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Dijaspora Bošnjačka: Broj 44
No full textBosniak DiasporaIV44Dijaspora bošnjačka (Bosnian Diaspora) is a Bosniak periodical that was published monthly between May 2004 and December 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was one of the two components comprising the Bosnian Media Group (the other was Radio Behar St. Louis). The publication features original articles by an international group of contributors (including from Bosnia and Herzegovina) and was distributed in the United States and Canada and parts of Europe. The paper was launched to share information and perspectives about the aggression toward Bosnia and Herzegovina and its people between 1992 and 1995, as well as to promote the values, traditions, and culture of Bosnian Muslims.Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue
Dijaspora Bošnjačka: Broj 13
No full textBosniak DiasporaII13Dijaspora bošnjačka (Bosnian Diaspora) is a Bosniak periodical that was published monthly between May 2004 and December 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was one of the two components comprising the Bosnian Media Group (the other was Radio Behar St. Louis). The publication features original articles by an international group of contributors (including from Bosnia and Herzegovina) and was distributed in the United States and Canada and parts of Europe. The paper was launched to share information and perspectives about the aggression toward Bosnia and Herzegovina and its people between 1992 and 1995, as well as to promote the values, traditions, and culture of Bosnian Muslims.Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue
Plima Magazin 4.1
No full textJanuar/Februar 2000IV1Plima Obiteljski Magazin is a bi-monthly Bosnian-language publication that was published in St. Louis, Missouri between 1997 and 2000. It was created by journalist, editor, and publisher Dijana Groth in response to increasing numbers of refugees resettling in St. Louis from her home country of (former) Yugoslavia. With an entertaining and informative format, Groth used PLIMA – translated to Ocean (New) Tide and geared at the whole family – to address the needs and concerns of the newly arrived refugees.Missing: Godina I, Broj 1; none published in August 1999. Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue
Plima Magazin 2.6
No full textNovembar/Decembar 1998II6Plima Obiteljski Magazin is a bi-monthly Bosnian-language publication that was published in St. Louis, Missouri between 1997 and 2000. It was created by journalist, editor, and publisher Dijana Groth in response to increasing numbers of refugees resettling in St. Louis from her home country of (former) Yugoslavia. With an entertaining and informative format, Groth used PLIMA – translated to Ocean (New) Tide and geared at the whole family – to address the needs and concerns of the newly arrived refugees.Missing: Godina I, Broj 1; none published in August 1999. Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue
Sunrise
No full textScannedII036SabaH is a Bosnian-language weekly newspaper that was published in the United States between December 1997 and October 2014. It was founded in Astoria, NY. In 2006, publishing was relocated to St. Louis, MO, but the newspaper continued its national distribution. A typical issue contains about 50 pages and features bold headlines and many photos, with articles from both Bosnia- and US-based contributors. SabaH was established to help Bosnian immigrants deal with life in their new home and keep them informed of events in their war-torn country. Its name translates to 'sunrise', symbolizing the arrival of a new generation of Bosnian immigrants in the US.Click on the blue Maximize button in the top right corner of each image to browse the pages of an issue. This project was made possible by a generous donation from Susan Powers of St. Louis, MO. Digitization is ongoing
University News - Volume 098, Issue 010 (February 14, 2019)
No full text24 pages.VOL. XCVIII No. 10 / February 14, 2019
Cover Design by Rebecca LiVigni
UTHE UNIVERSITY NEWS
SILENCE
is
OPPRESSION
DIALOGUE
Builds
BRIDGES
ilence is oppression. By not speak-ing
out against misogyny, white su-premacy
or racial segregation—to
name a few—one perpetuates the
stigma. Translated as “apartness,”
the Afrikaan word apartheid bears
a heavy weight on South African
culture. Also associated with its political and eco-nomic
segregation is former South African Presi-dent
F.W. de Klerk.
On Wednesday, the Great Issues Com-mittee
invited de Klerk to speak at Saint Louis
University. His talk was held at 7 p.m. in the Wool
Ballrooms, but unlike other events held in the
space, it was relatively empty. Nearly three-quar-ters
of the students who chose to attend wore red
in solidarity of the blood shed by apartheid vic-tims.
SLU black student groups did not associate
de Klerk with his hand in ending apartheid with
Nelson Mandela. Rather, they spoke out against
his lack of voice in stopping its regime for nearly
20 years, which he played a role in perpetuating,
as an elected official of the National Party.
