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Show Monday, April 4,2005 News Editor: Heather Hunt-Wood At A Glance Phone: 626-7655 By Nicholas Gurewitch The Perry B Grondta+her, I Monday, April 4 •4-9 - Native American Emphasis Week •Executive Lecture Series features Rhonda Boren, president and CEO of Mineral Resources International; 5:30 p.m.; WSUDavis Campus, Room 110; free. For more information, call 395-3482. raq war fades from student activists' focus By Brandon Lausch Knight Ridder Tribune Two years after U.S. soldiers stormed into Iraq, and college students protested a new war in the Middle East, thousands of troops are still in Baghdad. But back home, most students have moved on. Street-clogging antiwar demonstrations - and equally strident counterprotests - are gone, at least for now, giving way to activism that concentrates on other foreign-policy concerns, such as humanrights violations and domestic issues. "Especially now with everyone talking about Social Security, I didn't even realize the anniversary was approaching," Niva Kramek, a junior at the University of Pennsylvania, said recently. "It's difficult Crossword to find (war activists). Student interest lies with social issues." Last month, Kramek helped organize the What's Next? conference, a one-day seminar intended to organize progressive students. She said that when she scanned a room full of activists from nearly all of Philadelphia's universities and many others from the region, she couldn't find one antiwar group. And no one was discussing the two-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, which was March 19. On March 5, 2003, hundreds of students in Philadelphia protested the imminent war, and similar scenes played out that month in Washington and elsewhere. But liberal students around the country shifted away from the war and toward domestic policy shortly after the Iraq invasion, said Mark Boren, a professor at the University of North Carolina, Wilm- see Solutions page 7 ACROSS 1 2 3 1 Emulate Perry 14 White 5 Be in the red 17 8 Toy weapon 14 Scottish lake 15 Touch tenderly 16 Surfing the net 17 French obsession 19 Departs 20 III temper 21 Trigger rider 23 Fastidious 24 Unable to sit still 27 Boleyn and Bancroft 29 Put into service 30 Pound or Frost 31 Like a lute 33 Cutoff point 34 University in Ottawa 35 Reddish rash 37 Usurers 41 "Candida" writer 43 Extinct bird 44 Facial components 67 Nero's robe 47 Submerged DOWN 48 "Oedipus _ " 1 Teacher of 49 Letter base Samuel 50 Outmoded 2 Pentagon grp. 51 Melange 3 Rink material 53 Buffoon 4 Believer in a 54 Covered up personal God 55 Greek adviser at 5 Mayberry boy . Troy 6 Paraffin 57 Love and hate, 7 Timeless 8 Synthetic fabrics eg. 9 Single entity 62 Whole 10 Design 63 Very long time 64 Lose one's cool 11 Surrender 12 Anxiety 65 One prone to 13 Fitted together in backtaik a stack 66 Billy __ Williams ington, and author of "Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject." Boren said students were unable to "articulate and organize a cohesive stance" against the war once it began. "Within the U.S. nationalism immediately soared: Those student-citizens opposing the war were vehemently attacked as unpatriotic," Boren said in an e-mail. "The antiwar movement was unprepared for the speed with which U.S. forces overthrew the Hussein regime and the new context of postwar Iraq." Villanova freshman Tom Nardi said the way President Bush treated activists before the war, calling thousands of protesters fringe "focus groups," left an impression on him. "It seems this administration is very opposed to criticism and more concerned with propaganda," he said. "It doesn't seem this administration breeds intellectual debate." Nardi said the collective voice of antiwar students was increasingly silenced because activists could no longer flatly argue for military disengagement. He. said the same would be true even if Democrats controlled the White House and Congress, because "we're too far in at this point to pull out now." Temple University history professor Ralph Young said the government was "morally committed to stabilizing the situation," and added that the lack of a unifying theme among protesters after the war began, and Bush's reelection victory, have stifled war-reiated activism. Wednesday's edition of the Signpost incorrectly identified Jason VanShaar as Jared A. Hansen in a front-page photograph. 59 GO Tuesday, April 5 •Latter-day Saint Student Association sponsors its weekly devotional, featuring Hilary Weeks, LDS singer and songwriter; 10:30 a.m.; LDS Institute of Religion; free. For more information, call 621-1800. •Homelessness panel discussing life as a homeless person; noon; Social Science Building, Room 215; free. •WSU Religion and Ethics weekly forum; 1 p.m.; Shepherd Union Building, Room 218; free. For more informaton, call 626-7947. •WSU women's tennis vs. University of Hawaii; 2 p.m.; tennis courts south of Swenson Gym; free. For more information, call 626-6537. •WSU SpringChoirConcert; 7:30 p.m.;VaJ A. Browning Center, Austad Auditorium; $4.50/$3.50. For more information, call 626-8500. •Student viola recital featuring Jennifer Sova; 7:30 p.m.; Val A. Browning Center, Room 136; free. For more information, call 626-6431. •Apr. 7 - Students in Free Enterprise hosts a seminar on labor laws and OSHA; 6 p.m.; Stewart Stadium, 4th floor; free. For more information, call 626-7926. Monday High: 48] Low: 32 c 61 64 B7 18 Young salmon 22 Receiving public assistance 24 Copycat 25 Words to Nanette 26 Danson and Kennedy 27 Aquarium devices 28 Glinted 31 Funeral figure 32 Also 34 Chefs 36 December 24th or 31 st 38 Cassowary kin •Nontraditional Student Program sponsors "Travel Games for the Family," a workshop with Arene Newman for parents; 6:30 p.m.; Student Union Lain free. 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