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create comfort with them
It was “very good and taught
me to observe people more
and great to have everyone
participate,” said one of the
attendees.
“It was interesting, lots of
energy. Very helpful,” said
another. “Even though I don’t
like to act, but I thought it was
really very impressive.”
The leadership conference is
one example that demonstrate
sthe fact that there is a lot to
learn outside of the classroom.
It is “hearing again and learn
ing again how to communicate
non-verbally,” said Dr. Widoff,
director of Student Activities.
“Workshops are one of many
out-of-the-class activities that
are designed to compliment
what happened to the student
in the class,” she continued.
“So in this case, whether you
are a humanities student or an
engineering student or busi
ness student or any other aca
demic school, find tuning the
way you communicate your
ideas can be very helpful.” Dr.
Widoff also welcomes any
other workshop topic students
are interested in.
Altamese Kelley, secretary of
SGA did a wonderful presenta
tion for Mr. Gori. She said, “It
was a very nice learning expe
rience and Mr. Gori did a won
derful job. I was expecting
more students to attend, but
because of the weather it was
only a few individuals beside
SGA and our CA’s.” The evalu
ation for the conference was
approximately 65% Excellent,
33% Good, and 2% Fair.
Is that hair
in my ears?
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enriched? How about wonder
ing why I was too busy to help
raise money for the rain forest
and now it’s gone. Pal, if ifs and
buts were candy and nuts, we’d
all have a wonderful Christmas!
It saddens me when I hear
that many of the adult students
feel alienated on campus, that
they don’t fit in. It is true that
many of them are not as cool
as me, but there’s nothing I can
do about that. If they just took a
moment to make friends, they’d
realize there’s nothing to be
scared of. Except for maybe
that guy in my one Mass
It saddens me
when I hear that
many of the
adul students
feel alienated on
campus...
Comm, class, he scares me a
little. Anyway, join a club. I
joined Lion Ambassadors short
ly after coming back to school
and have had a blast. They let
me run around as the Nittany
Lion mascot at our functions
and feed me pizza! The girls
(98 percent girls, guys, 98 per
cent! Join today, stupid!) get a
kick out of it and I don’t think
they see me as some old dude,
or do they? No, it’s cool. I’d say
that all my friends now are ten
to twenty years younger than
me and I don’t think that’s
weird. Or is it? Anyway, I’m get
ting tired. It’s time for a nap.
Jordinian college student ordered
deported without hearing
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH - An immigration
judge has ordered the deporta
tion of a Jordanian attending La
Roche College for failing to reg
ister with a federal program that
tracks visitors from primarily
Muslim countries.
Abdelqader Abu-Snaineh, 22,
said he will catch a flight from
New York City and leave the
country on Tuesday, the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report
ed Sunday.
Abu-Snaineh was led off the
suburban Pittsburgh campus in
handcuffs in June 2003 because
he did not show up to register
with the National Security Entry
Exit Registration System, which
targets visitors from 25 coun
tries, mainly in the Middle East.
The program was set up follow
ing the Sept. 11 attacks.
“I was disappointed. I would
have explained everything,”
Abu-Snaineh said, saying he
didn’t register because he was
swamped with an 18-credit class
load at the time. “I would have
told him that I really was intend
ing to register. There was no
political reason why I wouldn't
register.”
But Abu-Snaineh didn’t get to
say that in person because
Judge Donald Ferlise issued the
deportation order without a
hearing on Friday, saying he had
already decided months ago
that the student purposely didn’t
register.
Elaine Komis, a spokeswoman
for the Justice Department’s
Executive Office of Immigration
Review, said testimony is usual
ly taken in such cases but does
n’t have to be.
Immigration officials said Abu-
Snaineh’s rights weren’t violated
because the judge did consider
written evidence submitted on
Mount St. Helens
lets off steam
By David Ammons
Associated Press Writer
MOUNT ST. HELENS NATION
AL MONUMENT, Wash. - Mount
St. Helens belched more steam
Monday following several days
of tremors and low-level earth
quakes that have raised fears
that the mountain might blow at
any moment.
It was not immediately clear
how large Monday’s emission
was, or whether it contained
ash, but U.S. Geological Survey
geologist Willie Scott said any
ash would fall mostly in the
crater and not threaten any
structures.
The steam burst blanketed the
top of the mountain in a white
cloud and followed a similar
blast and 20-minute tremor late
Sunday.
A drumbeat of earthquakes
since a plume of steam was
released on Friday indicated
that pressure was mounting
within the mountain. Geological
Survey crews also observed a
shift in the crater floor and on
part of the 1,000-foot lava dome
that essentially serves as a plug
for magma, he said.
“Cracks are opening up so we
know something is pushing up
close to the surface right now,”
Geological Survey geologist
Tom Pierson told NBC’s “Today”
show Monday.
Scientists have said they do
not expect anything close to the
devastation of Mount St. Helen’s
May 18, 1980, explosion, which
killed 57 people and coated
much of the Northwest with ash.
The mountain’s alert was
raised to Level 3, the highest
possible, after a volcanic tremor
was detected Saturday for the
first time since before the moun
tain’s 1980 eruption.
Crowds have gathered along
his behalf by the American Civil
Liberties Union.
“He did receive his day in court.
It was just on paper,” said
Manny Van Pelt, a spokesman
for Immigration and Customs
Enforcement. “That’s how these
things sometimes go.”
Robert Whitehill, an attorney
working with ACLU, said Ferlise
told Abu-Snaineh’s attorneys he
found the student acted willfully
and was therefore deportable.