“He tried to end his own regime that he
started,” Black Student Alliance member Jamila
Jackson said. “[De Klerk] was the problem because
he arranged for people to be killed. His officers
who worked under him killed black people, and he
stopped it, which, I guess, was good, but he start-ed
it in a sense. He took Nelson Mandela out of
jail, but he put him there.”
Jackson was one of several students who
questioned de Klerk during the Q&A session of his
talk, and who wished he would have addressed his
time in power to a greater extent. De Klerk spoke
about the benefits of glo-balization
with spurts of
historical facts on com-munist
Russia, climate
change and the U.S. as a
superpower. There was
no mention of his time in
office as he explained that
he “has been speaking in
more than 35 of the 50
states of the United States
since [his] retirement.” De
Klerk addressed how the
world is currently in a cri-sis,
which, he saw, warranted more room for dia-logue.
Grappling with de Klerk’s paradoxical na-ture
as both a president under the apartheid and
abolisher of the regime, students—both of color
and Caucasian—have tried to reconcile his inten-tions.
Should he be recognized for embracing the
white superiority complex as an individual who
benefited from apartheid, or as someone who was
a product of his society and tried to transition
away from his father’s ideals as a former minister?
“I grew up in an era when apartheid was a
policy in South Africa,” de Klerk said. “Later in my
life as a minister before I became president, I re-pealed
many laws which my father has put on the
statute book. It was a hope transition for me. One
must look at history in eras: You had in America
the era of racial discrimination, which was accept-able
and practiced widely, especially in the South.
Likewise, we had the same situation in South Afri-ca.”
As minister in the National Party, de Klerk
realized apartheid was corrupt and that the injus-tices
brought by it were morally unacceptable. He
is referred to as the “last apartheid president,” but
de Klerk argued that he should have a different
narrative: one which highlights the 100 apartheid
laws that he repealed and, regrettably, the “too
slow of a process of reform.”
Maybe he would have been better received
by the SLU community if his speech did not fall
on Black History Month. Black students and fac-ulty
previously expressed concern with de Klerk’s
attendance, but they perceived his presence as a
slap in the face, especially during a month that
was supposed to honor their heritage, said BSA
member Nina Oforji.
GIC has previously collaborated with
BSA on which guest speakers they feel align well
with Black History Month. In 2017, poet and Civ-il
Rights Activist Nikki Giovanni spoke about her
relationship with Rosa Parks and her role in advo-cating
for the black community.
De Klerk did address his long relation-ship
with Nelson Mandela
and how they both worked
to overcome tensions to
reach the goal of ending
racial separation.
“To help us find a reso-lution
to this problem, we
would talk together, we
would work together, we
would rise above those
tensions,” de Klerk said.
“We worked together for
the sake of South Africa.
It is a relationship that de-veloped
through tensions and through conflicts.
Nelson Mandela was prepared to talk to me after
27 years in jail. He showed a remarkable lack of
bitterness. If he could talk to me, surely students
could listen to me.”
DE KLERK APPEARANCE SPARKS CONTROVERSY
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By MEREDYTH STAUNCH
Editor-in-Chief
(Emma Carmody/The University News)
“Nelson Mandela was
prepared to talk to me
after 27 years in jail. He
showed a remarkable
lack of bitterness.”
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SLU STUDENTS PREPARE
FOR LIFE AFTER COLLEGE
By TANNOCK BLAIR
Associate News Editor
tudents were
invited to Chai-fetz
School of
Business on
Wednesday, Feb.
1 to attend Make
Me An Adult.
The event was
intended to prepare students for
life after college and was orga-nized
by Delta Sigma Pi in associ-ation
with US Bank.
Beginning at 5:30 p.m.
in Anheuser Busch Auditorium,
students were introduced to all of
the speakers and then welcomed
to visit whomever they wanted to
hear speak in designated rooms
throughout the building.
The speakers were a num-ber
of local professionals provid-ed
by US Bank, who all spoke on
various topics including Retire-ment
Saving Account Strategies,
Basic Budgeting & Saving, How
to Pay Less in Taxes (Legally) and
Paying Off Student Loans.
According to the Wall
Street Journal, “Nearly 65 percent
of students do not prepare for
their future after college and they
find a lifetime of digging out debt
and staying away from future fi-nancial
success.”
The two student co-plan-ners
of the event were Marissa
Oxendine and Charles Elliott.
Oxendine is a first-year Interna-tional
Business and Marketing
student who joined Delta Sigma
Pi at the recommendation of her
older sister. Elliott is a senior
Economics major who joined the
professional fraternity for its net-working
potential.
“The premise of the
event is learning the financial and
adulting skills that the classroom
doesn’t teach you,” said Oxen-dine.
