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(12/07/07 5:00am)
When junior Jordan Giordano took on the job of executive vice president, his goal was to increase the efficacy of Duke Student Government's Senate.
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When junior Jordan Giordano took on the job of executive vice president, his goal was to increase the efficacy of Duke Student Government's Senate.
Twenty-six students have received pre-litigation letters from the Recording Industry Association of America as part of its most recent effort to combat illegal file sharing.
No longer working out of a dormitory room in the Gothic Wonderland, Stephen Miller, Trinity '07, has caused a stir with his latest project. Less than one year out of Duke, Miller, cofounder of the Terrorism Awareness Project and a former Chronicle columnist, launched the first ever Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. "The purpose of [the week] is to combat ignorance about the threat of radical Islam... and the danger posed to America and her people by Jihadists," Miller said. The student-led initiative, which began Monday and ends today, featured speakers and movie showings related to Islamic terrorism at colleges across the country. Miller said he named the week to call attention to his view that the main terrorist threat to America is religiously motivated. "We're not simply up against terrorists, we're up against violent Islamic fascists," he said. Several organizations have taken issue with the event, saying it unfairly stereotypes all Muslims as terrorists. "Really what you've got is a collection of every Muslim basher and Islamophobe in the nation on a lecture tour trying to drum up hostility toward Islam," said Ibrahim Hooper, the national communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, D.C.-based Islamic advocacy organization. Closer to home, opposition to the event was also strong. "If Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week bears any resemblance to David Horowitz's past ventures, I see no purpose in such an event but the spread of fear and hate," senior Ramsey Wehbe, president of Duke's Arab Students' Organization, wrote in an e-mail. Similarly, senior Nader Mohyuddin, co-outreach chair of Duke's Muslim Students Association, characterized the week as "a lot of fear mongering." Although events were not held at Duke, the Duke Conservative Union and Duke College Republicans plan to co-host a Terrorism Awareness Week in the spring. Organizers modified the name of Miller's event because the original is "rather inflammatory," said sophomore David Bitner, president of DCU. "We want people to remember the events and speakers, not controversy over the name of the week," College Republicans Chair Sam Tasher, a junior, wrote in an e-mail. Still, Bitner had only accolades for the former chair of DCU. "It's just amazing to watch and see how he would just make things happen, just pull them out of thin air," he said. Terrorism Awareness Week will involve both movie showings and speakers on terrorism-related subjects. Currently, the two organizations are attempting to raise funds to draw a major speaker to the event, Tasher said. Both Tasher and Bitner said they want to involve many other campus organizations in planning events for the week, adding that one of their main goals is to decrease ignorance about terrorism. "We've already been in contact with Duke Friends of Israel and the Muslim Students Association," Bitner said. "It will be a time for pulling together, so hopefully, at Duke at least, we can have a semblance of unity." Though planning for the week is just beginning, MSA leaders said they are optimistic about the prospects for collaboration. "We could easily and very vocally come together and condemn terrorism," Mohyuddin said.
"It's always good to beat UNC," head coach Norm Ogilvie said after his team's strong finish Friday at the Blue Ridge Open in Boone, N.C.