10 The DePaulia.
February 14, 2011
Nation & World
TIMELINE OF A
REVOLUTION
Power, rage and tears of joy
spill across Egypt
Thousands protest nationwide; governent
shuts down Internet access; organizers
call protests, “the day of revolution
against torture, poverty, corruption, and
unemployment.”
Protesters burn down ruling party's
headquarters; protests turn into riots.
Omar Suleiman named vice president.
Mubarak swears in new cabinet, a gesture
met with scorn by protesters.
Entire leadership of Egypt's ruling party,
including Gamal Mubarak, son of the
president, resign.
Vice President Suleiman agrees to
concessions such as freedom of the press and
to release detained protesters.
Defying expectations, Mubarak says he
will not step down but will hand over some
powers to his vice president now and transfer
all power in September after the election.
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt resigns
turning over all power to the military; leaves
Cairo for his resort home in Sharm el-Sheik;
hundreds of thousands celebrate outside
Mubarak's main palace chanting, “the people
ousted the regime.”
Compiled by Rachel Metea | Photos courtesy of The Associated Press
JAN. 27, 2011
JAN. 28, 2011
JAN. 29, 2011 An Egyptian mother hugs her child as she watches some thousands of Egyptian protest-
ers gather at Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, with the ruling National
Democratic party building burned at top right behind the red coloured Egypt museum.
JAN. 31, 2011
FEB. 3, 2011 CHAOS IN EGYPT,
FEB. 5, 2011
FEAR IN CHICAGO
FEB. 8, 2011
By KATHERINE TELLEZ
& KRISTEN AGUIRRE
After weeks of violence, Egypt's historic revolution
pushed President Hosni Mubarak to resign from his
30-year presidency last Friday.
FEB. 9, 2011 Fear has spread to the DePaul community, as some
students have said the protests may affect their future.
Some Egyptians living away from the revolution
have said it is hard to be apart from their country
during a time of chaos.
“When I think of my future, I don’t know what
I’m going to do,” said Egyptian Sayed ElSalamony,
who is studying economics and finance at DePaul.
ElSalamony, who is here on a student visa, said he
is worried what state his country will be in when he
returns home.
FEB. 10, 2011
Mubarak addressed his nation last week in a
televised statement announcing that he would not step
down from his presidency—despite three weeks of
protests calling for his resignation. Expectations that
Mubarak was to resign that night led to more violence
revolts in Cairo. The following day, Vice President
Suleiman announced Mubarak had resigned.
“Psychologically it is affecting me,” said
ElSalamony. “I just can’t see my country fall apart in
front of my eyes and not be there because I’m here
and not there, and that’s really frustrating,” he said.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen. I don’t
know where the country’s going, or where the
economy is going, where the political side is going…
is it going to go into a better state? That’s what we’re
FEB. 11, 2011 trying to figure out,” ElSalamony said.
Prior to Mubarak's resignation, Scott Hibbard said,
“In my personal opinion, the sooner Hosni Mubarak
leaves the better off Egypt will be.” Hibbard, a
political science professor at DePaul, said, “There are
different ways that can unfold, but he’s really become
the face of the old regime and the face of everything
that’s wrong.”
Citizen protests against the old regime erupted on
Photo courtesy of The Associated Press
Jan. 25 when the people demanded Egypt’s economic
situation and government change. Hibbard said that
while getting Mubarak out of power may be the first
step in Egypt’s revolution, addressing the country’s
economic situation needs to come next.
“I really hope to see a more vibrant economy,”
Hibbard said. According to Hibbard, there is an
enormous—but poorly distributed—amount of
wealth in Egypt and in the region. “What you have
is the absence of a free and open market, and that’s
contributing to mass poverty,” Hibbard said.
Egypt’s transition period has been said to be
affecting the Arab population as a whole. Faten
Bushehri, a recent DePaul graduate of Arabic descent
said she believes the Arab community should support
Egypt during this time of distress.
“Arabs usually tend to stick together and support
each other because it’s one region—and what happens
in one country affects the other countries,” Bushehri
said.
As an Arab-American, Bushehri said she feels
that it is only right that she and others in the Arab
community back Egypt’s revolution in hopes to
spread democracy.
“We’re supporting other countries that are fighting
for their freedom,” Bushehri said. “In America it’s all
about democracy and freedom—and that’s something
that we try to promote to people in other countries. It
would only make sense to support Egyptians to fight
for their freedom.” With a president who has been in
power for nearly thirty years, Busheri said it’s about
time.
While Egypt may be on the road to democracy, they
are still only at the beginning stages of their journey,
said Hibbard. But he still has hope for the country’s
transition.
“At this stage the future is yet to be written” he
said. “Some change will happen. The question is
how much change and how significant. There is a
movement for change and I think it is long overdue
for the region,” Hibbard said.

This week in world news
1 NEW DELHI — India and
Pakistan announced Thurs-
day they would resume wide-rang-
ing peace talks that were frozen
after the 2008 terrorist attacks in
the Indian city of Mumbai, which
were blamed on Pakistan-based
militants.
The U.S. has been pressing the
nuclear-armed rivals to restart their
peace efforts in hopes that reduc-
ing tensions along their border
would free Pakistan to focus on its
fight against Taliban militants — a
key element of U.S. strategy in Af-
ghanistan.
The decision followed talks be-
tween the foreign secretaries of the
two countries, the latest in a year-
long string of meetings intended to
rebuild the nations' shattered trust.
A statement released simultane-
ously in New Delhi and Islamabad
said the new talks would focus on
counterterrorism, humanitarian is-
sues, peace and security, the dis-
puted Kashmir region and other
border issues.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf
Raza Gilani welcomed the talks
and praised his Indian counterpart,
Manmohan Singh, for the "opening
of a new chapter in the relations be-
tween the two countries."