She went on to stress that
the event is not just for Business
School students. “We realize that
most majors will not get a chance
to learn these valuable life skills
in a classroom setting. We want to
bring the classroom to them.”
According to Elliott, there
are often many small and techni-cal
details that graduates easily
miss. “For example, it hurts your
credit if you consistently spend a
large fraction of the credit avail-able
on your credit card,” he said.
“That’s something you wouldn’t
know if you didn’t speak to an ex-pert.”
Both co-planners wel-come
students or interested par-ties
to email [email protected]
for further inquiries into Make Me
An Adult or Delta Sigma Pi.
S
t the end of
December, the
longest gov-ernment
shut-down
in Amer-ican
history
began due to
disagreements
between Con-gress
and the White House over
border security. The shutdown
lasted over a month and during
that time federal workers were
unable to receive their salaries.
Federal workers were either un-able
to work at all or were forced
to work without pay, as was the
case for many TSA agents. This
affected families all over the
country, including those here in
St. Louis.
Without salaries coming
in, many students at SLU were
affected financially. Some stu-dents
found themselves unable to
pay their tuition or pay off loans.
When the financial services office
heard from a few students about
the situation, they knew they had
to help by implementing its “di-saster
emergency plan.”
Financial services offered
a few types of assistance to af-fected
students. They extended
deadlines and worked with stu-dents
to find a payment schedule
that would work for them. The of-fice
offered loans to students for
essential living items and made
it possible for students to charge
their textbook/school supplies
fees at the bookstore. Campus
Ministry and Billiken Bounty also
stepped in to help as well, offering
counseling, other monetary assis-tance
and offering clothing and
food to students in need. The of-fice
also worked with students to
make sure they were not affected
by a delay in IRS documents that
are required to process student
loans.
This is not the only time
that financial services have as-sisted
students in their financial
needs. The office has a reputation
for helping students facing fam-ily
financial issues and veteran
students that rely on government
funds to help pay their tuition.
Cari Wickliffe, assistant
VP and director of financial ser-vices,
said that they did not ex-pect
the problems to be fixed im-mediately
by the government’s
opening, and that financial ser-vices
would continue to help stu-dents
whose families were facing
financial hardship after the shut-down.
Financial services may
find themselves continuing this
policy further into the semester,
as another government shut-down
could be on the horizon. If
President Trump does not sign
a compromise bill by Friday, the
government could be shut down
again. The new bill, which is sup-ported
by both Democrats and
Republicans in Congress, offers
President Trump money for some
“border fencing and immigration
detention” but it does not quite
offer as much money as he orig-inally
wanted. The disagreement
over border security measures
and money for a wall at the south-ern
border is what kept President
Trump from signing the original
bill back in December and caused
the government to shut down.
If the bill isn’t signed
by Friday the same families who
were affected by the shutdown
last month could be financially
impacted again, for the second
time this year. In the midst of un-certainty
it is hard for students to
focus on their schoolwork and re-sponsibilities.
Wickliffe said that
SLU financial services recognizes
this and that it is “part of their
mission” to help students be able
to focus on their education, and
that they would be there to help
students with their financial bur-dens.
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By SAVANAH SEYER
Staff Writer
Photo Courtesy of Emma Carmody
SLU STEPS UP AS
GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN
t the end of January, SLU bi-ologist
Jason Knouft, Ph.D.
was chosen to serve on the
National Advisory Council
for Environmental Policy
and Technology, or NACPET.
The NACPET was founded in 1988 to
provide independent advice to the Environ-mental
Protection Agency. The council deals
with a broad range of environmental poli-cies,
with a primary focus on environmental
technology and management.
Knouft will serve with other mem-bers
of academia, but as the EPA looks to
the NACPET for “broad points of view from
a diverse range of interest groups,” he will
also work alongside representatives from
the business and industrial sector, various
non-governmental organizations and state
and local government officials.
Regarding Knouft’s duties, he and
his colleagues will be approached by the EPA
during important junctions and be asked to
give opinions on a variety of pressing en-vironmental
issues. Each advisor brings a
unique background with specific strengths
and specialties, which will inform the opin-ion
of the council.
For Knouft, years of research expe-rience
studying fresh-water systems, among
other areas of biology, will allow him to pro-vide
crucial insight on some of the most crit-ical
issues of the day.
He credits his time at SLU for pre-paring
him to serve in his role on the council.
