Posted on 07/30/2003 3:55:24 PM PDT by Binyamin
Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - Page updated at 02:10 P.M.
Evergreen student wounded in West Bank protest
By The Associated Press
OLYMPIA A student from The Evergreen State College was wounded in the West Bank during a protest against Israel's construction of a security fence there. Sam Tsohonis, 26, an art major at the Olympia college, was hit in the leg by a rubber-coated bullet near the village of Anin on Monday. Israeli soldiers wounded five people when they fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters trying to cut or push through the fence.
Israelis say the barrier is needed to stop militants from entering Israel to carry out attacks. But Palestinians say the project amounts to a land-grab that cuts them off from agricultural fields, towns and jobs.
Tsohonis has spent about two weeks in the West Bank as part of a two-month volunteer stint for the Palestinian-backed International Solidarity Movement.
Rachel Corrie, 23, also an Evergreen student and an International Solidarity Movement volunteer, was crushed to death in March by an Israeli bulldozer while she tried to block it from advancing on a Palestinian home.
Marci Tsohonis of Wenatchee, Sam's mother, said her son was a friend of Corrie. She said she spoke to her son by cell phone and he told her that the rubber bullet grazed his leg and tore off some flesh. He expects to be off his feet for a few days, she said.
She said Tsohonis remains committed to staying in the West Bank. He hopes to paint a mural in a Palestinian hospital nursery that was named for Corrie.
"He wanted to do it to promote peace," Marci Tsohonis said
Now, to be fair, you need to note that those top ten ratings were from other academics around the nation -- a case of the far left giving high marks to the way, way, way far left.
The location is spectacular (which still galls some of us in the area...they've got some of the best damn real estate to be found anywhere). Sitting on Cooper Point with literally millions upon millions of dollars worth of Puget Sound shoreline property (some of which is used for the nude beach...which wouldn't be so bad except that all the women are lesbos, and look the part -- and it's mostly the men who strut around naked).
For the other readers: You don't receive any grades, you write up a "self-evaluation" on how you "feel" about your "experience."
Not when I was there 1984-87, it was top ten small colleges in the nation. I was in the Computer Science program.
For the other readers: You don't receive any grades, you write up a "self-evaluation" on how you "feel" about your "experience."
The important evaluation is given by the professor at the end of the term. There are tests, projects, lab work, along with textbooks to be studied and papers to be written. Evergreen has a very high rate of acceptance at graduate schools around the nation.
For the other readers: You also write up a "Faculty Evaluation" and submit it *before* you receive your evaluation.
Hmmm, I don't remember that. I do know that in my senior year Computer Science program we started with around 55 students that had passed a difficult screening test, at years end less than 12 of us made it through.
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International Solidarity Movement activists sprays graffiti on the controversial security fence during a demonstration in the West Bank town of Qalqiliya.(AFP/Pedro Ugarte) AFP - Jul 31 10:43 AM |
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Foreign peace activists shout during a protest in front of a fence near the West Bank city of Qalqilya, July 31, 2003. Some 200 Palestinian and foreigners staged a demonstration against a controversial security barrier being built by Israel across the West Bank, demanding that it be torn down. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic Reuters - Jul 31 7:50 AM |
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Peace activists protested in the West Bank city of Tulkarem during a demonstration to show their opposition to the construction of a fence separating Israel from the Palestinian territories.(AFP/File/Saif Dahlah) AFP/File - Jul 26 7:07 AM |
Every once in a while, I'm ashamed to be associated with freepers; well, some freepers. This is one of those times. Life is precious; college students are notoriously stupid. This is just wicked.
There's a huge difference between college pranks and international terrorism.
Terrorists should be killed, period.
I'm suspicious because in Evergreen-speak it's always referred to as "fourth year", as in "I'm a fourth-year student" thus avoiding 'dominance-based emotional trauma' and classism for those who've only been there 1, 2, or 3 years. Actually I'm sure you went there. Just having some fun.
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