But there is little expectation of
a rapid agreement to end the six
decade conflict between the bitter
rivals. Even if negotiators man-
aged to bridge the gaps on every-
thing from regional water sharing
to sovereignty over a disputed
creek, there is no guarantee that
the shaky Pakistani government, or
even the more stable Indian admin-
istration, could sell such a deal to
their parliaments and their people.
TOKYO — Fresh off a
6 gambling scandal that deeply
sullied its image, Japan's national
sport of sumo wrestling is now
grappling with allegations that
senior wrestlers and coaches used
cell phones to plan how to fix bouts.
Police have found text messages
on confiscated mobile phones that
implicate as many as 13 wrestlers
in schemes to fix matches, the
Japan Sumo Association and
Japanese media said Wednesday.
One reportedly went into detail
about how he would attack and
how he wanted his opponent to fall.
The text messages, found on the
phones of a wrestler and a coach,
indicate that the wrestlers routinely
fixed bouts and charged hundreds
of thousands of yen (thousands of
dollars) per match to do so.
Sumo has been dogged by
scandals over the past few years
and has seen its popularity
nosedive.
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WASHINGTON — The
3
House on Tuesday failed to
extend the life of three surveillance
tools that are key to the nation's
post-Sept. 11 anti-terror law, a
slipup for the new Republican
leadership that miscalculated the
level of opposition.
The House voted 277-148 to
keep the three provisions of the
USA Patriot Act on the books until
Dec. 8. But Republicans brought up
the bill under a special expedited
procedure requiring a two-thirds
majority, and the vote fell short.
The Republicans, who took
over the House last month, lost
26 of their own members, adding
to the 122 Democrats who
voted against it. Supporters say
the three measures are vital to
preventing another terrorist attack,
CALCUTTA, India — Members and activists of the Socialist Unity Center of India but critics say they infringe on
2 burn effigies of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, left, and President Barack Obama civil liberties. They appealed to
during a solidarity march on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. the antipathy that newer and more
conservative Republicans hold
for big government invasions of
individual privacy.
Earlier on Tuesday, Republicans
also pulled a bill from the floor
because of dissatisfaction about
extending trade benefits for three
4 South American countries while
continuing a program that helps
3 6 retrain Americans who lose their
1 2 jobs to foreign competition.
The Patriot Act bill would have
5 renewed the authority for court-
approved roving wiretaps that
permit surveillance on multiple
phones. Also addressed was
Section 215, the so-called library
records provision that gives the
FBI court-approved access to
"any tangible thing" relevant to a
terrorism investigation.
4 LONDON — WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange ap-
peared in court Monday for a show-
down with Swedish authorities to
fight an extradition bid over sex
crimes allegations.
Assange is accused of sexual
misconduct by two women he met
during a visit to Stockholm last
year. Defense lawyers will argue
that he should not be extradited
because he has not been charged
with a crime, because of flaws in
Swedish prosecutors' case — and
because a ticket to Sweden could
eventually land him in Guantanamo
5 JUBA, Sudan — The mud-hut town of Juba has earned a promo- Bay or on U.S. death row.
tion to world capital later this year. Only Southern Sudan needs far American officials are trying to
more than its own currency and a national anthem: Most of the roads here build a criminal case against the
are dirt and even aid workers live in shipping containers. secret-spilling site, which has an-
In a little more than five months, Southern Sudan is slated to become gered Washington by publishing a
the world's newest country. Final results from last month's independence trove of leaked diplomatic cables
referendum announced on Monday show that 98.8 percent of the ballots and secret U.S. military files. As-
cast were for secession from Sudan's north. sange's lawyers claim the Swedish
Juba is oil-rich but lacks the embassies and skyscrapers of other world prosecution is linked to the leaks
capitals. There was only a mile or two of pavement here just a year ago, and politically motivated.
and the local archives are stored in a tent. Many, though, see great po-
tential, and are excitedly looking forward to controlling their own destiny.
Entrepreneur Soloman Chaplain Lui, 42, is overseeing the construction
of 160 apartments and hotel rooms on a rocky bluff overlooking Juba. The
country's largest swimming pool sits here, though its water is murky. His
arm points toward empty fields where he hopes to one day build a mall
and a golf course.
"As I talk to you now there are many people flowing here," he said. "A
new country is being born."
Two decades of war between the predominantly Muslim north and reb-
els in the Christian-animist south killed at least 2 million people before a
2005 peace agreement was reached. Residents are jubilant to have their
own country at last, though much work remains.
Compiled by Rachel Metea | Photos and news courtesy of The Associated Press
10 The DePaulia. January 24, 2011
‘Gringos’ begin service work in Mexico
By MARGARET THOMPSON
Before last Wednesday, I had only
seen neighborhoods like Mérida’s
Emiliano Zapata Sur in books, in
movies, on television, and through the
bus window. I wasn’t sure what to expect
when my group members and I stepped
off the bus in front of Marista University
on the south side of the city, where we
would be taking our service-learning
course and volunteering with the local
residents. 
I had to dodge a decomposing cat
in the gutter before stepping onto
the sidewalk (not the greatest initial
observation, but hey… dead cats aren’t
exclusive to the developing world).
We began our assigned neighborhood
promenade hesitantly, feeling more like
a conspicuous imposition than a group of
humble college students. 
There was an eerie silence in the
streets, and the smell of incinerated
garbage hung in the air – there is very
limited trash collection in Emiliano
Zapata Sur, so residents burn their waste
outside.
As we walked beside a row of
windowless homes, most of which
were made of cement and roofed with
scrap metal, I was careful to look inside
without catching the eyes of inhabitants.
Most of the houses appeared to be
single rooms with unfinished floors.
There was music emanating from many
of them, and few times I heard the low
murmur of a television set. Towels were
draped here and there to keep the bugs
out, and cinderblocks served as stairs
on most porches. Occasionally, a house
would be painted, usually a bright hue
similar to those in neighborhoods on the
north side.   Despite my apparent discomfort, the
It was impossible to avoid eye
contact with the residents in their yards
Internet surpasses TV as main news source for young adults
By VI NGUYEN
Two years ago the Internet surpassed
newspapers as the main news source
for Americans. Although television’s
popularity remained higher than
Internet, its numbers quickly began to
fall. And now, the Internet has surpassed
television as a main news source for
young adults.