“I’ve never heard of not letting
respondents testify, especially
as to the substance of the case,”
said Jeanne Butterfield, execu
tive director of the American
Immigration Lawyers
Association of Washington, D.C.
“The whole issue turns on
whether it was willful or excusa
ble. If he (the judge) is not willing
to hear testimony, how can he
make a fair decision?”
Abu-Snaineh was detained for
nine days after his arrest last
June. The case has prompted
debate over whether the law,
which required males older than
16 to be interviewed, fingerprint
ed and photographed, goes too
far in the name of national secu
rity.
Abu-Snaineh had letters from
the college’s administration,
vouching for his character and
his 3.2 grade-point average in
computer science.
“You take a kid like this and you
mistreat him in the way he’s
been mistreated and you give
fodder to our enemies to say,
‘Look, this isn’t such a great
country after all,”’ said Witold
“Vic” Walczak, litigation director
for the Pittsburgh ACLU office.
Abu-Snaineh said he still has a
high opinion of America, but had
this message for those who
pushed for his deportation: “You
did me wrong. And I didn’t
expect that.”
park roads at what was said to
be a safe distance to see what
happens next. Barbecues were
fired up and entrepreneurs sold
hot dogs and coffee to people
camped along the side of the
road.
Most air traffic was prohibited
within a 5-mile radius of the vol-
The 1980 blast obliterated the
top 1,300 feet of the volcano,
devastated miles of forest and
buried the North Fork of the
Toutle River in debris and ash as
much as 600 feet deep.
This time, the main concern was
a significant ash plume carrying
gritty pulverized rock and silica
that could damage aircraft
engines and the surfaces of cars
and homes.
Many spectators couldn’t wait
out the mountain. Sunday’s sun
set brought a mass exodus off
the mountain.
“Our attention span is about
like this,” said James Wilder, 25,
of Aberdeen, holding his forefin
ger and thumb about one-quar
ter of an inch apart. “We’ve been
here five hours and we need to
leave pretty soon.”
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Nation needs more companies to make
flu shots, flu experts say
By Malcolm Ritter
Associated Press Science Writer
NEW YORK - If the United
States wants to avoid future
shortages of flu vaccine it must
take steps to draw drug compa
nies back into the business of
making the inoculations, flu
experts say.
In a bad year, the stakes could
be higher than just saving peo
ple from fever, headaches and a
runny nose.
“What if you had 20 or 30 per
cent of your population not able
to go to work or to school? It
would affect the economy. It
would affect, in a sense, our
security,” said Dr. Gregory
Poland of the Mayo Clinic, who
sits on a federal vaccine adviso
ry board.
Health officials warned of short
ages last Tuesday after one of
the two companies that supply
most of the nation’s flu inocula
tions said it couldn’t provide any.
British authorities had suspend
ed the license of Chiron Corp.
because of problems at its vac
cine plant in Liverpool. That
chopped the nation’s supply of
flu vaccine in half.
When the news reached a
meeting of vaccine experts
Tuesday morning, "we were
shocked and surprised, and then
we got depressed, and then we
just moved into problem-solv
ing,” recalled Dr. William
Schaffner of Vanderbilt
University.
“It doesn’t help the firemen to
get angry at the fire, you’ve got
to go to work and put it out.”
The basic problem is that
“we’ve lost most of our domestic
manufacturers” of flu vaccine,
said Richard Webby at St. Jude
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Memphis. “When you’re relying
on two manufacturers ... and one
goes down, you’re up the creek.”
Drug companies have pulled
out of flu vaccine production
because it’s not very profitable
and it’s financially risky, health
experts said.
One big problem is that
“What if you had
20 or 30 percent
of your population
not able to go to
work or to school?
It would affect the
economy. It would
affect, in a sense,
our security.”
demand for flu shots fluctuates
from year to year as public inter
est waxes and wanes. Last sea
son brought huge demand for a
flu shot; the year before saw little
interest, Poland said. But flu
shots have to be made far in
advance, so the manufacturers
must rely on estimates and then
they’re “out there naked in the
marketplace,” said Schaffner.
If a flu shot isn’t used during the
season, it must be discarded. So
companies generally throw away
millions of doses a year, Poland
said.
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requires massive capital invest
ment and involves the costs of
complying with federal regula
tions, and the market is relative
ly small, he said.
So what can be done to draw
more companies into making flu
vaccines?
One strategy would be to make
demand higher and more reli
able by getting more healthy
adults to get flu shots regularly,
Webby said. Between the public
ity over last year’s early flu sea
son and the current concern that
bird flu could spawn a lethal
human pandemic, “flu certainly
has had a relatively high profile
the last couple years,” Webby
said. “All of this I think is certain
ly raising public awareness.”
Other experts suggest having
the government commit to buy
ing a certain number of doses at
a given price each year, buffer
ing the uncertainty. Currently,
most flu vaccine in the United
States is bought by the private
sector.
Not only could government buy
more flu vaccine and promote flu
shots more aggressively, it could
also require health insurance
companies to cover flu shots as
well as other vaccines for adults,
Schaffner said. A companion
public program could provide flu
shots for uninsured people, he
suggested.
“It would create a huge new
market.”
By next year, a guaranteed
government purchase might
ensure that the three flu vaccine
makers that now supply the
nation remain in the business,
Poland said. Besides the two
major suppliers, another compa
ny makes the new inhaled vac
cine, Flu Mist.
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