beacon William Paterson University • Volume 69 No. 20 Monday, March 3,2003 WPU students prepare to protest : By Vicki Kolomensky "more about the humanitarian f- Contributor movement of it." "People's human rights are t Worldwide protestors were being infringed upon," Clark said. heard on February 15, when mil- "...A lot of regular people just lions gathered around the globe to like us, civilians, are those who say no to war. may lose their lives as a result of This Wednesday, WPU students this." plan to join students at hundreds Clark, a member of the Peace of high schools and colleges and Justice Coalition, a campus across the nation in the "One-Day group formed in response to National Student Strike" on humanitarian concerns, has orga- March 5, 2003. nized a number of events, among Walking on campus, students them a silent protest to take place may have noticed the anti-war outside the Student Center at messages scribbled here and there 11:00, followed by a teach-in in in chalk on sidewalks; words the Science Hall between 12:30 familiar to many watchers of the and 5:00, with student and faculty nightly news: "How many lives speakers. per gallon?" and "No blood for Organizing the protest is The oil." National Youth & Student Peace Here at WiJIiam Paterson, Coalition, a group formed initial- senior Jackie Clark has decried ly in response to the the possibility of military inter- vention in Iraq not simply from Continued on page 6 Protestors say no to war: Thousands of protestors took to the streets of New York City on February 15 in opposition to war with Iraq. Many WPU the pacifist perspective, but students will rally for peace on Wednesday, March 5 for the "Books not Bombs" protest. Photo by Devin Asch, courtesy ofwww.nycindymedia.org. Female empowerment at Sister to Sister Conference By Dorothy Stewart practitioner, presented "To Wait or put our selves first," said Moravec Contributor Not To Wait," a workshop on sex during the workshop "Embracing and health education. the Right Decisions for a Better Female empowerment and sisterly According to Ellison, AIDS is the You". "I know that I do. We always love was the theme of the Sixth number one killer of women due to worry about what society thinks or annual Sister-to-Sister Conference the lack of education available to what our friends and lovers think." on March 1. Monique Greenwood, young women. During the workshop, one partici- former editor-in-chief of Essence "The only difference between oral pant told the audience a story about Magazine, gave the keynote address. sex and vaginal sex is that you can how she caught her friend's Greenwood spoke about how not get pregnant," Ellison said, boyfriend being unfaithful. She important finance, family and love adding that women need to learn asked whether or not she should tell are to women. how to communicate with their bod- her friend. Many in the audience "You first have to fill your cup ies. advised the girl to keep quiet, but up, when it runs over then every one "You have to introduce your self Moravec disagreed. can take a sip. Still, if your cup is to you. We as women are so willing "Why should we cover for this empty you are thirsty and then to do things that will please men guy? He did the dirt he should take everyone is in trouble," she said. and forget about ourselves. the consequences. We as women The main part of the conference Sometimes women demoralize them need to start believing in each 1 was dedicated to developmental selves for a man," she said. other." workshops for women. This sentiment was echoed by Dr. Nancy Ellison, coordinator of the Michelle Moravec, director of the Right: Participants at the tenth Wellness Center, and Olga Women's Center. annual Sister-to-Sister conference. Commissiong, a community health "As women we attend to forget to Photo by Dorothy Stewart. The Wild World American Hi-Fi dis- Men's Basketball of Forteana cuss the art of losing Page 24 Page 12 Page 18 beacon Produced on The independent, student-run Index Staff newspaper of William Paterson University. 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Center Cafe Beacon in the Student Center, Fax: 973-720-2093 room 310 Email: [email protected] 2 the beacon weekly • march 3, 2003 By Jim Schofieid National The Beacon International New Jersey Falsifies Terrorist Statistics With only one exception, all of the 62 people indicted fOT international terrorism last year in New Jersey were 9IU Suspect Caught falsely classified as terrorists and found guilty of lesser Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,, a leading member of al- offences. One of the men arrested pleaded guilty to Qaeda-who has been described as Osama bin Laden's entering the country on a false visa after being held Tor "field general," was captured with two other roe by CtA, five months; he was sentenced to time already served and FBI and Pakistani operatives Rawalpindi in Pakistan, then deported. The remaining 60 were all Middle Eastern near the capitol of Islamabad. U.S. officials believe students who had hired English speakers to take their Mohammed, who allegedly joined al-Qaedain 1993, is English proficiency test, exams required for foreign stu- US meets with opposition the mastermind behind the 9/51 attacks and a number of dents applying for admission to U.S. schools. All sixty ' others including the USS Cole, the embassy bombings of cases were classified as international terrorism. from UN Secuirty Council 1998 and the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Thel crime that these students are guilty of is wire Mohammed was on the FBI's most-wanted list and had a ' fraud, which warrants a fine and possibly deportation. $25 million bounty on his head. By Jessica Lancellotti American troops await a vote The vast majority have been let out on bail (often paid by After feeing interrogated by the Pakistanis, Mohammed The Beacon from Turkey that would authorize the embassies of their home countries), an option that and the two men captured with him were turned over to the use of their country as a U.S. would not have beep present in cases of actual terrorism. the'United States. He has apparently been taken to an The U.S. and its allies were military base. undisclosed location outside the US, New NJ State Police Superintendent Works to End met with staunch opposition at a American troops have Uncial Tensions U.N. Security Council meeting expressed concern over the TUrkfeh Parliament Refuses to Allow US Troops Joseph Rtcardo Fuentes; a Hispanic 52»year*old last Thursday. France Russia, extreme anti-war movement the Turkish Grand National Assembly rejected a Germany, China, and Syria are Rutherford resident, Was nominated tins past weekend to within the U.S., asking if civil- . motion to allow up to 62 thousand American troops and adamantly against the use of head New Jersey's State Police, an agency that has suf- " ians would "spit on us" when accompanying equipment into their country in prepara- force to disarm Saddam, while fered numerous accusations of racial profiling in past they returned home.