There has been a lot of media attention given to the genocide going on in Darfur in recent years. While attention is given to this crisis, many facts go unreported.

The responsibility for the conflict is blamed entirely on the Sudanese government, while the role of rebel groups is left out entirely. One fact rarely mentioned is that the conflict began with attacks by rebel groups on government targets.

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Tomorrow there will be a blood drive on campus and there, supposedly, is an outrage across campus because gay males will not be allowed to donate. This is due to federal regulations about blood donation collection and the leading facts that sexual contact between gay men is the largest reason that HIV/AIDS can be spread.

So should all of our gay male friends on campus be outraged? Maybe, but let’s look at the bigger picture here.

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I recently attended the opening reception of Chris Jordan’s “Running the Numbers” exhibition in the Union Art Gallery. As I walked in the door I immediately noticed something odd. There was a man at the far end of the room playing classical acoustic Spanish music. It took about 20 minutes for the double-take to complete itself, for my mind in its nonplus to finally say “that doesn’t make sense.”

The music had seemingly nothing to do with the artwork of large digital print photomosaics, critically portraying materialism and different commercial products. Most of the prints look incomprehensible until close inspection reveals which commodity is being shown. Some are arranged to form a collective image, including mountain scenery or Seurat’s famous Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte.

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When the UWM Conservative Union hired former Palestine Liberation Organization member Walid Shoebat to speak on “Why I Left Jihad,” scheduled for tomorrow, controversy flared and respect for the UWM administration and the Muslim Student Association (MSA) declined.

Members of the MSA e-mailed UWM administrators demanding the event be cancelled because it was a direct assault on Muslim students. The administration took the cowardly way out by folding under the pressure and taking down the banner¬ – paid for under contract by the Conservative Union – advertising the event.

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As this fall semester at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee winds down to a close, all students are aware of the meetings that need to be scheduled with advisors to weed through the overwhelming choices of classes offered. However there is one other source of information that some of us need to check before making the critical choices those classes depend on: our social calendars.

In the case of a few of my classmates, both past and present, this is perhaps one of the most important, and often overlooked, decision-makers for our class schedule.

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Dear UWM Post,

I would like to thank the Post for its recent article on the compassionate Care for Rape Victims bill (Volume 52, Issue 11).

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The Milwaukee Public Schools finance committee voted 4-1 on Tuesday, November 20 to provide benefits to the domestic partners of employees. MPS is now the fifth district in Wisconsin to provide benefits for unmarried families; the districts already providing these benefits are Madison, Middleton, Sun Prairie and La Crosse.

The committee’s decision moves the resolution to be voted on by the MPS board of Education. Expected to pass the school board, the resolution would include the benefits in teachers’ contracts that have domestic partners; the next step will be implementing the resolution.

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OK drivers, let’s be clear. You don’t like me, and I don’t like you. I am a possible impediment to your reaching your final destination in the least amount of time, and you operate the possible instrument of my destruction.

I cannot begin to count how many times I have had to either jump out of the way or run across a street simply to avoid one of you mowing me down. Frankly, I’m pretty sick of it.

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Jeers to the Muslim Student Association for its attempts to cancel former Palestinian Liberation Organization member Walid Shoebat’s speech on “Why I Left Jihad” scheduled for tomorrow. Bigger jeers to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee administration for briefly folding under pressure and taking down the banner advertising the event and creating monetary obstacles for the UWM Conservative Union in attempt to stifle the event.
Cheers to five legal Spanish-speaking workers at a sheet metal plant in Connecticut who took their company to court. The plant ordered its employees to speak only English because of safety concerns. The workers argue the rule creates discrimination and makes the work environment more hazardous.
Jeers to the wife of millionaire Steve Fossett, who wants to declare her husband legally dead after he disappeared in September while flying his plane in the West. The request was necessary in resolving Mrs. Fossett’s legal share of the estate, liquid assets amounting in eight figures, and other entities.

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