According to a national survey
conducted by the Pew Research Center
(PRC), since 2007, the number of 18
to 29-year-olds citing the Internet as
their main news source for national and
international news has nearly doubled
to 65 percent. Over this time period, the
numbers of those who said television
was their prime news source dropped to
52 percent.
“TV network news demographics
have been changing for years,” said
journalism professor, Mike Reilley.
“Viewers are getting older and lifestyle
and technology changes have impacted
viewership of the 5:30 p.m. news.”
However, television news is still
dominates among less educated young
people. According to the PRC, just 29
percent of those with no more than a
high school education cited the Internet
as their main news source, while
three-quarters of the respondents cited
television.
While Reilley said the Pew study
didn’t surprise him, he said, “it does
tie quantitative research to what we’ve
long known—the web and mobile
technologies are delivering news faster
and differently than traditional media,
Nation & World
EDITORIAL
Photo by Rachel Metea
Children in Emiliano Zapata Sur line up as they wait to take a crack at breaking open a pinata on
Mar. 23, 2010.
or sitting in doorways. I don’t know nearly all of them greeted us with buenas the neighborhood dogs ran and chased
why I felt like I should – I suppose I tardes. They were outside hanging one another harmlessly in the streets. 
felt pretty voyeuristic wandering down laundry on their clotheslines, inside The people of Emiliano Zapata Sur
the street with a notebook in hand. It cooking on their stovetops, or arriving weren’t angry we were there, at least not
seemed wrong to walk in front of them home from work.  noticeably. They didn’t scoff at the large
wearing new clothes and a backpack Children played outside, laughing group of gringos walking on their turf,
with a laptop computer inside. If I lived the same way children laugh behind and I never heard one catcall.
in Emiliano Zapata Sur, I’m quite sure white picket fences in the United States. They were just people. Regular,
I would resent the people who walked On porches, teenage girls painted their friendly, hospitable people – doing
through observing my poverty. toenails and mothers rocked their babies the same things that regular, friendly,
to sleep next to large shrines to the hospitable people do in my own
people of Emiliano Zapata Sur were Virgin Guadalupe. Small family-owned neighborhood at home. And suddenly, I
welcoming; they smiled, waved and tiendas sold cold drinks and snacks, and felt very much at ease. 
including TV news.” Many young adults
Ricky Green, a senior finance student say the Internet makes
said he gets his news from iGoogle. it convenient for those
, “Users are able to personalize their always on the go to
Google homepage by customizing their check their news on
news preference,” Green said. “I can put their smart phones.
in all the big news websites onto one Krystina Andreoli,
page with the top five to fifteen stories a junior vocal
from each website into my feed.” performance major,
With more and more young adults is no stranger to
turning to the Internet for their news, mobile web browsing.
many are beginning to wonder what is “Most people have
to come for broadcast news. Internet services
“As someone who grew up watching on their phones.
Walter Cronkite on network news It makes it easier
as well as local evening and night to access the news
newscasts, I’m disappointed to see because college kids
the sea change,” Reilley said. “I think are on the go, and
we are a smarter, better-served news like, don’t have time
consumer when we draw information to sit and watch
from multiple platforms,” Reilley said television,” she said.
making reference to what he called, “the Senior finance
depth of newspapers, the immediacy student Green
of TV and radio, and the multimedia agreed with Andreoli.
aspects of online storytelling.” “I don’t watch
Andrew Treffy, a recent DePaul television for any
English graduate said he is convinced news, other than to
that television will find a way to evolve to turn on ESPN.”
the rapidly changing media. “Television Despite television
still has somewhat of a chance to utilize news’ falling numbers,
the medium of the Internet through Reilley said stories will
Internet viral marketing and such.” always need to be told on
Most news networks have done so its medium. “I think there
by working with the Internet by taking will always be a place for TV
advantage and utilizing various forms news,” he said, “especially on
of social media to break news stories. the local level”
“News networks are well aware of the “As long as advertisers still see
shift. It’s most likely that they’re going it as a valid option, and the audience
to work with, and adapt to the change in doesn’t completely vanish,” Reilley
media source, rather than fight against said, “the medium will remain in some
it,” said Treffy. form.”
Graphic courtesy of MCT Wire Services

This week in world news
1 NEW YORK — Federal au-
thorities orchestrated one
of the biggest Mafia takedowns in
FBI history Thursday, charging 127
suspected mobsters and associ-
ates in the Northeast with murders,
extortion and other crimes spanning
decades.
Past investigations have resulted
in strategic strikes aimed at crip-
pling individual crime families. This
time, authorities used a shotgun
approach, with some 800 federal
agents and police officers mak-
ing scores of simultaneous arrests
stemming from different mob inves-
tigations in New York, New Jersey
and Rhode Island.
"Members and associates of La
Cosa Nostra are among the most
dangerous criminals in our country," 2 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA — A Hindu devotee gets pierced with a metal rod during
the Thaipusam festival at Batu Caves. Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. The festival is rooted
Attorney General Eric Holder said.
"The very oath of allegiance sworn in Hindu legend and was brought from southern India by 19th century immigrants who came
to the Malaysian peninsula to work in rubber estates and government offices.
by these Mafia members during
their initiation ceremony binds them
to a life of crime."
In the past, the FBI has aggres-
sively pursued and imprisoned the
leadership of the city's five Italian
mob families, only to see ambitious
underlings fill the vacancies, said
Janice Fedarcyk, head of the FBI's
New York office.
"We deal in reality, and the reality
is that the mob, like nature, abhors
a vacuum," she said.
However, the FBI has gained a
recent advantage by cultivating a
crop of mob figures willing to wear
wires and testify against gangsters
in exchange for leniency in their own
cases.
