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Interest in Arabic peaks after terror attacks
By UMARAH ALI
The Red & Black
Language-learning can mean
more than just fulfilling a
University requirement some
times, it can lead to a more cul
tured outlook.
Initially, languages such as
Quranic Arabic and Biblical
Hebrew were taught at the
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By CAREY O’NEIL
The Red & Black
Editors note: Last year, The
Red & Black began compil
ing crime data to create an
online crime map. For this
semester-long series we
took that crime data and
found the 10 most crime
ridden residential streets
in Athens Clarke-County.
With Jan. 1, 2010 as our
starting date, we tallied the
crimes on the streets of the
University’s home county
to create our list. Though
not a street, Russell Hall,
home to more than 900 stu
dents, is fourth in the
series.
Conner Pawlowski
knew he’d have to
break a sweat if he
was ever going to perfect
his kickflip.
Skateboarding outside
Russell Hall on a humid
August day, the freshman
began to worry his perspi
ration would damage his
iPhone.
“I set it down under
neath a bench for a second,
for literally no more than a
minute, and it was gone,”
the Russell resident said.
Pawlowski’s story is not
entirely unusual for the
area. Since January, Russell
has had 39 incidents requir
ing police involvement, 15
of which have been thefts
and burglaries.
University Police Chief
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University to teach students to
read the Quran and the Bible in
their original form. Soon after
the programs began, demand for
variations of the languages
particularly Arabic increased.
“After 9/11, Interest in Arabic
languages skyrocketed,” said
Alan Qodlas, co-head of the
Arabic at the University.
A sense of “Islamophobia"
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Nicole Ayers and Matt Hartman, both RusseH Hail residents, say students
don’t always take the necessary precautions against crime in the dorm.
Jimmy Williamson
explained why he thinks
these crimes occur at the
rate they do.
“People somehow feel
that they’re immune to any
type of criminal activity, so
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began to spread throughout
America after Sept. 11, Oodlas
said, and more students were
becoming interested in the lan
guages of Muslims as a result.
Oodlas said through learning
Arabic, as well as other languag
es of predominantly Muslim
countries, people begin to get a
clearer image of Islam.
“By people learning these lan
if they leave their room to
go to the bathroom or go
down to one of their other
friend’s rooms, they’ll leave
their door wide open and
not think that another stu
dent may take something
‘Vogue’ halts publication to feature artist
Soundsuits react
to movement
By SHAWN JARRARD
The Red & Black
When Vogue magazine comes
calling, you answer —as artist
Nick Cave came to find out, you
just don't answer “no.”
“1 had just shipped out 20 new
[Soundsuits] to a solo show in
Sweden, and I. had no work to
show them," Cave said. “They
called the [New York] gallery per
son and the gallery called me, and
I said, ‘Well, yeah, I would be
interested, but I don't have any
work.’”
Cave, who is professor and
chairman of the Fashion Design
Department at The School of The
Art Institute of Chicago, special
izes in a concept he began craft
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guages, ignorant biases can
become dispelled,” he said. “If
students at UOA can leam these
languages, they can begin to talk
to more Muslims and see past
the bigotry."
Along with Arabic taught by
professors and Persian taught by
an Iranian graduate student,
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from them," he said. “It’s
more of an opportunity
crime than someone going
up around there looking to
commit a crime."
But with 975 students
living in the dorm —a larg-
ing in the 90s when he construct
ed his first Soundsuit using twigs.
“Well, the Soundsuit, the
beginning of this was in '92 with
the Rodney King incident,” Cave
said. “That really sort of turned
into me recognizing that I wanted
to be an artist with a conscience.
And then that moved into pro
ducing a body of work that
right now I’m thinking more
about the role of performer in my
work.”
These “Soundsuits” Integrate
performance art and fashion.
Each suit is made to produce its
own unique sound, which is
exhibited by the movement of the
wearer.
“The materials continue to
change quite often,” Cave said,
“keeping in mind that we’re very
interested in maintaining this
sort of renew, recycled, reclaimed,
the already-exists object or item
that's out there, as part of the
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er population than many
neighborhoods in Athens
the high number of inci
dents doesn’t necessarily
indicate Russell is danger
ous. With strict security
measures implemented by
the Department of
University Housing, most
all of the crime is student
on-student.
“When they hit a room
in a residence hall they’re
not cleaning it out of all the
electronics like they may
clean it out if they’re hit
ting an apartment,”
Williamson said. “If they go
in there and grab an iPod
but they leave the laptop
behind, you know that’s
more than likely a stu
dent.”
Many dorm dwellers say
they feel safe in the resi
dence hall. Russell resident
Nicole Ayers said she loves
living in her dorm, but still
wasn’t surprised to leam of
the large number of inci
dents.
Ayers said she’s seen
people in her hall become
increasingly comfortable
with the community and
ignore some basic precau
tions.
“I walk into rooms to
talk to people and nobody’s
there and it’s unlocked,”
she said.
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building and character of the
work. It always comes out of that
realm of reclaiming things that
already exist.”
What Vogue wanted was to
give Cave and his Soundsuits a
spread in the renowned
September issue of the magazine,
which this year boasts 726 pages
of fashion.
"So then [the gallery] called
[Vogue] back and said, ‘Well, we
just shipped out anew batch of
work, and so Nick really has no
work. Perhaps another time,’”
Cave said. “I mean, that’s all we
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Alan Oodlas
said studying
languages
such as
Arabic can
give a clearer
image of
Muslim cul
tures.
Is your hall
pulling its weight
as the dorms
compete to go
green? Find out
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