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Show Give a Helping Hand, Not Handouts: DaiIiUtah TiTTTnniTTnT m i l II II i II w fi 1 Brockway argues that the United States needs to educate hungry countries, not feed them. Pop Feminism: Young Guns: PS I - It THURSDAY, MARCH Vote on First Day, Polls Close a ERIKA JOHNSON Chronicle News Writer Campaign signs cover the lawns and windows of campus as students compete for positions on the final ballots of student elections. Online voting for the primary elections of the Associated Students of the University of Utah began yesterday at 7 a.m. and will continue until 9 p.m. today. Students can vote online by going to the ASUU Web site www.asuu.utah.edu. If students have difficulty voting online, they can pick up a paper ballot from the ASUU office in the Union. As of 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, 1,010 students had voted, which is 225 fewer than had voted at the same time last year. There arc four parties running for ASUU president and vice president this year: Apathy, Elevation, Impact and Probable Cause. Party platforms arc printed on Page 4. The Apathy Party, led by Steven Paradise and Rodney Earl, has failed to attend the last three candidate debates. From the onset they ran their campaign geared more toward getting students to vote rather than voting for 7 A : . ft V Steve Preece helps campaign for the Impact Party, whose booth included free bagels and foosball. Afghanistan Prof Discusses History n Of Nation War-Tor- MIKEL GAJKOWSKI see ELECTIONS, page 5 iab2ies 'Resource Center Opens " Center Is 1st of Its Kind in the V.'es 7tT - Chronicle News Writer 1- Before a diverse crowd of students and faculty, speaker Hassan Kakar presented a solution to Afghanistan's plight, one that placed Afghans as key determinants in the nation's political scheme, not outsiders. Kakar is a history professor at a university in Kabul. He detailed Afghanistan's history as a determinant for the country's current situation. Kakar said U.S. students can't affect the Afghan situation, but should be informed about it. Among the greatest factors limiting the power of Afghans, Kakar said, is intervention from neighboring countries and failure of the ethnically diverse nation to establish a national government. "People have said Afghanistan consists merely of its ethnic groups," said Kakar. "But in practical life, the national boundaries have proven stronger than ethnic boundaries." Kakar cited a historical summary of Afghanistan's politics, strongly influenced by neighboring countries such as India and the Soviet Union, which invaded Afghanistan in 1979. In modern Afghanistan, Kakar said, the country has hosted a number of political struggles and unstable regimes. Kakar indicated a common trend in Afghanistan's history the realization that "power can be obtained by military coupe." 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't t! c '4'i" 1 O: ; Baseball team utilizes 28, 2002 VOL 111 NO 126 Solving Women's Issues Requires Creative Thinking JAKE PARKINSON Chronicle Asst. News Editor When Halle Berry won the Oscar for best actress in a leading role Sunday, it was a victory for women everywhere, Julianne Malvcaux said. Berry broke down borders as the n woman to win first best actress, "but like Halle Berry said, that award is for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance because that door has been opened," Malvcaux said, paraphrasing Berry's acceptance speech. As keynote- speaker for the U's Women's Week, Malvcaux stated that although Berry's award proves that discrimination in many aspects is changing, there arc still problems. For instance, there arc not many women working within the film industry itself, she said. More than 100 people gathered in the Marriott Library's Gould Auditorium to hear Malvcaux, a syndicated columnist, writer and economist, speak about women's issues. "To the media, women are simply parts," she said. Women arc "disconstructcd" to body parts and then told by media that they need a product to remove wrinkles or need a pencil to make their lips more full. "What they're saying is, once you get your lips right, you arc going to get equal pay," she said. As a contributor to many magazines, Malvcaux doesn't want to do away with all of the publications, but she warned women to be careful about the way they "consume the African-America- - equality from this perspective, one has to step out of the box. Many women's rights groups constantly focus on equality of pay for women. This corporate middle-clas- s effort could be better spent in focusing on the gap at the bottom, she ;' ;. -- 1 t5 a re ?, c - 1 if - c'7icc, doath a . ; r." c ii J f:."i ' IV s ejk M media." She listed music videos as one example of the strange way female roles arc portrayed in the media. The videos show beautiful, fit, buff women next to fat, "slobby" men who wear pants that don't fit and "look in like they haven't done a sit-u- p said. she years," A major problem in the fight for equal rights is perspective, she said. "Women don't want half of the pic. Equality is really about changing the recipe for pic," she said. To view tv? riVK.-;cutiin:- Magazine paints a young players to sweep the Southern Colorado Thunderwolves. II .ffl- The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 ... RED picture of feminism through Ampriran hmh art and nnn r - r ni hire. .. V Cris re-r Ay-'-'-- ' said. Most women work in clerical and service industry fields, and have for the past 100 years, she said. Many of these women arc paid minimum wage and arc left without benefits, including health care to provide for themselves or their children. People everywhere must look outside the box to come up with solu- -' tions to these problems, she said. Malvcaux told the story of Sadie Alexander, a woman who looked outside the box to solve her own s, J: AFGHANISTAN, page 3 the daily utah chronicle is copy! on !f3 (left b uj t). the world wide see WOMEN, page 5 web at www.DailyUtahChronicle.com . |