flyernews.com FLYER NEWS @FlyerNews THURSDAY, NEWS A&E OPINIONS SPORTS SEPT. 19, 2013 “New” policy forum cancelled Harry Potter spin-off series Obama loses superpower Dayon takes 11th straight due to lack of student stirs conflicting opinions, pg. chess match in Syria, pg. 11. from RMU, pg. 15. VOL. 61 NO. 5 attendance, pg. 5. 9. US military intervention delayed, but battle for Syria rages on MATTHEW WORSHAM nessed oppression, but he kept Opinions Editor preaching,” he said, “So many [Syrian] people still have faith, Once apparently imminent, the that’s what’s interesting about the United States has postponed plans people there … There are so many to launch punitive military strikes ways that we can stop the conflict, against Syrian government forces but we need the will.” for their alleged use of chemical The political developments this weapons. But the decision does month follow a major sarin gas nothing to confront the conven- attack in Ghouta, a suburb of Da- tional violence between rebel and mascus, Syria, on Aug. 21. regime forces, which has claimed President Barack Obama threat- over 100,000 lives since March 2011 ened to execute a series of limited according to the Syrian Observa- military strikes against regime tory for Human Rights. targets in order to enforce interna- This weekend, the U.S. and Rus- tional mores on the use of chemi- sia agreed to a deal that will place cal weapons. Syria’s chemical arsenal under Speaking to the American peo- international control, temporarily LEBANON ple from the rose garden on Aug. sparing Syrian President Bashar 31, Obama said, “I have decided al-Assad’s regime from an attack that the United States should take from the U.S. military action against Syrian The deal comes nearly a week regime targets … I’m confident after a CNN/ORC poll, published we can hold the Assad regime ac- Sept. 9, reported that 59 percent countable for their use of chemical of Americans oppose a potential weapons, deter this kind of behav- Congressional resolution to take ior, and degrade their capacity to military action. carry it out.” Senior communication man- In the same speech, however, agement major Colleen Moody Obama also asked for congres- seemed comforted by the news, COURTESY OF CREATIVE COMMONS sional approval to carry out the saying, “From a pacifist perspec- attacks, an unprecedented move tive, anything we can do from a according to the United Nations the brunt of the violence. So the Nationality aside, UD’s Catho- that delayed the possible strike negotiations standpoint might be High Commissioner for Refugees. longer it goes on, the more difficul- lic, Marianist values tie students until congress returned from vaca- more effective than a preemptive The U.N. Office for the Coordina- ties people will have.” to the Syrian conflict and to the tion on Sept. 9 to debate the issue. military strike.” tion of Humanitarian Affairs es- “What’s being done to protect plight of humans around the But it was an apparently off-the- The war may seem far away timates that a further 4.25 million minorities?” Farhat asked, ques- world; students are obligated cuff remark by Secretary of State from Dayton, but for international are internally displaced. tioning the priorities of interna- to care about the suffering and John Kerry in London that day students from countries neighbor- In comparison, the total popula- tional action thus far. “[For exam- struggles of their world brothers that caught the attention of Rus- ing Syria, the conflict literally hits tion of Syria is just over 22 million, ple] the Christians have managed and sisters. As Majka said, “As a sian and Syrian leadership. close to home. Youssef Farhat, a according to data from the World to survive for centuries under op- Catholic institution, if we’re going Responding to whether or not graduate student in the Masters Bank. pression, but violence is a differ- to be consistent [with our values], Assad could take action to prevent of Public Administration program Lebanon hosts the highest num- ent question.” we have every reason to be con- a U.S. military strike, Kerry said, from Northern Lebanon, pointed ber of registered Syrian refugees, In order to end the conflict, he cerned about the plight of people “He could turn over every single out that on a daily basis, his family at about 35 percent, based on data said he believes that “The right who are displaced via violence and bit of his chemical weapons to the wakes up to news of violence, ter- from UNHCR. approach is to see what minorities what actually becomes of them.” international community in the rorism and refugees on the other Another serious concern when need … and to move toward that.” Regarding the importance of next week. Turn it over, all of it, side of the Lebanon/Syria border. it comes to the civilian population Commenting on the connection staying informed on the topic, without delay, and allow a full and “We can’t be isolated from the is the security of minority groups between UD students and the Mid- Moody said, “any student can re- total accounting for that. But he problem,” he said. “My friends in in the region. When asked what dle East, Mark Ensalaco, director ally blind themselves to what’s go- isn’t about to do it, and it can’t be Lebanon said their lives were on the turmoil in Syria has meant for of UD’s Human Rights Studies pro- ing on, and that’s a very danger- done, obviously.” hold after Obama’s announcement minorities, Theo Majka, a sociol- gram, said, “Men and women from ous behavior … your awareness Russian and Syrian leadership [asking Congress for authoriza- ogy professor specializing in im- the Arab and Muslim world are of what’s going on is how you can pounced on the statement, and tion of a strike], waiting to see if migration, said, “Many have been coming to this university. Their change things.” on Sept. 14 Kerry and Russian the U.S. would attack, postponing targeted for violence … sometimes world is in turmoil. There is a lot Drawing on themes from UD’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov travel and educational decisions.” by the Assad regime, and some- of hope, on the one hand, after all response to the Great Dayton announced an agreement that A major concern with this war times by various opposition forc- of these decades of corruption, but Flood in 1913, Farhat said he be- would require the disarmament is the sheer volume of refugees it es. Mosques have been burned, on the other hand … we’re facing lieves a UD-like initiative in the of Syria’s chemical arsenals by the has produced. About 2 million reg- churches have been burned … the largest humanitarian catastro- Middle East is necessary. middle of next year. istered refugees have fled Syria, Christians have particularly taken phe since Rwanda in the mid-90s.” “Father Chaminade also wit- 2 Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013 NEWS Online at flyernews.com Online at flyernews.com TICKER Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013 3 CAMPUS THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE ROCKTOBERFEST This week’s Thursday Night Live will ‘PLAYS FOR CHANGE’ feature music from Colin Franklin, This year’s Rocktoberfest will take place Michael Cullum and Jimmy Nickele- Saturday, Sept. 21, from 6 to 11 p.m. Gomez. The entertainment will begin at the ArtStreet Amphitheatre. The Thursday, Sept. 19, at 8 p.m. at the concert will celebrate National Play- ArtStreet Cafe. For more information, ing for Change Day and will feature DJ contact ArtStreet at (937) 229-5101. Raakmo, Madeline Nugent, Schneider & Co., Libby Gill, Dave Zup and Nine- Ties (formerly Brendan and the Bandits). 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