“We deal with the impact of climate change
on water resources, how agricultural practic-es
impact water quality, urbanization, how
road salt influences fresh water systems, how
much people are willing to pay in taxes to in-crease
water quality,” he said. “The work I’ve
done has a good linkage between social sys-tems,
environmental systems and biological
systems, trying to link those three together.”
Knouft’s appointment comes at an
incredibly volatile time in current debates
over environmental policy. For better or
worse, the Trump administration has taken
a decidedly hostile—and at times overtly an-tagonistic—
posture towards the EPA and its
related entities.
President Trump’s choice for admin-istrator
of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, had spent his
career as a self-described “advocate against
the EPA’s activist agenda” which alongside
his inexperience in the field and troubling
financial ties to the fossil fuel industry made
his nomination a controversial one. Pruitt
resigned in July 2018 after intense scrutiny
and an ongoing ethics scandal, exacerbating
an already chaotic situation.
Nevertheless, Knouft and his col-leagues
will be asked to step up and deal
with the chaos. Beyond the controversial
appointments and budget cuts, the Trump
administration has broached a number of
environmental policy changes, both realized
and anticipated. Many of the policy changes
proposed seek to discard Obama-era policies
aimed at limiting pollution and reversing cli-mate
change. It is the job of NACPET to pro-vide
quick and balanced responses to these
continually evolving policy changes.
Knouft, however, stressed the impor-tance
of resisting the temptation to reduce
our current dialogue down to partisan poli-tics.
“What is particularly important, rather
than focusing on political polarization, is to
have scientifically based reasoning coming
into management of our resources,” he said.
“Having a scientific perspective is what is
critical to reasonable use and management
of our environmental systems.” He accentu-ated
the unbiased properties of science, stat-
SLU BIOLOGIST SELECTED FOR EPA COUNCIL POSITION
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By CONOR DORN
Staff Writer
Photo by Ellen Hutti for University Communications
SAVANAH’S
SGA UPDATE
FEB. 06, 2019
Legislation passed:
KSLU was provided Spot Funding for travel to
the upcoming South by Southwest conference.
Her Campus was charted as a Chartered Student
Organization.
HALO was provided with Wellness funding.
FEB. 13, 2019
Chet Gillis, Ph.D. SLU’s Interim Provost gave a
presentation on his role at the University and
took questions from the senators.
ing that “the goal of science is not to take a
side, but to present unbiased information, in
this case about human interaction with the
planet.”
The importance of NACPET’s role
in American environmental policy cannot
be understated. For Knouft the dialogue be-tween
policy makers, climate and environ-ment
experts and the public is “absolutely
critical” to creating sensible environmental
legislation. The experts in the EPA, NACPET
and other advisory bodies must process the
complexity of the science behind climate
change and other pressing environmental
challenges in order to work alongside gov-ernment
officials to produce public policy
which is both reasonable and productive.
Knouft is perfectly equipped to han-dle
this facet of the position, as much of his
research focuses on the intersection between
social systems and biological or ecological
systems. For instance, he has engaged in re-search
which seeks to assess how much the
American public is willing to pay in taxes
to increase water quality. Projects like this
mean that Knouft is already experienced
in viewing environmental issues through a
public policy framework, a skill that will un-doubtedly
be utilized in his advisory role.
As Knouft prepares to undertake
the new responsibilities that accompany his
appointment, he does so with a clear under-standing
of his duties and the challenges he
will face. He is “extremely flattered” to be
chosen, but beyond the general pride asso-ciated
with the accomplishment, he is above
all eager to make a “positive and tangible im-pact”
on the United States and its environ-mental
policy.
magine a student
who has primari-ly
a mobility dis-ability
trying to
get somewhere
that has food
on a super icy
day,” said junior Samantha Moore.
“If they were to slip and fall, that
would be really embarrassing for
that student,” and “a real challenge
of trying to find someone to help
you get up and get to your destina-tion
safely.”
This could be the unfortu-nate
reality for many students with
disabilities on SLU’s campus.
However, icy sidewalks
during the winter are not the only
thing that these students must
worry about on a daily basis—some
issues may even be under SLU’s ju-risdiction.
While SLU boasts that they
are “committed to maintaining an
inclusive and accessible environ-ment
across all of its campuses” in
their Americans with Disabilities
Act Policy, some do not believe that
this is a realistic reflection of cam-pus.
Majoring in special educa-tion,
Moore is one of the students
who sees the flaws in SLU’s campus
accommodations.
“There are multiple ways
that we could improve how we
structure the buildings at SLU,”
Moore said. Specifically, she finds
issues with the lack of handicapped
doors, housing accommodations
and outdated buildings on campus.
