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Feb 18 FINAL DRAFT:New GSU Front Page 2/18/2014 10:16 PM Page 1 THE Governors State University February 19, 2014 University Park Volume 15 Illinois PHOENIX Issue 2 GSU Celebrates 50th Anniversary of CRA Local athletes compete in Olympics By Brian Bock Staff Writer The Winter Olympics is back, and all the world’s best athletes have convened in Sochi, Russia, to Prominent African-American leaders as well as contributors to African-American history and the Civil Rights prove themselves in their winter Movement- L to R: Elders, Lincoln, Parks, Obama, King, Malcolm X, Kennedy and Rice. sports. The Olympics opening ceremony took place on February By Adam Ebert February also marks the date in racial discrimination and demand 7 at Sochi’s Fisht Olympic Associate Editor which the U.S. House of equal rights/treatment. There were Stadium. The competing 2014 marks the 50th Representatives passed the Civil a number of precursors that led the delegations for the games anniversary of the Civil Rights Act Rights Act (CRA). The CRA way for the CRA to consisted of 88 qualifying being signed into law as well as prohibits institutional forms of eventually be passed into law. countries, introduced in the the 38th year that Black History discrimination concerning race, The milestone 1954 Brown v. traditional procession around the Month has officially been a ethnicity, nationality, religious Board of Education verdict 225,000 square foot stadium. national observance. The month- practices, and gender. The passing deemed segregated schools The host country then put on long remembrance is a chance to and eventual success of the CRA unconstitutional. The Civil Rights an avant-garde performance that celebrate important lives and spread across the world, not only Act helped solidify the legitimacy encapsulated the spirit of the events throughout the history of in the U.S.-sanctioned of that ruling 10 years later, and games and represented Russia’s African diaspora, and is observed Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid allowed black children to receive intricate artistic cultural heritage. not only in the U.S., but also in Act, but also as a standard for equal and adequate schooling. Over 3,000 performers Canada and the UK. individuals to stand up against Continued on page 3 participated in the opening ceremony performance; which North Korea accused of atrocities, crimes included huge choreographed dances and pyrotechnics. against humanity, UN inquiry reports The final ritual of lighting the incredible Sochi Olympic Torch was bestowed on Russian athletes Irina Rodnina and Vladislav Tretiak. The first events of the winter Olympiad were a day before the opening ceremony, and included figure skating, snowboarding, and freestyle skiing. These events were preliminary rounds, and not finals. Each sport has a number of events lasting throughout the games, with cross-country skiing and speed skating holding 12 heats, the most The UN has accused North Korean leader Kim Jong-un of human rights atrocities against his constituents. events of the games. As of this By Jonathan Bulthuis Democratic People’s Republic of of human rights abuses in North Saturday, February 15, a total of Editor Korea has issued a “shocking Korea are being carried out on a 67 events have taken place, and report” that Executive Director of scale unparralleled in the last Germany is leading the gold The 50th Anniversary of the Human Rights Watch Kenneth century except by Nazi Germany, medal count with seven gold Civil Rights Act and the global Roth expects will “open the eyes a UN spokesperson said yesterday. metals. The United States current- unity fostered by the 2014 Sochi of the UN Security Council to the The UN Commision of ly has 4 gold medals, the majority Olympic Winter Games could not atrocities that plague the people of Inquiry’s findings can be of which comes from snowboard- be accompanied by worse news North Korea”. Recently released accessed through the United ing events. Team USA snowboard- than the recent reports of artists depictions of mass-killings, Nations Human Rights website. ers Sage Kotsenburg and Jamie unimaginable crimes against torture, rape, and organized The findings preclude the likely Anderson took the gold humanity in North Korea. A starvation described by victims of indigtment of North Korea’s Kim in the Men’s and Women’s slope United Nations Commision of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un’s Jong-un for crimes against style event. Inquiry on Human Rights in the facist regime indicate that the level humanity by an international court. Continued on page 3 Feb 18 FINAL DRAFT:New GSU Front Page 2/18/2014 10:16 PM Page 2 Staff Editorial Editorial Letter from the Letter from the Editor Student Trustee enough to attend his own incredible funeral; and he probably would have admired the spirit of the passionate To the Millenials: “interpreter” signing away The world is in constant flux incoherently for the world to see. and it’s worth noting as one He certainly wouldn’t have made analyzes the world around them to By Jonathan Bulthuis a big deal about it; he would have find definitives. The current Editor been smiling, laughing, and generation of college students listening to someone. He would by Kayla Randolph-Clark faces challenges unlike any Nelson Mandela spent his life have been happy to be there. Student Trustee previous generation. However, swimming in a sea of acronyms, We have to do the same. If we that is not to say these current love and hate, and divergent cannot find the solace in our lives As an African-American challenges are any less difficult. political figures. He allied himself to appreciate our natural civil woman and a supporter of cultural Much like the 1940s-1970s, the with revolutionary movements that liberties, our personal well-being, exchange, I encourage everyone to U.S. is currently engaged in would at times fall upon each our securities, our privilege, and take part in learning more about overseas conflicts. The economy other in bitter partisan rivalries, our incredible potential, then a the heritage of their ancestors and and business infrastructure of the and at times rise up as a unified part of Mandela’s inspirational of others. To celebrate Black country has changed, arguably for front to implement lasting and life’s work is lost to us. History Month, GSU has offered a the worst. Young people today are holistic social change. Mandela We are the children of the multitude of programs and navigating the world altogether altered the course of human events future that live in the free world - activities for our campus differently. The concept of true with his stubborn tenacity and an at least a very big part of it - that community to enjoy. They range ownership, be it a home or a uncommon ability to arbitrate the Mahatma, Dr. King, and from educational to entertaining vehicle, is evading their grasp, serious social problems calmly Madiba dreamed of, and our cir- events, and if you’ve missed out leading individuals to rent and and diplomatically. He spent cumstances warrant gratitude; for on some of them during the share property. The challenges thirty years of his life in prison. our civil liberties, our leaders, beginning of the month, there’s may be different and possibly less He captured the world’s and the protections that our con- still time to get in on all the severe, but they matter just as conscience and the hearts and stitution affords. action. much.Yet, strong examples of support of the South African We also live in a world where On February 27th, the leadership are too often hard to people, and he has received so the conditions of life for some are MLK Celebration will be held in come by and in finding leaders, many awards from foreign so dire and so horrible that we the Center for Performing Arts at Millenials may only better define dignitaries that it would be consider it unfit to discuss it. The 10 a.m., highlighting and themselves. superfluous to identify them all atrocities perpetuated by North memorializing the work, The staff of the Phoenix is also here. By the time of his death, he Korea’s facist regime are beyond accomplishments, and legacy of continuing to define itself, but also had become an iconic reason, beyond humanity, and the one of the greatest Civil Rights understands that some individuals representation of resilience, outcome of his potential and African American leaders in need even the tiniest pleasantries patience, morality, and prosecution by the international modern history. There will also be to survive. Many students struggle righteousness from Lesotho to community will play a deciding student displays in the Hall of to make ends meet, working long Seattle. He was a funny guy, and role in the standard of global civil Governors from 2:00-7:00 p.m. hours with often little reward. everybody liked him. rights that will be set for the illustrating the development of They will raise children, provide So how do students at a state future.