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...second role of the women’s center will be institutionalizing support for women. Women on campus today constitute half of the student body, yet generations of exclusion, separation, and marked inferiority do not disappear immediately. The new women’s center, run by and for women and their supporters, will be a symbolic “room of our own,” a place where women who otherwise feel like the “outsiders” will feel at home. On the practical side, the center will provide a “safe space?...
...perfectly upright. It wasn’t easy, she says later, because the flag was very heavy, especially for a woman. She was nervous about the technicalities at first: the flag is not supposed to touch the ground or brush the ceiling. But as she marches those worries disappear, and she contemplates the symbolism of what she is doing. She is carrying the flag to represent not only her own battalion, but the entire army. We’re fighting under this flag, she thinks, and I am holding it, holding it for everyone else to see. Even...
...Federica Val Adrichem. Clemson’s duo was able to cut the lead to 4-3 before O’Riain and Anderson finished them off with four straight game victories. At the third position, junior Preethi Mukundan and freshman Laura Peterzan almost saw an early lead disappear but recovered to secure the doubles point with the 8-3 win. “We went up 4-1, had a little lapse to 4-3, but then pulled forward to 8-3,” Mukundan said. Wang and sophomore Stephanie Schnitter at No. 2 doubles struggled against...
...Iraq today, when your relatives disappear, you head first not to the police but to the hospitals and morgues. After a day's searching, Mohammed found the bodies of his cousins in the city's main morgue. "They had been brutally tortured, cut and burned," he says. "Even their genitals had been mangled." The bodies were buried the next day in the family hometown of Fallujah. Despite a daytime curfew, Mohammed says, many neighboring Shi'ites attended the funeral. "Some of them were very helpful. They helped us make all the arrangements," he says, his voice breaking. Even...
...washing away of coastal Louisiana. The state's land loss now totals 1,900 sq. mi. That land once protected the entire region from hurricanes by acting as a sponge to soak up storm surges. If nothing is done, in the foreseeable future an additional 700 sq. mi. will disappear, putting at risk port facilities and all the energy-producing infrastructure in the Gulf...