"The vow of silence that is part
of the oath of omerta is more myth
than reality today," she said.
Nairobi, KENYA — Scores of protesters gathered at
Freedom Corner on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 to begin
7 a campaign to collect 1 million signatures in support
of the International Criminal Court. ICC Prosecutor
Luis Moreno Ocampo has publicly named six high-ranking
government officials and prominent Kenyans as the people
who bear the greatest responsibility for violence that
followed the December 2007 election in which more than
1,000 people were killed.
In the aftermath of the disputed election, a mob set fire
to a church where hundreds were taking refuge. Stone-
throwing gangs wielding machetes killed scores of people,
and police fatally shot protesters.
Several opinion polls conducted in the past year show
broad public support for the ICC process, though, and
critics warn such a delay would prevent justice for the more
than 1,000 people killed during weeks of rioting and ethnic
clashes.
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4 tor of the John L. Thornton China
3 1
5 6
7 2
5 ATLANTA — Federal authorities are
highlighting Atlanta's emergence as a hub
in human trafficking along the East Coast as
they try to raise awareness about the problem
and generate tips from the public.
Brock Nicholson of U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement for Georgia and the
Carolinas says human trafficking has been
increasing in the Atlanta area and the crimes
are often hard to uncover because many victims
won't come forward.
Nicholson said victims often fear beatings
from traffickers or arrest and deportation by
authorities if they try to escape. He stressed
that authorities will not punish or deport victims.
Nicholson said two troubling new trends are
that victims are getting younger, some as young
as 14, and traffickers are increasingly using
violence to control victims.
6 WASHINGTON — A U.S. official says
the Obama administration will soon
increase the use of military trials for prisoners
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And it will set up
a parole-type system to review the cases of
prisoners who are not expected to get such
trials.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity
because the plan has not yet been announced.
He said Defense Secretary Robert Gates
is expected to soon lift a 2-year-old order that
blocked any new cases from being started
against terrorism suspects at Guantanamo.
President Barack Obama is expected to sign
an executive order setting up the parole-type
system.
The ban on new cases was put in place just
after Obama's 2009 inauguration because he
planned to close the prison. But his efforts have
been thwarted by Congress.
Compiled by Rachel Metea | Photos and news courtesy of The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Mayor Richard
3
Daley's long effort to build
ties with the world's second-largest
economy seemed to pay off Thurs-
day as Chinese President Hu Jintao
arrived for his first visit to Chicago,
his only stop outside Washington
during this trip.
Hu was expected to focus on
economic ties between China and
Chicago during his whirlwind over-
night visit to the city. Experts said
the attention from China has been
the envy of other U.S. cities and
could mark a gigantic — and profit-
able — step forward for both par-
ties, despite the sometimes rocky
U.S.-China relationship.
Many credited Daley's efforts.
The mayor has traveled to China
four times since 2004, touting Chi-
cago as a global transportation hub
with large manufacturing and in-
dustrial sectors friendly to Chinese
business.
"Chicago deserves some kudos.
It's clear that he's (Daley) cultivated
the China relationship and he's
learned how to do that very well,"
said Kenneth Lieberthal, direc-
Center at the Brookings Institution.
"Mayors and governors around the
country, regardless of their politics,
see China as a source of potential
capital, markets and jobs. So you
better be ones looking to have the
president of China come here."
Daley characterized the visit as
a "big, big, big, big, big deal," at a
news conference last week.
Aside from business, Hu's visit
was expected to help increase
awareness of Chicago and tourism.
4 BERLIN — Germany's capital turned its attention
to fashion this week, with 2012 winter collections
on the runway starting Wednesday at Berlin Fashion
Week and emerging designers showing off their edgy
pieces at the streetwear trade show known as Bread
& Butter. A model (above) presents a creation of the
fashion designer Dawid Tomaszewski.
Berlin Fashion Week, which often struggles in
comparisons to the better known, well-established
couture presentations in Paris or Milan, defines itself
as a showcase for young and local designers.
 10 The DePaulia. January 10, 2011

Nation & World

New law targets Illinois politics
By NATALIE FICEK
Illinois has been called the “wild
west” because of its unregulated politi-
cal campaigns that escalated to unfair ad-
vantages and domination for the highly
sponsored political parties. However, the
New Year began with a new set of laws
in Illinois that will limit the amount of
money that can be contributed to politi-
cal candidates and political action com-
mittees.
This is a good first step for less cor-
ruption in Ill., said political science pro-
fessor Zachary Cook. “The law might
help protect honest businesses from be-
ing pressured by political figures to give
them significant contributions in the
forms of bribes,” Cook said. Although
the law will be very relevant to candi-
dates running for governor, Cook said,
the law may have little impact on up-
coming elections because the contribu-
tion limits are still relatively high for a
candidate.
During the 2005-2006 elections, Rod
Blagojevich’s campaign collected $18
million and his opponent, Judy Topinka,
collected $9.5 million. The new law
comes after Blagojevich's arrest, im-
peachment and indictment on block-
buster government corruption charges.
During Blagojevich’s era, Illinois was
one of five states in which there were no University majoring in political sci-
boundaries for political contributions. ence, worked on Obama’s campaign in
Contributions to all candidates by Cincinnati, Ohio. His perception of
individuals have now been limited to a Illinois before coming here was
maximum of $5,000 per election. Busi- that it was not the cleanest
nesses and associations are limited to state in sense of poli-
$10,000 per candidate and political ac- tics. “This law would
tion committees are limited to no more be beneficial for the
than $50,000 per candidate. The impact voters because the
of this limitation of money contributed people, rather than
to political candidates will be assessed businesses and as-
to determine future precautions and re- sociations, would
quirements for elections. gain more
Bruce Newman, a DePaul professor interest on
who specializes in political marketing, the politi-
said the new law will level the playing cal candi-
field to give those that do not receive dates,”
significant amounts of money a fair op- Evers said.
portunity to compete in elections. This Governor
will encourage the political candidates Patrick Quinn
to follow the “Obama motto” of using signed the new legislation
the Internet to collect contributions, he into law on Dec. 9. Candi-
said. According to Newman, this method dates will be required to
will enable political candidates to col- file campaign ex-
lect money from more people rather than penditure and
collecting a significant amount of money contribution
from just one organization. reports every
“This law will affect political parties three months
because the candidates will not rely on instead of every
one organization for support and will six months.
gain support from the people,” Newman
said.
