNDED IN 1894 \\W \\.THESANDSPUR.ORG IN BRIEF Peter Jennings Has Cancer "HATRED IS ALWAYS WRONG" The anchor of ABC News "World News Tonight" Peter Jennings announced that he has lung cancer. Jennings says that he plans to contin ue working as much as he can after starting chemother apy. Jennings is a former smoker who quit many years ago, he was too weak to cover the death of the Pope. U.S. Tightens Border Security Starting in 2008 Americans will need passports to enter the United States from Cana da, Mexico, Panama, and Bermuda. The new meas ures are aimed at curbing terrorists from entering the United States from certain countries. Wolf Performs at Rollins BRIAN HERNANDEZ/The Sandspur Gary Wolf, pianist and Dis tinguished Visiting Artist at Holocaust survivor Maria Clark shares her experiences Rollins, will perform in a duo recital with guest cellist with Rollins' Communication Ethics Students David Cedel on April 10 at 3 by Brian Hernandez Trust Auditorium on sonal journey that began p.m. in the Knowles Memo production manager Wednesday, March 30, and with opulence and the prom rial Chapel. In what has been recog Monday, April 4, to coincide ise of youth, but met with nized as the pinnacle of Dr. with students course materi devastating hardship along IN THIS ISSUE Marvin Newman's Commu al that relate to death and vi the way. nication Ethics course for olence. Born to a wealthy family over 20 years, Holocaust sur After a brief introduc in Vienna, Austria, Clark ex vivor Maria Clark graced the tion by Dr. Newman, who plained that although she halls of Rollins College this thanked his guest for honor spoke five languages and week to share her first-hand ing two decades of his class possessed the equivalent of a account of the horrors of in es with her eloquence, Clark current high school educa difference. stood up amidst authentic tion by her twelfth birthday, Annie's Grand Finale Clark's lectures were regalia of the Nazi regime, she knew very little about The Annie Russell Theatre held in the Crummer Sun and began to recount a per CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BRIAN HERNANDEZ/The Sandspur will wrap up its season with the double feature musical A Day In Hollywood IA Night In Ukraine, showing Friday, Pope John Paul II Dead at Age 84 April 22 - Saturday, April 30. page 11 Millions mourn the death of the pontiff Duncan to be Installed at the end of his 26 Dr. Lewis M. Duncan will be year tenure. by Ken Dilanian installed this weekend as the in disbelief, and still others Matthew Schofield fourteenth president of bowed their heads in prayer. Patricia Montemurri Rollins College. "We all feel like orphans knight ridder newspapers page 3 this evening," Undersecre Pope John Paul II died tary of State Archbishop Residence Hall Special Saturday after a two-day Leonardo Sandri told the Check out our overviews of end-of-life drama that crowd. each residence hall as you sparked an unprecedented The bells of St. Peter's gear up for housing selection. global outpouring of atten Basilica tolled in a solemn page 6 tion to his life, his legacy and signal of mourning. People what lies ahead for thestreame d into the square and INDEX Roman Catholic Church. the crowd overflowed into The first news of his nearby streets. NEWS 2 death came via an e-mail to Many said they knew HOLT NEWS 5 journalists by the papal what happened when they LIFE&TTMES 6 spokesman, and then it was saw the light flick on in the announced to an estimated window of John Paul's apart ENTERTAINMENT . .10 ABD RABBO-ZABULON / Knight Ridder Tribune HONORING THE GLOBAL LEADER: Pallbearers carry Pope 70,000 people gathered in St. ment, three stories above OPINIONS 15 John Paul II in a procession from the Apostolic Palace to St. Peter's Square. Some wept Bernini's colonnade. SPORTS 18 Peter's Basilica for public viewing on Monday, April 4, 2005. uncontrollably, others stared CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 THE SANDSPUR NEWS APRIL 8, 2005 The Holocaust: A First Hand Perspective hardships in the camps Clark's background in CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 struck a chord in the con education was evident the inhumanity that existed sciousness of the audience. throughout, as she pep beyond the doors of her "You don't know what pered the staccato of im childhood home. hunger really is," Clark stat agery with meaningful in It wasn't until she found ed. "Hunger invades your sights, concisely structured herself a prisoner in one of entire being and forces you to inspire the audience to the Nazi's many concentra into situations you cannot frame the messages within tion camps that Clark's mat have imagined." the context of their own uration culminated at the The candor Clark lives. "Each of us has the pointed end of a hatred-em shared in the lecture not duty to inspire others to be powered bayonet. "People only served to bring the tolerant," shared Clark. on the street would spit in course material to life in a "The opposite of love is not our faces, but we couldn't sweeping torrent of emo hatred—it is indifference." wipe it off," shared Clark. tion-laden imagery, her pas Hamilton Holt Senior "We could only just stand sionate ability to entrench Melissa Andrews was pro there." the audience within her foundly moved by Clark's Her eight-month fight to journey brought many to statement and the signifi stay alive in the camps came tears and consistently filled cance it beckoned. "It sad BRIAN HERNANDEZ/ The Sandspur as a result of the Nazi's in the room with a reverent dened me to realize how we LOUDER THAN WORDS: Lecture participants view photos tent to acquire her family's stillness. as a society have become in presented by Maria Clark documenting her many struggles. fortune, which Clark ex For many of those in at different to the injustices we mer husband and child she nately for Rollins and the plained was a common rou tendance, Clark's portrayal encounter on a daily basis," thought she had lost over 60 many students who have tine for looting the aristoc of her experiences after in said Andrews. "Not only years ago. had the privilege of partici racy of a conquered nation. carceration also served as a should we fight for our "It is amazing to me pating in the lectures, Clark Upon hearing news that she revealing look into the stoic selves but also for those how strong her will to sur and Dr. Newman have was being "reeducated" in determination of a woman around us. Collectively we vive was during the Holo maintained a lasting friend Berlin, Clark's family signed intent on living. From en are stronger." caust," shared Holt Senior ship which should ensure over all of their possessions during the torture of allied Espousing the strength Catharine Schram. "I'm not her return in the future. For to the Reich and agreed to bombardments of Berlin found in carrying oneself sure if confronted with the those unable to attend, how emigrate to Germany in and the Gestapo's deathgrip with dignity and hope, same situation I would have ever, Dr. Newman has ad order to free her. on the populace, to suffer Clark ended her talk by been able to survive. Her vised that they are working Clark's vivid descrip ing the indignity of sexual sharing her rewarding expe human strength is an inspi on a collaborative book that tions of her abduction, in assault at the hands of Russ riences while serving as an ration to me." will provide an introspec carceration, and exposure to ian invaders and the loss of interpreter for the American Although Clark's jour tive view of Clark's experi brutality, resonated a husband and child, Clark Army, assisting with the lib neys have taken her back to ences, as well as highlight amongst the intimate gath provided an unflinching eration of concentration Germany on many occa her significant contributions ering of students, but her glimpse into many life alter camps, and eventually sions, she now calls central toward expanding the scope explanation of the physical ing segments of her past. being reunited with the for- Florida her home. Fortu of Holocaust awareness. Mourning the Death of Pope John Paul II the pope's fate. Perhaps not 'He looked at me with That was perhaps fitting to certify the pope's death, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 since the September 11 at his eyes. He tried to nod at for a pope who traveled the camerlengo - Eduardo "He was so strong, and tacks in New York has any me. I know he recognized more than 745,000 miles dur Martinez Somalo - would he always spoke about our single event so dominated me," the American cardinal ing his papacy, the equiva have called out his baptismal problems," said Cotbrina the world's attention, a re said.