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Show Monday, October 17, 2005 At A Glance News Editor: Blair Dee Hodges Phone: 626-7655 Ethnic differences don't affect players Teammates reflect on war in home countries By Maria VJIIasenor editor in chief | The Signpost Wednesday, Oct. 19 Tuesday, Oct. 18 Campus Calendar •"Whose views shape our news?" 5th Annual Public Issues Forum presehted by the Friends of Stewart Library. Features moderator Monday, Oct. 17 " Andy Howell, Standard-Examiner managing editor, and a panel •Arts and humanities month. with Allison Barlow-Hess, WSU communication professor, Jesus •17-19 -Wrestling Club practice; Lopez, Jr., El Estandar editor and 6 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.; Shepherd staff writer, and Oscar Cornejo, El Union Building Room 417; free. Ogdentino editor; 10 a.m.; Stewart Library Special Collections; free. •Blood drive; 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Shepherd Union Building •Latter-day Saint Student Ballroom A; free. 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Before they were even teammates on the Weber State University men's basketball team, center Danko Barisic and forward Nedim Pajevic had a bond. "When he came on his visit last spring, I really wanted him to come here," said Barisic, a WSU business administration sophomore from Croatia. "Because it's always easier, especially 'cause he lives with me in our apartment, it's just easy to be able to just speak to somebody in your own language, somebody who can relate to more, kind of, your mindset." Pajevic, a WSU business junior from neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina, said their languages are akin to British PHOTOS BY TRICtA GERftARD | THE SICNPOST English and American English. Danko Barisic Nedim Pajevic "It's way fun just to talk to somebody in your own native The fighting ended almost 10 After the war started, Barisic's language and talk about the same years ago, and Pajevic's family parents sent him to live with his interest and talk about 'back 1 lived near and had Serb and grandparents, far away from the home and stuff," Pajevic said. Croatian friends, but Pajevic said fighting. Barisic is a Roman Catholic there is still some uneasiness Pajevic was living in Bosnia's Croatian and Pajevic is a Bosnian between the three different capital, Sarajevo, where the fighting Muslim. In their home countries, ethnic groups in Bosnia: The war was most intense. there is friction between these is still on everybody's mind. During the 1984 Winter Olympics two ethnic groups. "It's stable, but there's still Barisic came to the United in Sarajevo, Haanstad said the tension," Pajevic said. city was held as an example of States four years ago on a high Friday, Adnkronos International school exchange program, then multiculruralism and peace. By 1992, stayed when he was recruited to the city was surrounded by Serbian reported the leader of a prominent forces until the end of 1995. Bosnian Croatian party was play college basketball. "It wasn't a typical war, soldiers pushing for a separate Croatian Pajevic, who lived in California for the past 11 years, moved to against soldiers," Pajevic said. "There region like that of Bosnian Serbs. Haanstad said the country is the United States during the were a lot of civilian casualties." Pajevic remembered a couple trying to form a representative four-year war in Bosnia. That war was the Bosnian of months of staying inside the political system. She said some phase of the breakup of apartment because it was too non-governmental agencies are Yugoslavia, said Nancy Haanstad, dangerous to go out. He has a large funding peace-building projects WSU Department of Political scar below his left calf caused by in the region to bring together the three different groups. Science associate professor. shrapnel from a mortar. "That's not something that He said he was lucky because the When Yugoslavia was divided you can do overnight," in 1991, most ^^^^^ ^~~" Haanstad said. "It'll regions like Slovenia take a generation, and and Croatia had even then, it still going a clear ethnic "It wasn't a typical war, soldiers be quite a reversal of majority. Bosnia against soldiers. There were a lot past history." was divided into Pajevic and Barisic about 47 percent of civilian casualties/' both travel to their Bosnian Muslims, homelands every 17 percent Croatian - Nedim Pajevic, summer. They enjoy Roman Catholics going back home and 33 percent WSU basketball forward/center to visit with friends Serbian Orthodox _ _ _ _ "^"^~ and family and eat Christians. No one the food. They're also group had the clear majority to shrapneldidn'thitanymajorarteries. dominate the government. Pajevic was injured early in the war, thinking of visiting each other "A lot of historians and before humanitarian aid started while in Eastern Europe. They both said they commentators were predicting flowing into the war-torn region, he from the very start of the breakup said. He had no anesthesia while the have aspirations of playing basketball for the professional of former Yugoslavia that Bosnia doctor removed the shrapnel. was going to be the place where it "So the whole operation was leagues in Europe. . "Ijuststartedveryyoungwhen would blow up," Haanstad said. done with me just like, looking I was 7 or 8, and just liked it and During the breakup of at him work on my leg," he said. stuck with it," Barisic said. "And it Yugoslavia, Haanstad said "And I'm, like, an 8-year-old kid, helped that I grew to 6'11"." the former Serbian president, screaming at the top of my lungs. After they retire from the Slobodan Milosevic, who presently So it definitely was a trip." game, they said they want to put stands trial at a U.N. war crimes Pajevic and his family moved their business studies to use. tribunal for genocide in Kosovo, to the United States in 1994, a year In the meantime, practices promoted the idea of a greater before the war ended. Pajevic was started for the men's basketball Serbian country. He intended this reunited with his father, who was sent Greater Serbia to contain part of to California a year earlier because he team Friday and Barisic and Pajevic are optimistic about the Croatia and Bosnia. was shot three times. In 1994, Croatians and Bosnians upcoming season. While the war's cause may be "I think we have a lot of disputed, of whether Serbians allied together against Serbians, potential and the chance to be attempted to safeguard Serbs in and in 1995, the Dayton Agreement really good," Barisic said. Bosnia in the event of a Bosnian was signed creating two political government, Haanstad said most entities in the country: One Serbian You can rea ch reporter Maria people outside the region blame region and one Bosnian-Croatian Villasenor by calling 626-7121. the Serbian attempt to drive out region. The International Criminal any minorities in predominantly Tribunal estimated that 102,000 people had died during the war. Serbian areas in Bosnia. Barisic's hometown of Osijek, Other numbers cite the death toll Croatia, was less than 40 miles near 278,000. from the Bosnian border and in "After that, the war, it definitely the war zone. changes how you think about life "I remember some details, and all that," Pajevic said. Pajevic said his family was nearing like going to the basement once or twice," Barisic said. "But I upper-middle class in Bosnia, but was really little; I can't say I they had to start at zero when they A weekly series exploring the came to California. remember much." native countries of Wildcats Look at what's coming up in The Signpost Wednesday News Features Sports •Some Wildcats are trying to save gas money in a new program that organizes rides for car pools. »How different religions celebrate Halloween. "Results from WSU men's soccer vs. Utah State University and women's soccer vs. Idaho State Univeristy. »Hot things to do for Halloween. |