Michael Evers, a junior at DePaul Graphics courtesy of The Associated Press

Una mentira innecesaria EDITORIAL

By RACHEL METEA,
Nation & World Editor
La Decepción y las
pastillas falsas se han
utilizado durante mucho
tiempo por muchos médicos
cuando necesitaban curar
a sus pacientes. Conocido
como el efecto placebo,
los pacientes llegan a
sentirse mejor a través
de la creencia de que se
tomó un medicamento
real. Pero ahora, la nueva
investigación sugiere que
este método funciona
incluso cuando los
pacientes saben que están
tomando medicamentos
placebo.
La falta de honradez
en el uso de placebos con
los pacientes fue revelado
para que los médicos de
EE.UU. puedan usarlo
comúnmente de una
manera ética y permisible,
según se encuentra en un
estudio publicado en el
British Medical Journal
en el 2008. Alrededor de
la mitad de los médicos
estadounidenses informó
la prescripción de placebos
en lugar de la medicina
actual y sobre una base
regular. Según el estudio,
los médicos que utilizan
tratamientos con placebo
lo describen comúnmente
como un medicamento
potencialmente beneficioso
para los pacientes, o como
un tratamiento que se
suele utilizar para s u
personas en su condición.
En respuesta a esta
práctica que “viola los
principios éticos”, lea su
informe, los investigadores
de Osher, Centro de
Medicina de Harvard de la
Escuela de Investigación
y Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center, analizaron
si es posible obtener
beneficios del efecto
placebo de manera honesta.
El estudio dividió a 80
pacientes con síndrome de
intestino irritable (SII) en
dos grupos: un grupo fue
informado que las pastillas
que tomaban dos veces al
día eran píldoras “falsas”,
mientras que el otro
grupo no recibió ningún
tratamiento
Después de tres
semanas, casi el doble
de pacientes tratados
con placebo presentó un
adecuado alivio de los
síntomas en comparación
con aquellos que no
recibieron el tratamiento.
Además, los pacientes
que tomaron el placebo
duplicaron sus tasas de
mejora en un grado más
o menos equivalente
al de los efectos de los
medicamentos más
potentes para el SII.
Los investigadores
dejaron “absolutamente
claro” a los participantes
que estaban recibiendo
tratamiento con pastillas
Student kicks off study abroad
placebo, dijo Dr. Ted
Kaptchuk, profesor
asociado de medicina en
Harvard Medical School
y Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center. Sin
embargo, a pesar de
que las pastillas fueron
administradas a los
pacientes en una botella
que decía: “placebo” en
toda su superficie, se les
dijo que la droga había
sido demostrada en
ensayos clínicos rigurosos
para producir importantes
procesos de auto-curación
en mente-cuerpo.
For a translation of this
article, go to:
depauliaonline.com
By MARGARET THOMPSON
The thermometer outside the kitchen
window read ten degrees below zero
yesterday morning. By the time I arrived
at the Denver International Airport, my
feet were slowly regaining circulation
inside my snow-covered black flats –
the only closed-toed shoes that would
be making the trip to Mérida, Mexico
with me.
I hadn’t felt such a puzzling
combination of anxiety and excitement
since leaving Greeley, Colorado for
DePaul a year and a half ago. I was
trying hard to focus on the essentials
– check bags, get boarding pass, don’t
drop it, etc. – but this was becoming
increasingly difficult due to the non-
stop barrage of questions running
through my head. What if all of my
classes were taught in Spanish? (Mi
español es muy terrible…) What if I
slept in a hammock tied to two palm
trees and drank nothing but coconut
milk? What if my host family was part
of some Mayan cult in which ancestor
worship and human sacrifice were still
customary?
Upon arriving in Mérida, I was hit
by a blanket of warm, fresh, humid
air. There’s nothing quite like your
first breath in the tropics. My clothes
immediately felt too heavy and every
odor in my surroundings was enhanced.
My skin felt moist all over and I couldn’t
imagine ever applying lotion again.
Even at night, the colors of the
city were stunning. The term “concrete
jungle” took on a whole new meaning –
it was truly an urban rainforest. I didn’t
realize how accustomed I was to neutral
colored buildings in the States. Every
structure in Mérida seemed to be a
unique color – bright orange, baby blue,
and lime green were commonplace.
Despite the foreign nature of the
architecture and landscape, many
buildings were adorned with Christmas
decorations and a giant Christmas tree
was situated in the center of el Paseo de
Montejo, Mérida’s main street.
I slept like a rock when we got back
to the hotel, and woke up this morning
eager to see Mérida in the daylight.
Before leaving the hotel, I brushed my
teeth with bottled water – the amoebas
in the tap water don’t take well to
gringos.
During our bus tour, there was no
hiding the fact that I was new to the
city. I snapped photos ceaselessly from
beginning to end like a kid in a candy
store. Every building was unique,
every plaza was filled with beautiful
monuments, and it seemed like every
other car on the road was an old-
fashioned VW Bug. I grew increasingly
excited and nervous as the tour drew to
a close – meeting our host families was
the next scheduled event.
We arrived back at the hotel in the
afternoon, where our host mothers were
to pick us up and take us to our new
“casas.” Our resident director, Claudia
Chapas, met us in the lobby. “Are you
ready to meet your host mothers?” she
asked.
That’s all I have time to write for now.
Stay tuned, DePaul, for more articles
from Mérida soon! Adios amigos.

