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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, October 25, 2000
Students plan to protest Israeli-Palestinian coverage
By Kursen Phelps writer@kanson.com
Kansen staff writer
Students will protest tomorrow the conflict in Israel and Palestine and what they say is biased U.S. media coverage.
The protest, organized by Phara Charmchi,
Kansas City, Kan., graduate student, and
Raja Abu-Jahr, Palestine, graduate student,
will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow
on the lawn between Stauffer-Flint and
Wescoe halls.
Charmilch said that raising awareness was their main goal, and that they would distribute articles about the conflict from non-U.S. media sources and would answer any questions people had about the conflict.
"We're protesting the Israeli occupation of Palestine in general and more specifically what is now condemned as Israeli brutality against Palestine by most of the nations in world." Charmilc said. "We're also protesting the amount of aid the U.S. gives to Israeli forces when it commits crimes against humanity."
Abu-Jabr said she hoped to give students a different perspective of the conflict.
"There is another side of the story. What people see in the media here is not the whole story," Abu-Jabr said. "People are being shot for throwing rocks to defend their land. They want freedom, and that's a basic right that everyone should have."
"It's been really horrible lately," she said. "It's not just a person being shot in the head or chest anymore, it's collecting pieces of brains. It's so violent and so disturbing."
Charmit said the demonstrators would protest against the Israeli military forces, not
"This is in no way against Israeli citizens or Jews at all and it not meant to be represented as a religious crisis," Charmchi said. "Rather, it is against the Israeli military's excessive use of force and the government — Israeli and American — sanction of that."
Abu-Jabr said she tried contact her family, who lives in the conflict-ridden Gaza Strip.
Sarah Rubin, Elgin, Ill., junior and KU Hillier member, said a group of Jewish students would hand out ribbons and filers listing Web sites where students can find more information about the conflict tomorrow at Wescoe Beach.
"We're just students for peace in the Middle East," Rubin said. "We are pro-Irael, but also pro-peace. I know they don't want any negative displays, and our biggest fear is that there have been some severely negative displays on other campuses. We don't want anything like that to happen here."
Rubin agreed that U.S. news coverage often favored the Israeli position.
"I think that since this summer's peace talks, it definitely took a pro-Israel slant." Rubin said. "For students here it makes for a tough, emotional, confusing position to be in."
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should begin arriving next June. The fare will be 50 cents for adults and children above the age of six. Children under six, adults older than 60 years old and people who are disabled or have a Medicare card will pay 25 cents. Monthly passes have not been developed, but could be added, Rexroad said.
The commission also debated the advisory committee's recommendation not to have advertising on the interior or exterior of the buses until the system was running smoothly and a policy could be set. They will revisit the issue in six months to a year.
Krebs and Rexrox agreed that the city system would complement the current KU on Wheels and give students more options. One of the routes will run from downtown through the KU campus and then south on Iowa Street.
— Edited by J. R. Mendoza
"We see it as an opportunity to coordinate and perhaps extend where students can get to on a bus," Rexroad said. In other action:
The city has contracted with MV Transportation to run the system at a cost of $1.6 million per year. The 12 buses will cost $200,000 each. The federal government would provide 50 percent of the operating costs and reimburse 80 percent for the purchase of the buses, Retrocard said.
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Mid-December start likely for city busing
The City Commission approved the purchase of 20 acres northwest of town for park land. The property is at the intersection of Folks and Peterson roads and is valued at $13,000 per acre, a total of $280,000. The property is heavily wooded and could be used for hiking trails and park use. No immediate plans are set for the property.
— Edited by Erin McDarlal
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