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THE SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT
4 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2003
International News Briefs
AP PHOTO | Anja Niedringhaus
A U.S. Army soldier secures the scene after a suicide
attacker slammed an expiosives-rigged car into a barrier
Sunday outside the Baghdad Hotel, in the Iraqi capital,
Sunday Oct 12, 2003, home to many U.S. officials and
security agents.
Six die; 32 wounded in
suicide car bombing
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Six
Iraqis died and 32 people,
including three U.S. Soldiers,
were wounded Sunday in a
sucide car bombing. Ahmed
Kathmn, a senior official of the
Iraqi Interior Ministry, said
most of the six dead were Iraqi
police and security personnel. It
was unclear whether the driver
was included in that death toll.
College student faces
pending litigation over
web posting
LOS ANGELES - Three
days after a Princeton graduate
student posted a paper on his
web site detailing how to defeat
the copy-protection software on
a new music CD by pressing a
single computer key, the maker
of the software said Thursday it
would sue him. In a statement,
SunnComm Technologies Inc.
said it would sue Alex
Halderman over the paper,
which said SunnComm's
MediaMax CD-3 software
could be blocked by holding
down the "Shift" key on a com
puter keyboard as a CD using
the software was inserted into a
disc drive.
Sixth-grade girl sus
pended
for
Muslim
head-
wrap
OKLAHOMA CITY - An
11 -year-old Oklahoma girl has
been suspended from a public
school because officials said
her Muslim head scarf violates
dress code policies. Board offi
cials met Friday to discuss the
fate of suspended sixth-grader
Nashala "Tallah" Hern, who
was asked to leave school in the
eastern Oklahoma town of
Muskogee on October 1
because she refused to remove
her head scarf, called a "hijab."
A school attorney said fed
eral education rules adopted in
1998 do not allow for excep
tions for religious beliefs.
"As 1 see it right now, I
don't think we can make a spe
cial accommodation for reli
gious wear," said school attor
ney D.D. Hayes. "You treat reli
gious items the same as you
would as any other item, no bet
ter, no worse. Our dress code
prohibits headgear, period."
* All information compiled
from cnn.com. This update was
compiled on October 12. 2003.
Situations mentioned above
may have developed further
since press time.
Students increase political
activism on campus
Erin Pierce
Staff Writer
“It’s another Civil Rights
movement” said sophomore
Sarah Thompson who is a
member of AUC Peace, the club
that organized a group for the
protest.
Members of Spelman’s
AUC Peace joined Georgia
State's Students for Peace and
Justice to go to the Immigrant
Workers Freedom Ride, the first
Atlanta protest led by Latino
People.
In Georgia, it is illegal for
undocumented immigrants to
get driver's licenses. Without a
driver’s license undocumented
immigrants can’t get jobs or
drive cars. Businesses take
advantage of the situation by
illegally hiring undocumented
immigrants to work for less
than minimum wage, which
protesters say infringes on their
human rights.
“Driver’s Licenses seem
of little importance but it’s the
beginning of huge struggle, like
sit-ins in restaurants in
Montgomery, AL” said Isaac
Silver, a student at Georgia
State and member of the
Students for Peace and Justice.
He added, “Lots of these
immigrant workers don’t want
be involved in anything politi
cal, so the thousands who came
took down a barrier; they are no
longer scared.”
Members from both clubs
say students should pay atten
tion to the protest because the
south is changing, with millions
of immigrants coming to
Georgia.
“You can’t be neutral in a
changing world, you have to
choose a side,” said Silver.
“Blacks need more partici
pation and consolidation with
the Latino community,” said
Sarah Thompson.
As the students left the
protest, Thompson said, “It was
inspiring; you feel like you’re
changing the world; it’s much
better than homework.”
SGA hopes to R.I.G.
the vote
Michele Bradley
News Reporter
This 2003-2004 school
year is lead by S.S.G.A.
President, Asha Camille
Jennings. The S.S.G.A. has a
host of exciting activities and
programs planned for this
school year. Coinciding with
the theme of the administration,
Establishing Greatness: On the
Road to Perfection, the
S.S.G.A. is actively presenting
the student body and staff with
programs, activities, and resolu
tions.
One of the biggest propos-
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