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Bill of Rights concert benefits refugees
By Kiernan Majerus-Collins in NEW HAVEN, Connecticut,
U.S.A.—
A recent benefit concert for Integrated Refugee and
Immigrant Services, a charity that helps refugees settle
in the United States, brought together people from
around the world to celebrate America’s freedom.
Wesleyan music professor Neely Bruce
conducted his composition honoring the Bill of Rights in
the hypermodern auditorium at Cooperative Arts and
Humanities High School to help raise money for IRIS, an
organization that has assisted refugees to settle in the
greater New Haven area since 1982.
“The word needs to get out. We need to
celebrate this program,” said Chris George, the
executive director of IRIS.
George said that Bruce’s The Bill
of Rights: Ten Amendments in Eight Motets was a
perfect fit for IRIS, as the group often deals with
“refugees deprived of their rights.”
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- OPINION-
South African students protest tuition hikes
By Mariechen Puchert in
CAPE TOWN, Western Cape, South Africa
– Stunned by the news that Stellenbosch University planned significant hikes in
tuition and residential fees, students held a peaceful protest Monday to support
affordable education.
The protest at the Tygerberg Campus,
said organizers from student government, was to show that students were in
mourning for the “loss of intellectual development” through higher education for
students who couldn’t manage the fees.
The action came after students learned
that, starting in January, their tuition would jump by 11 percent and their
residential fees by a whopping 14 percent.
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- MY HOMETOWN-
Beyond stereotypes in L.A.
By Elaine Truong in
LOS ANGELES, Calif., U.S.A. – Despite stereotypes of Los Angeles
most often seen on MTV's “The Hills,” the city has as
much heart and life as it spans in square miles.
That’s 498.3 square miles, if you must know.
I used to detest where I came from, but exploring Los
Angeles has given me a new appreciation for the city and
its people, although not enough to stop me from wanting
to move to other countries and states to explore.
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Teens bombarded by bad images
By Cresonia Hsieh in KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, U.S.A.
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Teens are constantly fighting a battle
today to do and be the right thing.
But from music lyrics to explicit
movie scenes, magazine headlines to dirty television
advertisements, media constantly fills the young adults of 2010
with the wrong message.
As MTV would advise, just “live above
the influence” but it is all too easy for teens to come across
an advertisement luring its prey into the temptations of sex,
drugs, and alcohol.
With just the flip of a switch, images
of seductive Victoria Secret models flaunting nearly naked
shimmering bodies in front of flashing cameras pop up, before
it’s possible to change the channel.
Surfing through popular radio
stations, the lyrics of America’s Top Ten artists serenade with
promises of happiness, respect, and success.
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