This week in world news
5Secretary
WASHINGTON — Defense
Robert Gates an-
nounced Thursday he will cut
$78 billion from the Pentagon's
budget in the next five years
— money that will come from
shrinking the military's ground
force, increasing health care
premiums for troops and other
politically unpopular cost-saving
measures.
The plan also identifies a
separate $100 billion in savings,
including the cancellation of a
$14 billion amphibious Marine
1led byABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Youths raise their hands in a show of support for Laurent Gbagbo at a rally
Gbagbo minister and youth leader Charles Ble Goude. While the United Nations and other world
vehicle. However, the services powers recognize rival Alassane Ouattara as the winner of November presidential elections, Gbagbo has
will be allowed to reinvest that
refused to step down for more than a month after the presidential runoff vote. The 15-nation regional bloc
money in new weapon sys- ECOWAS has threatened to remove the incumbent leader if ongoing negotiations fail.
tems and programs that benefit
troops, he said.
The move is part of a broader
effort to trim fat from themilitary's
mammoth half-trillion annual
budget in light of the nation's bal-
looning deficit.
"''We are not exempt from
scrutiny and being asked to fig-
ure out what we are doing with
less dollars," Gates told report-
ers.
But parts of the plan are
likely to run into serious opposi-
tion from Congress. Lawmakers
have fought past proposals to
increase health care premiums
and cut weapons programs that
produce jobs in their states.
4newspaper
TEHRAN, Iran — A state-owned Iranian
says authorities have detained an
American woman on espionage suspicions.
The report Thursday by the IRAN Farsi
daily said she had hidden "spying technology
or a microphone" in her teeth when she was
detained by customs authorities in the border
town of Nordouz in northwestern Iran.
It said she arrived in Iran from neighboring
Armenia without visa.
The report did not say when the woman was
detained.
Memorable quotes from 2010
“This speaks to a bigger picture here
that certainly scares me in terms of
our national security policies. But
obviously we've gotta stand with our
North Korean allies.”
SARAH PALIN, on Glenn Beck's
radio show, talking about North
Korea and South Korea.
“We can't legislate courtesy.”
CLAREMONT COUNCILMAN SAM PEDROZAZA, before council mem-
bers rejected a proposal to ban smoking in some public places such as
outdoor dining areas.
Nation & World. January 10, 2011. The DePaulia 11
2Opposition
CARACAS, Venezuela —
lawmakers gained a
bigger presence and a platform
to challenge Hugo Chavez as
a new National Assembly took
office Wednesday, though the
congress' powers are limited by
a measure letting the president
enact laws by decree.
After having almost no
representation at all in the
outgoing congress due to
a decision to boycott 2005
elections, the opposition now
controls 67 of the National
Assembly's 165 seats. That
means Chavez's allies no longer
have a two-thirds super majority,
the threshold needed to approve
some types of major laws and
appoint Supreme Court justices.
Lawmakers stood and sang
the national anthem at the start
of a raucous inaugural session,
which saw opening speeches
that drew applause and shouts
from the two camps. Pro-Chavez
5 4 lawmakers chanted their slogan
3 "They will not return!" — to which
some opposition lawmakers
2 1 replied that they had, in fact,
returned.
Supporters and opponents of
Chavez both demonstrated near
the National Assembly, while
hundreds of National Guard
troops and police in riot gear
blocked streets.
3CobraSouth Korea (left) — South Korea's AH-1S
helicopter fires rockets during the Army
Aviation Shooting Match in Yangpyoung, South
Korea, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. North Korea
called for "unconditional and early" talks with
rival South Korea to put an end to months of
tensions. Seoul quickly dismissed the offer as
insincere and said it's waiting for an apology for
two deadly attacks blamed on Pyongyang.
“Uh, good evening and welcome to the last
‘Larry King Live.’ It’s hard to say that.”
LARRY KING, From “Larry King Live”.
“I'd like my life back.”
TONY HAYWARD, BP CEO at the time of the Gulf oil spill.
“If [being] a geek means you're willing to study things,
and if you think science and engineering matter, I
plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are
in real trouble.”
BILL GATES, founder of Microsoft.
10 The DePaulia. October 25, 2010
NATION & WORLD
Uncle Sam's
Facebook and
e-mail snooping
powers
Obama administration
moves to strengthen
wiretapping law
By NATALIE FICEK
Federal law enforcement and
national security officials are
preparing to make it easier to tap
into people’s online communica-
tion. If served a wiretap order,
transmitters including encrypted
e-mail transmitters like Black-
Berry, Facebook, and Skype
would be able to be intercepted
and decoded by the government.
Federal law enforcement and
national security officials are ar-
guing that their ability to wiretap
criminals and terrorists is becom-
ing difficult since a lot of com-
munication has gone online. The
Obama administration plans to
submit the bill next year.
“We’re talking about lawfully
authorized intercepts,” said Val-
erie Caproni, the General Coun-
sel for the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation. “We’re not talking
expanding authority. We’re talk-
ing about preserving our ability
to execute our existing authority
in order to protect the public safe-
ty and national security.”
The bill strengthens the Com-
munications Assistance to Law
Enforcement Act. The 1994 law
states that telephone and broad-
band companies must design ser-
vices so the government can con-
duct surveillance on targets after
being presented a court order.
Many DePaul students and fac-
ulty have said that they feel the
bill is a positive thing for the
United States.
Political science professor Pat-
rick Callahan said that it is neces-
sary for the U.S. to gather infor-
mation to prepare itself for future
attacks. Because technology has
progressed, the bill is a logical
advancement, Callahan said.
Journalism professor, Mike
Conklin, said the bill will tough-
en Obama’s image. People who
did not vote for him will see that
he is not soft on these types of is-
sues. However, civil rights are at
stake, Conklin said.
Stephanie Kopalski, a sopho-
more, said she feels that this is
an important tactic to track down
dangerous threats. However, she
said it is unfair for the govern-
ment to tap into private conversa-
tions.