These are often obstacles
that junior Rene Runions must
face, a wheelchair user whose
voice is frequently unheard when
it comes to demanding change for
students with disabilities like her-self.
“I can only speak from be-ing
a wheelchair user perspective,
but several buildings, such as the
lower [level] of the BSC, Postal Of-fice
and Starbucks” are not easily
accessible for her. “I’ve tried get-ting
these accessible buttons for
the past 2 years I’ve attended SLU”
said Runions.
Moore also said that the
disability entrances of campus
buildings require students to go
“in a completely different way than
other students do and that can be
a major hassle, causing you to take
more time to get to certain places
than could be unnecessary.” While
this aggravates Moore, she finds a
specific problem with the way that
students with disabilities must en-ter
lecture halls.
In one of her lectures, a
student had to take the elevator
to the bottom floor, enter with the
professor before class, sit in the
front row, then make sure to leave
with the professor so they didn’t
get stuck at the bottom of the lec-ture
hall after class.
“What if they don’t want
to sit in the front? Where is their
choice in the matter?” said Moore.
Although SLU administra-tion
advertises how old many of
the buildings on campus are, this
is unfortunately reflected in their
out-of-date disability accommoda-tions
as well. Even with the new-er
additions to SLU’s campus, like
Grand and Spring Hall, there are
still areas that are lacking.
With Moore’s sophomore
year roommate being handicapped,
she thought it was necessary for
Housing and Residential Life to ac-count
for how much room a person
may need with their disability—but
even the new dorms couldn’t cut it.
“I lived in Grand Hall last
year which was big and beautiful,
and we lived in an accessible room,
however, there sometimes can be a
lot of equipment that comes with
someone’s disability and some-times
it’s hard to find places to put
everything,” she said.
For Moore, it becomes hard
to feel school pride for a campus
that excludes those with disabili-ties.
“I know as a special education
major specifically, I am very at-tuned
to what areas are not acces-sible…
you see that there are a lot
of things that are off limits, which
they shouldn’t be,” she said.
While conditions on SLU’s
campus may be livable for students
with disabilities, it is more difficult
than it could be for a group that is
already at a disadvantage mobili-ty-
wise.
Even if students are not
going into a special education field
like Moore, the hope is that the
entire SLU community take into
account how much more difficult
life on campus could be for those
with a disability. Hopefully, this
SLU’S CAMPUS LACKS
DISABILITY ACCOMMODATIONS
“I
News 05
Illustration Courtesy of
Ashlee Kothenbeutel
DPS
REPORTS
A student DJ working for KSLU
reported a stolen wallet from a
desktop in the KSLU studio on
Feb. 3 at 4:07 p.m. The student left
the wallet unattended between
2:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. There was
another student in the room when
the student left, but the victim
refused to identify them.
On Feb. 6, at 8:55 p.m. DPS offi-cers
were alerted of an auto theft
after a student going to the library
was stopped at the Pius Loop by
a suspect who displayed a hand-gun
tucked into their waist band.
She complied with the assailants
demand for her to drop her keys
which he proceeded to scoop up
and rush towards her vehicle. He
was joined by four other suspects,
before driving west down Lindell.
SLPD responded and filed a report.
At 12:50 p.m. on Feb. 12, a sus-pect
wearing white tennis shoes
and blue jean jacket approached
a SLU Faculty member from
behind. Her cell phone and
credit card were grabbed from
her hands while she was try-ing
to operate a city meter pay
box. The suspect proceed to run
through campus and was later
caught on university security
cameras on Lindell Blvd.
By RILEY MACK
News Editor
will cause all students to help be
the change that the disabled com-munity
needs.
“I think that just with small
efforts and with more communi-ty
outreach there could be a lot of
change in that area to make people
even more proud of the accessibili-ty
and the safety and support of our
campus for students with disabili-ties,”
said Moore.
06 Arts and life
mere five months
after the release of
“Sweetener,” Ari-ana
Grande rides
on the pop album’s
success with her
new album “thank
u, next,” shar-ing
the same name as the quietly
dropped breakup anthem. Relying
more heavily on beats than vocal
riffs, “thank u, next” is the dark-er,
more experienced older sister
of “Sweetener,” both aesthetically
and musically.
The more minimal production of
the more emotional tracks draws
attention to the lyrics and vo-cals,
namely in the standout song,
“ghostin.” People widely speculate
that it tells the story of Grande
mourning the loss of her former
boyfriend, Mac Miller, and its im-pact
on her relationship with ex-fi-ance
Pete Davidson.
