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Show your new/ A6 MONDAY-FEBRUARY26 • 2007 Rapper, activist visits Salt Lake Help for cutters on t that they needed to be more Jeff Hilton ' concerned with changing News Writer inequality in the world. Mutulu Olugabala, "People would have you known as M-l of the po- believe that because you litical hip-hop duo Dead are here in college, you will Prez, visited Salt Lake City become the next group to Thursday Feb. 22, with a maintain the upper-middle message of encouragement class status quo," M-l said. for young people and the "I'm here to tell you there hope that they can change are more important things the world in a revolution- than leaving here to make your fortunes in your caary way. reers." Speaking at the UniverM-l asked college stusity of Utah's Union Balldents Thursday if they had room to a crowd of several studied Karl Marx in high- for materialism, M-l said, hundred, M-1 said, "I would er education. When many "The very same people that like for you to not consider raised their hands in the own rap, that have co-opted me a rapper [..,] I'd like for affirmative, M-l borrowed you to consider me a freerap, own the prison system dom fighter. It's important from The Communist Man- and the educational system that you see yourselves as ifesto and exhorted the au- [...] We need to be creators, dience to remember that not consumers." that too." M-l had spoken earlier they had "nothing to loose Another member of the that day with high school but their chains." audience asked M-l what "We have to get capi- he would specifically like students about issues of race in America, encour- talism off our backs," M-l to see changed in America aging them to not become said. "It's this very same and throughout the world. capitalism that made rap M-l said, "A revolution in apathetic. Dead Prez followed a $40 billion industry and this country would need Thursday's events with a that literally built this coun- to be a direct overturning performance at Salt Lake try via slavery." of capitalism [...] We have When one member of to create a system that creCity's Urban Lounge, Frithe audience said that many ates fairness and prevents day Feb. 23. M-1 told the audience of of the youth in America the. greedy people of the primarily college students listening to hip-hop had world." become the poster children DEGREES SPECIAL ! 00 Introductory Flight Aviation DvgnMS offered at UVSC •$4© BENEFITS: --- Competitive Flight Coata *-' Accelerated Option Available '•' Fedora! & Alternative Funding •-- Stato-of-tho-Art AlrcrofT •.' 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Jensen seek help most often have against browns. They want says it is a way to. iflease a good support system. to repel those that the land emotional pain temporarThe National Menwas taken from long ago. ily. '•%:• ' tal Health Association You all know this, the Self-harm may;,••:.- be (NMHA) released statistics Northern half of Mexico caused through burning, which state that more than was taken by the U.S. govscratching, biting, pinch- two million Americans inernment." ing, hitting, head-banging jure themselves each year. M-l addressed the his- and/or hair pulling,. Ac- The typical candidate is tory of the American civil cording to Jensen, abuse as teenage, female and from rights movement, explain- a chjld, depression, eating an upper to middle class ing that more revolutionary disorders and personal- background who has low groups like the Black Pan- ity disorders are some of self-esteem. About 50 ther Party grew out of that many contributors to self- percent of those who selfmovement when it seemed injury. harm reported they had ex.' the civil rights movement perienced sexual or physiJensen said that counwasn't doing enough. seling can help these in- cal abuse. Karen Conterio M-l said that during dividuals who self-harm and Dr. Wendy Lader, who the 1960s the Black Panpinpoint the core reasons wrote the book BODILY ther Party started commufor doing so. A UVSC HARM, said a survey renity programs such as free student seeking help from vealed that 12 percent of health clinics and the feedself-harm behaviors can 245 college students had ing of 5,000 school children visit the Student Health physically harmed themfree breakfast each mornCenter. Jensen himself selves. ing in California. 'They Jensen said most cuthas helped people overrealized children cannot go come the desire to injure ters and self-injurers aren't to school and learn on an trying to kill themselves. themselves. empty stomach. That's an Jensen believes men- Cutters generally scratch exercise in futility," M-l tal and physical pain to be themselves rather than said. equally serious and urges deep cutting. Even without According to M-l, FBI those suffering to get the intent for serious injury, documents from the buhelp they need. He sug- Jensen said cutting can reau's Cointelprofilesidengested the National Al- cause infections, scarring tified the the Black Panther liance for the Mentally or even cutting of a tenParty in the latter 60s as 111 (NAMI) as just one of don. the number one threat to "Cutting and self-injury many resources for treatthe internal security of the are not disorders," said ment. US government. "In 18 Jensen, "they are an action If you know an individmonths, the Black Panther chosen by some people Party of Chicago, the larg- ual with this problem, lis- with certain disorders." est chapter in America, was ten to them, but do not over "[Of] 50 anorexics," built from nothing and mil- react. As one indication, an said Jensen, "I believe itarily defeated by the U.S. individual who self-harms about five of them cut government," M-l said on might wear long-sleeved themselves. I think cutting shirts during summer. OthThursday. is a rare coping mechaer signs of self-harm may nism. It does exist, but it's be wounds that do not apnot that common." pear to heal, bald spots and For more information frequent injuries at various on self-injury, contact the stages of healing. UVSC Student Health SerCutters will injure their vices. move got easier! Alliance Protection Systems, Ine, One of the top 30 ADT authorized dealers nationwide. 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