When ignorance isn't bliss
America's lack of religious world knowledge stirs a debate
on whether religion should be taught in public schools
By MICHAEL CORIO and
RACHEL METEA, Nation & World Editor
The average American doesn’t know basic facts about world reli-
gion, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. America’s
lack of religious knowledge has led many to question whether world
religions should be taught as objective, academic inquiries in public
schools.
According to the Pew Research Center (PRC), Americans were
able to correctly answer 50 percent of basic questions about a num-
ber of faith traditions. About half of those surveyed knew the
Koran is the Islamic holy book, that the Dalai
Lama is Buddhist, and that the golden
rule is not one of the Ten Command-
ments. On questions pertaining to
the Bible and Christianity, Jewish
people scored the highest while
Catholics fared the worst.
Overall, only half of Chris-
tians were able to correctly
answer questions pertaining
to their faith. Only 23 percent
of those surveyed knew that
public school teachers can
read from the Bible as an ex-
ample of literature.
America’s lack of religious
knowledge goes hand-in-hand
with a separate PRC study that
revealed the U.S. is the world's
most religious industrialized nation.
According to the Sept. 28 report,
nearly six-in-ten American adults
say religion is "very important" in their
lives.
The PRC report was not the only instance
when concern over Americans’ religious knowledge
has arisen.
The Chicago Council of Global Affairs (CCGA) released a report
earlier this year that said “all too often, Western powers fail to appre-
ciate the consequences of many international conflicts because the
religious resonance is so poorly understood.” “However, Americans
can also employ religion in a way that is irresponsible, wrong, and
can escalate tensions,” the report said.
Claiming that a narrow view of religion will no longer suffice, the
report said that religion must be seen as a social reality that shapes
and is shaped by violent conflict and war, globalization, and democ-
ratization.
Fr. Anthony Dosen, a priest and education professor at DePaul said
he advocates a more comprehensive education of world religions
and Christianity because different belief systems impact how we do
things. “We make decisions on foreign policy with no clue to what
is going on religiously in some of these countries,” Dosen said. Such
misunderstanding can ignite a powder keg of issues, he said.
At DePaul University, undergraduate students are required to take
at least two religion classes in the domains of Religion and Ethical
Questions and Religious Traditions. Although it is the nation’s larg-
est Catholic university, the courses offered explore many different
religions and perspectives.
Fr. Holtschneider, said that from his point of view there are two
reasons that DePaul students are required to take these religious
classes. “There is barely a day when the New York Times does not
carry a story about a place or an issue in the world in which religions
play a role,” he said. “To be an active member of our world, one
must understand the great religions of the world.”
“DePaul is a faith-based university that believes that religion can
play a powerful role in a person’s life,” Fr. Holtschneider said. “Our
religious studies courses do not attempt to convert students, but
they do offer an intellectual and adult study of religion in a way
that enables students to understand these great faiths from the inside
perspective of those who practice them and find them a source of
Graphic by Rachel Metea
meaning.”
With similar reasons to why DePaul embeds religion classes
into its curriculum, many students and faculty members have said
world religions should also be objectively taught in public high
schools.
The president of the DePaul Alliance for Free Thought, Brandi
Stepp, a senior, said that it is important to understand how religious
policy affects social issues. “In a world where we are continuously
fighting over LGBT equality and sex education, people should
understand the role that churches can play in said de-
bates,” she said.
The DePaul Chair of Religious
Studies, James Halstead, said
public high schools should teach
about different religions. “If a
high school curriculum stud-
ies people, the student ought to
learn about the stories, rituals,
beliefs, and values by which
people live, and for which
people are willing to die.”
While devotional Bible
study is prohibited in public
schools, many teachers will use
it as a piece of literature when
teaching in the classroom. The
Bible is taught in 43 states, ac-
cording to the Bible Literacy
Project, which publishes The
Bible and Its Influence, a student
textbook designed for public school
courses on the Bible. Such states, how-
ever, are not required to offer comparative
religious classes or study of other religions,
and many do not provide other offerings to Jew-
ish, Muslim, and students from other religious backgrounds.
This fall, Oklahoma implemented HB 2321, a law encouraging
public school districts to offer Bible literacy courses. Georgia, South
Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas all have laws that call for Bible lit-
eracy in public schools.
Before he was a student at DePaul, digital cinema major Samuel
McClure said he took a Bible literacy class in high school which read
texts in the Bible and analyzed them as literature. “If a discussion
started up in class on literature having to do with religious beliefs,
my teacher would refuse to respond to such questions.” According
to McClure, his school did not offer any other classes on religious
traditions.
Although the Supreme Court often finds it permissible to teach the
Bible as literature in public schools, some Bible study programs that
school districts have instituted have been found unconstitutional.
Judges have frequently concluded that these courses are disguised
efforts to teach a particular understanding of the New Testament.
For a public school class to study the Bible without violating the
Constitution, the class has to include critical rather than devotional
readings that allow open inquiry into the history and content of bibli-
cal passages.
If it’s true that knowledge dispels fear, then teaching about reli-
gions in public high schools could not hurt, said Attorney David Ly-
sik, a visiting professor of religious studies. Doing so could have an
impact on the day-to-day relations with members of non-majority
religions in this country, such as between U.S. Christians and U.S.
Muslims, he said.
Many DePaul professors have said that teaching about religions in
public schools could potentially bring forth issues.
Fr. Dosen said that teaching about different religions in public
schools “becomes a slippery slope due to the fact that each teacher
will talk about the subject out of their own experience,” and added,
“When does it become indoctrination?”
Teaching about religion in public schools should be an elective and
only done if the school has the resources to do it, Lysik said. “Public
schools have a lot of other material that they need to put in their cur-
riculum and material that students need to learn in order to become
successful members of our society,” he said.
“An objective, scientific, academic study of particular religions is
the only approach for a public school to take if it desires to have
courses that deal with religion,” said Lysik.
