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...were elected to the Committee on House Life (CHL), while Jennifer S. Axsom ’04, Aalap A. Mahadevia ’02, and Zachary L. Bercu ’04 will serve as new representatives to the Committee on College Life (CCL). Omolola Kassim ’04, James M. Carter ’02, and Briana M. Ewert ’03 were elected to the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) and Stephanie L. Murg ’02, and Andre M. Moura ’03 are new members of the Standing Committee on the Core...
...advises various departments and the dean for undergraduate education. Kassim, who is new to the CUE board, said that she was not interested in running for the council, but wanted to be involved in campus life...
...main issue on the CUE’s agenda is concentration advising, which Kassim said is “not a losing battle...
Another motif which runs throughout both books is the shocking and unnecessary heavy-handedness with which Israelis have dealt with the Arabs. The fates of two villages, as reported in both books, Deir Yasin and Kfar Kassim, demonstrate the extremes to which this policy could be carried. Deir Yasin has become the well-known rallying cry of the Palestinian resistance; on April 9, 1948, the terrorist bands Lehi and Irgun Zvai Leumi--the latter under Menahim Begin's leadership--massacred some 250 Arabs. But Deir Yasin is merely the most remembered of several massacres that summer which were intended...
...given extraordinarily light sentences, which were subsequently shortened still more. After continued public recrimination, the commander responsible for the original orders was put on trial--and fined one piastre for a "technical error." Yet, the press was largely silent about Israel's "My Lai." Neither Deir Yassin nor Kfar Kassim was an isolated incident; Juryis documents numerous similar, if less dramatic incidents...