Campus brief
Law school houses gun control debate
Gun rights activist Don Kates and state
Sen. Ginny Burdick debated gun control
Tuesday at the Knight Law Center. The de
bate was sponsored by the Federalist Soci
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nia, who are in the ninth day of a similar
protest at that university’s administrative
office.
The students at Penn were the first in the
nation to demand their university withdraw
from the industry-backed Fair Labor Associa
tion and join the Workers Rights Consortium.
More than 50 universities are involved in
the hunger strike across the country, HRA
member Laura Gurley said, as well as
prominent public leaders such as the Rev.
Jessie Jackson and John Sweeney, president
of the American Federation of Labor and
Congress of Industrial Organization.
“By these significant leaders endorsing
the fast, they are acknowledging its impor
tance,” Gurley said.
The Fair Labor Association is a monitor
ing system that sends out representatives
from financial auditing companies to ap
prove businesses.
ety of the law school.
Each presenter was given 15 minutes
to present his and her respective cases.
After each presented a side of the de
bate, they were allotted time for rebut
tal and audience members asked ques
tions.
Kates emphasized that gun control legis
The more comprehensive Workers Rights
Consortium was developed by the United
Students Against Sweatshops in consulta
tion with workers and human rights groups.
The WRC is a monitoring system that veri
fies and inspects the working conditions in
factories that produce apparel for colleges
and universities.
Senior geology major Sarah Jacobson, an
HRA member, explained the WRC has de
veloped plans for employees to improve
their own working conditions.
“They do this on two levels. On the first
level, there are periodic unannounced in
spection visits in companies. On the second
level, there are labor and human rights
groups where workers can report com
plaints if they feel there has been a violation
of the code of conduct, ” Jacobson said..
The WRC requires a code of conduct that
sets up standards for women’s rights, the
right to organize, no forced overtime and a
living wage.
The intent of the hunger strike at the Uni
versity is to raise awareness of these issues
lation has not resulted in lower crime be
cause the people committing crimes are
not law abiding citizens.
“If someone is crazy and determined
enough to kill a bunch of people and
then kill himself, he is not going to be
stopped by gun control laws,’’ Kates
said.
on campus.
Students will also be able to request that
the University adopt the code of, and join
with, the Worker Rights Consortium in this
year’s student election.
Gurley, a senior international studies ma
jor, said the University serves as a mechanism
that can be used to create social change.
“The students have a voice. They can
change the structure currently in place by
using their power and voting,” Gurley said.
Sophomore history major and HRA mem
ber Halle Williams also supports the WRC
because she feels it empowers workers
.whereas she believes the FLA serves only as
a cover-up for corporations.
“Student democracy is important. Stu
dents should have rights because they pay to
be here,” Williams said.
HRA members ended the hunger strike
with a candlelight vigil Tuesday night at the
EMU Amphitheater. Jacobson said alliance
members broke bread to end the fast because
they collectively wanted to remember the
purposes of their actions.
CRIME
WATCH
(Reported from Feb. 3 to Feb. 13)
Feb. 3: Criminal Mischief II, 2000 block of
Alder Street, vehicle door and fender dam
aged
Feb. 3: Assault Ill/Robbery III, 400 block of
East 19th Avenue, individual attacked by 3
subjects
Feb. 7: Burglary 1,1400 block of Alder Street,
personal items stolen
Feb. 13: Assault/Criminal Trespass II, 2000
block of Centennial Boulevard, bouncer as
saulted
Feb. 13: Criminal Mischief II, 600 block of
East 19th Avenue, sign torn from building,
thrown at police officer
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Apocalypse
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slow motion with a swinging
American flag, and a young cou
ple play the animal cracker game,
but in the end, there is just a big
boom.
Instead of Bruce Willis and
Ben Affleck this film stars Josh
Sidis and Dan Johnson, two un
declared freshman at the Univer
sity. And although “Apocalypse”
is not running in mainstream the
aters around the country and is
not nominated for an Academy
Award, it did win first prize at
the Northwest Youth Film Festi
val and will be shown on prime
time HBO for a year, starting in
May. Sidis said “Apocalypse”
was selected among approxi
mately 1,000 films.
When Sidis, Johnson and their
high school friends made the film
during their senior year, they did
not expect it to win an award and
run on TV. The group had a budg
et of $200, which Bill Schaumberg
and Jamie Kirkland, the produc
ers, had saved from the revenues
of “Bond,” a previous film, and
were able borrow equipment from
Michael McNamara, a profession
al Hollywood Director.
Sidis said when Schaumberg
was notified that the film was se
lected for an award in the festi
val, the group did not know it
had won first place but were ex
cited.
“Bill gets a call one day and
someone says, ‘You guys won,’"
Sidis said. “I think everybody
was blown away,”
Schaumberg said he and the
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the festival, but his only goal was
to finish it in time to show it at
Portland’s Hollywood theater a
year after a previous film had
been a success.
“Just to see it finished and take
life, there’s no words to that,”
Schaumberg said.
He said the group was pressed
for time when making the film
and the only goal was to fill up
the movie theater one more time.
The energy and response from
the audience had been positive
the previous year, and Schaum
berg wanted the group to have
that experience again. The victo
ry at the Northwest Film Youth
Festival was just an additional
perk.
“Everything we had dreamed
of had come true,” Schaumberg
said.
Sidis said “Apocalypse”
played for two nights and al
though the Rose Festival took
place at the same time, “Apoca
lypse” was completely sold out
the first night and only a few
seats were left the second night.
Together with his high school
friends, Sidis has acted in a num
ber of films and is part of the pro
duction company II Comedio,
which was established by four
former theater students at Grant
High School.
Johnson and Sidis said they
will take on another project next
summer and are looking forward
to reuniting with their friends.
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