Teaching religion in public schools has been criticized in the past
for discriminating against atheist students. However, citing the PRC
report that revealed atheists and agnostics knew the most about re-
ligion than other religious groups, Stepp said, “Having these articu-
late, informed students in the classrooms would make for an intel-
lectually challenging experience for all involved.”
“It would do young people good to understand that everything,
even their most deeply held beliefs, should be up for examina-
tion and questioning,” Stepp said. “Such a challenging experience
leads to a more thoughtful populace.”
Graphics courtesy of MCT Wire Services
 Nation & World. October 25, 2010. The DePaulia 11

This Week in World News

6in south
BEIJING — A pregnant woman
China was detained, beaten
and forced to have an abortion just a
month before her due date because
the baby would have violated the
country's one-child limit, her husband
said Thursday.
Construction worker Luo Yanquan
said his wife was taken kicking and
screaming from their home by more
than a dozen people and detained
in a clinic for three days by family
planning officials, then taken to a
hospital and injected with a drug that
killed her baby.
Family planning officials told the
couple they weren't allowed to have
the child because they already have
a 9-year-old daughter, Luo said.
For the last 30 years, China has
limited most urban couples to just
one child in a bid to curb population
growth and conserve its limited
resources. China has the world's
largest population, with more than
1.3 billion people. Couples that flout
the rules face hefty fines, seizure of
their property and loss of their jobs.
Though illegal, police and judicial
authorities often look the other way
when forced abortion cases are
reported and the heavily censored
state media shy away from such
k
news.
Xiao delivered the dead baby on
Oct. 14 but remains hospitalized and
may require emergency surgery to
remove pieces of placenta still in her
uterus, Luo said.
Similar abuses have been reported
in Hebei and Shandong provinces
and in the Guangxi region.
1FrenchPARIS (left & below) —
authorities forced strike-
shuttered fuel depots to reopen
to ensure gasoline supplies, and
the interior minister threatened
Wednesday to send in paramilitary
police to stop rioting on the fringes
of protests against raising the
retirement age to 62.
Youths wearing hoods and
scarves on their faces rampaged
through the Paris suburb of
Nanterre, breaking shop windows
and hurling stones at riot police.
The town has seen clashes in
recent days centered on a high
school that joined the protests.
Months of largely peaceful
demonstrations against the
pension reform have taken a
violent turn in recent days. The
plan is slated for a vote in the
Senate on Thursday, but labor
unions want the government
to renegotiate, saying the bill
threatens the country's hard-
earned social protections.
l j
m o
n

2gangsPRAXEDIS G. GUERRERO, Mexico — There's a new police chief in this violent borderland where drug
have killed public officials and terrified many citizens into fleeing: a 20-year-old woman who hasn't yet
finished her criminology degree.
Marisol Valles Garcia was sworn in Wednesday to bring law and order to a township of about 8,500 that has
been transformed from a string of quiet farming communities into a lawless no man's land. Her predecessor was
gunned down in July 2009 and the town had been unable to find a replacement for more than a year.
Two rival gangs — the Juarez and Sinaloa drug cartels — have been battling for control of its single highway,
a lucrative drug trafficking route along the Texas border.

5featuredKAMPALA, Uganda — The front-page newspaper story
a list of Uganda's 100 "top" homosexuals, with a bright
yellow banner across it that read: "Hang Them." Alongside their
photos were the men's names and addresses.
The article claimed that an unknown but deadly disease was
attacking homosexuals in Uganda, and said that gays were
recruiting 1 million children by raiding schools.
In the days since it was published, at least four gay Ugandans
on the list have been attacked and many others are in hiding,
according to rights activist Julian Onziema. One person named in
the story had stones thrown at his house by neighbors.
After the newspaper hit the streets, the government Media
Council ordered the newspaper to cease publishing — not because
of the newspaper's content, but rather that the newspaper had not
registered with the government. After it completes the paperwork,
Rolling Stone will be free to publish again, said Paul Mukasa,
secretary of the Media Council.
A lawmaker in Uganda introduced a bill a year ago that would
have imposed the death penalty for some homosexual acts and
life in prison for others. An international uproar ensued, and the
bill was quietly shelved.
The legislation was drawn up following a visit by leaders of U.S.
conservative Christian ministries that promote therapy they say
allows gays to become heterosexual.
"Before the introduction of the bill in parliament most people did
not mind about our activities. But since then, we are harassed by
many people who hate homosexuality," said Patrick Ndede, 27.
"The publicity the bill got made many people come to know about
us and they started mistreating us."
3the nation's
PHOENIX — The Arizona state senator who wrote
toughest law against illegal immigrants said
Tuesday he and 13 other state lawmakers are collecting
support from legislators to challenge automatic U.S.
citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.
"This is a battle of epic proportions," the Mesa
Republican said. "We've allowed the hijacking of the
14th Amendment."
He and another Arizona lawmaker did argue that
wording in the amendment that guarantees citizenship
to people born in the U.S. who are "subject to the
jurisdiction" of this country does not apply to the
children of illegal immigrants because such families
don't owe sole allegiance to the U.S.
4Democratic
WILMINGTON, Del. — Republican Christine O'Donnell challenged her
rival Tuesday to show where the Constitution requires separation of
church and state, drawing swift criticism from her opponent, laughter from her
law school audience and a quick defense from prominent conservatives.
The subject of religion and the law came up during their debate at Widener
University Law School as O'Donnell criticized Coons for saying that teaching
creationism in public school would violate the Constitution.
Coons said private and parochial schools are free to teach creationism —
O'Donnell used the term "intelligent design" — but that under the "indispensable
principle" of separation of church and state "religious doctrine doesn't belong in
our public schools."
During the debate, O'Donnell argued that Coons' views on teaching of theories
other than evolution showed that he believes in big-government mandates.
"Talk about imposing your beliefs on the local schools," she said. "You've just
proved how little you know not just about constitutional law but about the theory
of evolution."
Coons said evolution was science, creationism a religious doctrine.
Photos and news compiled from The Associated Press