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How to Survive the
Holiday Interrogation
By Kassia Dellabough
The holidays are upon us once
again and most students are look
ing forward to a few weeks of
rest and relaxation over the winter
break. You’ll have time to sleep in,
reacquaint yourself with balanced
meals, and even spend quality time
with family and friends. Everyone
will want to know what you’ve
been up to at school—and what
you’re going to do after college.
Such uncomplicated questions are
meant to inspire pleasant, good-hu
mored conversation.
So how come you’re breaking
out in a cold sweat?
Right there, in the middle of an
otherwise lovely meal. Aunt Jeanne
is going to ask what sort of job you
can get with a Sociology major these
days. Then Cousin Lou will want to
know how, exactly, you’re planning
to pay off those student loans with
out any income. In a moment, an
innocuous family gathering could
explode into, full-fledged career in
terrogation. And you thought finals
week was stressful.
The UO Career Center can help
you navigate this holiday gaunt
let. Your family and friends want
to know about your future plans,
and we can help you make some.
Graduation might seem a long way
off, but winter term is the perfect
time to start lining up interviews
or cultivating a summer internship.
Throughout December, the Career
Center offers drop-in career coun
seling from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.,
Monday through Friday. Our coun
selors can help you identify a major
you’ll love, research internships,
take career assessments, or formu
late a job-search plan. We can help
you find all the answers you’ll need,
just in time for the holidays.
Call 346-3235 to set up a per
sonalized appointment today, or
stop by the Career Center offices on
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■ Tsunami recovery
New road commemorates
U.S. goodwill in Indonesia
BY DENIS D. GRAY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAMPUUK, Indonesia — There
aren’t many places in the Islamic
world these days where they name
streets after American presidents,
past or present. But through the
tsunami-devastated heart of this vil
lage, embedded in a highly conserva
tive Muslim society, runs George
Bush Bill Clinton Road.
“We are one big family and those
who help us are our brothers. So
Americans are our brothers. They are
in our hearts,” says Hasballah Ahba,
looking out from atop the village
mosque over his birthplace that the
giant wave obliterated and U.S. aid is
bringing back to life.
Just days after the tsunami struck
on Dec. 26, U.S. military helicopters
launched from an offshore flotilla
rushed in food, water and medicine
to desperate people stranded along
the Aceh coast of this Indonesian is
land, saving thousands of lives. Since
then, the U.S. government and the
American private sector have com
mitted some $1.6 billion to resurrect
communities like Lampuuk.
Ten months later, the helicopters
were back in the sky, along with an
Army field hospital and construc
tion battalion, when an earthquake
ravaged Muslim-dominated Kash
mir, and the reactions of some vic
tims to the Americans echoed those
heard in Indonesia.
“When they do something against
Muslims, we condemn them. Now
as they are helping us, we should ap
preciate them,” said Yar Moham
mad, a farmer in Muzaffarabad, the
ruined capital of Pakistan’s portion
of the divided Himalayan region.
Washington needs the hitherto ef
fective support of both these countries
in its counterterrorism campaign, es
pecially from Pakistan where leaders
of the al-Qaida network are believed
to be hiding.
But it’s questionable how far the
words of Hasballah and Mohammad
reverberate from the savaged shores
of Aceh and the wasted mountain
sides of Pakistan into the wider Mus
lim world. Even in communities of
the two countries being fed, housed
or nursed through American aid, sus
picions of Washington’s motives and
abhorrence of its policies in Iraq,
Palestine and elsewhere persist.
“The positive impression the U.S.
is trying to make through humani
tarian aid may have paid some
small dividend, but I wouldn’t over
state the ability of these kinds of
gestures to counter what is a very
strong anti-American current which
is directly connected to U.S. policy,”
says Jeffrey Winters, a political sci
entist at Northwestern University in
Evanston, 111.
Analysts also note that while Pak
istan and Indonesia have nearly 30
percent of the world’s 1.3 billion Mus
lims, neither country is at the heart of
the Islamic world, and within these
two countries both Aceh and Kashmir
are out of the national mainstreams.
Thus American aid to Aceh, Win
ters says, carries a limited amount of
payoff since many Indonesians re
gard it as a “pariah province” that
had fought a war for independence
from the central government.
Within Aceh, where the tsunami
killed more than 130,000 people,
even neighbors may differ drastically
about the United States.
In Teungoh Blang Me, where only
100 of the 700 villagers survived the
tsunami, many gratefully remem
bered American helicopter crews
dispensing sardines, instant noodles
and water after they had gone hungry
for three days.
“We’re thankful to Americans for
coming from so far away. We don’t
care about American policies as long
as they come to help,” said Fauzi Ali,
a 49-year-old schoolteacher whose
leg and both arms were broken when
his house collapsed under the wave.
He was certain to lose his infected
limbs until a U.S. helicopter whisked
him to a hospital and full recovery.
The tsunami razed everything but
the mosque and killed 80 percent of
its 6,500 inhabitants. Revival began
after Clinton and Bush, father of the
current president, visited in February.
Still on a long list of restoration
plans is the planting of tamarind
and casuarina trees along a street
that runs past heaps of debris. Once
spruced up, it will feature roadsigns
saying “Jalan George Bush dan
Bill Clinton.”
But in Teungoh Blang Me, a former
university student named Almizan
denounced the United States while
taking a break from laboring to reju
venate the village rice paddies — and
being paid $3.70 a day by the U.S.
government to do it.
While the once not infrequent
anti-U.S. demonstrations in Aceh
have stopped and polls show that
since the tsunami Americans are
more favorably regarded in Indone
sia at large, Madris Mardani of the
radical Islamic Defenders Front be
lieves the United States is up to no
good. He insists it recently pressured
the Indonesian government to hike
gasoline prices and suspects it’s get
ting involved in Aceh — “just like in
the governing of Afghanistan” — be
cause Aceh is the only Indonesian
province that enforces Islamic law.
Theft: Fifty percent of thefts aren't reported
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Ellis said.
“They’re doing it really fast,” he said.
When parking their car, students
should remove everything of value,
including stereo faceplates and
removable speakers, Ellis said.
Car owners should also make
sure that nothing of value is visible
in the car, Ellis said.
Ellis recommends having a trust
ed friend drive the car during the
break so the vehicle is not left
in one spot and trying to park in a
visible location.
Lack of prosecution by the district
attorney’s office, increased drug ac
tivity and a limited number of po
lice officers on patrol contribute to
the increase, Ellis said.
Students should also report a
break-in, no matter how small the
theft, Ellis said.
Police aren’t likely to catch the
thief, but Ellis said 50 percent of
thefts are not reported, which makes
it difficult for police to track crime.
“The best thing we can do is
educate the public to make themselves
less likely to be a victim,” he said.
“We’d rather not have the crime at all. ”
Over the Thanksgiving weekend,
eight cars where reportedly broken
into in the University area that Ellis
monitors, he said.
University student Elisabeth Foi
tle’s 2000 Toyota 4Runner was bro
ken into over Thanksgiving break
after she left it parked outside her
home near East 16th Avenue and
Mill Street while visiting her friend’s
family in Klamath Falls.
The would-be thief broke the dri
ver’s door lock but didn’t get into
the vehicle. Foitle was a victim of
theft earlier this year when some
one broke into her car and stole
clothing and perfume, she said.
John Lesh, a junior at theTJniver
sity of Montana, was visiting friends
when his car was broken into
between midnight and 3 a.m.
Thursday. Lesh said bags of
clothing, a snowboard and an iPod
were stolen, totaling more than
$2,000 in losses.
Contact the crime, health
and safety reporter at
kgagnon@ daily emerald, com
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