What's Happening?

Want to Join?

Anyone can join at any time!
We invite you all to come on over, our meetings are held in International House every Sunday at 8pm in the TV lounge on the second floor.

Now?

Involvement Carnival - Didn't see us? That's because we got kicked out of our spot by a gospel group. We fought them off! but they won, so sorry if you didn't get to stop by.

We just started off the year and would love for everyone who wants to join to come. International Lounge on Sunday at 7pm, upstairs directly back from the stairs. If their is an evacuation for the "hurricane/ barely tropical storm" don't kill yourself trying to get there, we strongly discourage that, (and take no legal charges).

Other than that, this Sunday's meeting will be a French presentation! We are also holding officer elections, so come and stop by, see you there!

International Student Organization

Where was the Public's Eye?

The purpose is to introduce new aspects of cultures and show events that effected the name and future of their country.

Tibet - Protests

With the Olympics starting in just a few months China has really begun to clamp down. Wanting to secure Tibet, they almost forced the hand of the protesting Tibetan’s by dressing up as monks to install protest so that they could deal with the brewing situation.

Other countries are really waking up and taking a look at the fate of the Tibetans and are responding. The Olympic torch, after a failed attempt by pro-Tibetan protesters to extinguish it in London, has been extinguished twice in France.

French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is considering boycotting the Olympics, and Hillary Clinton is pushing for US president, Bush, to do the same. British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, talked with Dalai Lama after shaming the public eye by remaining silent about the events going on, and he says now that he will be attending the Olympics and won’t be supporting the protestors, while Dalai Lama himself says that he wants to see a boycott of the Olympics.

Tibet’s past has been riddled with foreign occupation from China, Britain and Mongolia. After the Invasion of Tibet by the Chinese from 1950-1951 when the People’s Liberation Army crushed the resistance from the ill-equipped Tibetan army China asserted its claim of the people with the Seventeen Point Agreement which affirmed China’s sovereignty over Tibet.

The issue if or not China will give more freedom to Tibet remains against their favor. Though some say that if China does nothing the boycotts will be against their economies lucrative favor and could hurt them economically.

(Amanda Wohlfarth)