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First Wounded Warrior Scholarship awarded
KATIE MCBRIDE
kmcbride@kansan.com
The Office of Graduate Military Programs announced the winners of the first-ever Wounded Warrior Scholarship, which serves to provide financial assistance to injured veterans and primary caregivers.
The winners, Anthony Schmidteler and Jennifer Thornton, have both felt the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Schmidteler, a junior from Kansas City, Kan., was diagnosed with the condition after serving in the Marine Corps and be deployed to Iraq twice. Thornton's husband, Jason,
was also diagnosed with PTSD after serving in the Army and returning from two combat tours in Iraq.
According to Thornton, a graduate student from San Diego who was accepted into the School of Social Welfare for fall 2013, she was able to notice a change in her husband immediately after he returned home with his unit.
"PTSD manifests itself differently in different people. For a lot of people, it takes some time for it to fester to the surface," Thornton said. "For him, it was right away. He came home in September, and by Christmas he was nonresponsive and shutting the whole world out."
Schmiedeler also started to see changes in himself that resulted from PTSD.
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"When I got out, I was having a lot of trouble transitioning. I was having a lot of anxiety problems; I had trouble sleeping." Schmiedeler said.
It started to have such an effect on his life that Schmiedeler decided to seek help. Bill Steele, program assistant for the Office of Graduate Military Programs, read about some of his experiences in the letter that Schmiedeler submitted while applying for the scholarship.
"When Anthony first got out of the military, he had a very difficult
readjustment period. I remember he said in his letter that just walking from the parking lot to the building where he was taking his class would result in terrible anxiety and paranoia, to the point where he felt like he was going to have a major breakdown." Steele said.
While the adjustment for veterans from military to civilian life can be difficult, Steele says the scholarship can give some help to veterans who need it.
"It can be very expensive, time-consuming and frustrating to deal with the long process of recovery that some of these soldiers have to go through," Steele said. "It has a
tremendous impact on the family. This scholarship is just one thing that can alleviate some of that pain and stress."
Schmiedeler plans to obtain his degree in graphic design and begin work as a professional graphic designer. He hopes that one day he will be able to start his own design firm.
Thornton will begin coursework towards a Master of Social Work in fall 2013, and plans to work with wounded warriors and their families after she completes the program.
-Edited by Elise Reuter
WORLD
Gaza police investigated for shaving people's heads
ASSOCIATED PRESS
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Police in Hamas-ruled Gaza have started grabbing young men with long or gel-styled spiky hair off the streets, bundling them into jeeps, mocking them and shaving their heads, a rights group said Sunday
It is the latest sign that the Islamic militants are imposing their strict practices on the population.
Hamas has been slowly forcing its fundamentalist interpretation of Islam on already conservative Gaza since it overran the territory in 2007. The new crackdown on long hair and tight or low-waist pants — in several cases accompanied by beatings — appears to be one of the most aggressive phases of the campaign so far.
The crackdown began last week, and two of those targeted told The Associated Press said they were rounded up in separate sweeps in Gaza City that included more than two dozen young men.
House painter Ayman al-Sayed, 19, had shoulder-length hair before police grabbed him and shaved his head Thursday.
"The only thing I want to do is leave this country," said al-Sayed, who despite his ordeal defiantly wore stylish but outlawed narrow-
leg tan khakis Sunday. "I am scared. They just take you from the street without reason. I don't know what they are going to do next."
Hamas officials played down the campaign — a stance adopted in the past that allows the group to distance itself from a controversial crackdown while at the same time instilling fear in those it targeted.
Ziad al-Zaza, the deputy prime minister of Gaza, said the head-shaving "was a very limited, isolated behavior of the police and is not going to continue."
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights . . .
dent, administers some areas.
"They just take you from the street without reason. I don't know what they are going to do next."
Enshrining such separation in law marked another step forward in Hamas' campaign of imposing Islamic practice.
Since seizing Gaza from Abbas six years ago, Hamas has moved gradually in spreading its ultraconservative version of Islam. It has issued rules restricting women or
Hamas to investigate the "arbitrary detentions and violations of civil rights of civilians."
AYMAN AL-SAYED House painter
The hair crackdown came just days after the Hamas-run parliament in Gaza passed an education bill mandating separate classrooms for boys and girls from the age of nine.
Gender separation is already widely practiced in Gaza schools, as it is in the West Bank, where Hamas raid Mahmoud Abbas, the Western-backed Palestinian presi-
requiring them to cover up in the traditional Islamic dress of long robes and headscarves, but relented if met by protests.
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the Hamas
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Al-Sayed, the house painter, and 17-year-old high school student Tareq Naqib said Sunday that they were targeted by police in separate incidents Thursday.
barreed girls and women from participating in a U.N.-sponsored marathon, prompting a U.N. aid agency to cancel the race. Hamas activists have also exerted social pressure to get all school girls to wear Islamic dress.
Al-Sayed said he had just finished his work in Gaza City and
Those who resisted were beaten, al-Sayed said. He said he asked the policeman to finish the job of shaving so he wouldn't have to step outside with a partially shaved head.
was waiting at an intersection for a shared taxi when a police jeep approached. Al-Sayed said he was thrown into the jeep with more than 10 others already squeezed into the back of the vehicle. He said policemen cursed them on the way to the police station.
A young man came into the police station, saying he was looking for his cousin, said al-Sayed. One of the officers grabbed the young man, who had his hair in gel-styled spikes, and shaved his head as well.
There, the detainees were lined up, and a policeman began shaving their heads. He shaved two lines, from front to back and from one ear to the other, telling the young men they could finish the job at a neighborhood barber shop.
Naibq, the high school student, said he was seized outside his home and put in a police jeep along with four young men who had come to Gaza City from the southern town of Khan Younis.
"They said, 'we want you to respect our tradition,'" Naqib said. "They made a cross on our heads and asked us to leave and finish the shaving at a barber shop."
Naiqb's family is originally from Tunisia, and he said he wants to go back there, after he finishes high school.
On the way to the police station, police insulted them and warned them that Gaza is Islamic, said Naqib.
In another incident, a Gaza teen, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said he saw police beat three young men in downtown Gaza City for wearing tight, low-rise pants. The witness said the policemen beat the three with clubs on the backs of their knees and told passers-by watching the scene to move along.
Ahmed Yousef, a Hamas figure identified with the more pragmatic wing of the movement, said the police behavior is "absolutely wrong" and must stop. Hamas is often divided over such campaigns, but the pragmatists have been unable to stop the more zealous members.
Hamas is also competing with the even more fundamentalist Salafis, a movement that has gained strength and popularity in Gaza in recent years. Salafis have criticized Hamas for not implementing Islamic law in Gaza quickly enough.
Potter Lake was built in 1911 in order to combat major fires on campus. Swimming and diving contests were held there until the water quality was deemed poor enough to ban swimming in 1924.
in 1924.
POLICE REPORTS
Information based on the Douglas County Sheriff's Office booking recap.
- A 21-year-old female was arrested yesterday on the 900 block of Iowa Street under suspicion of possession of marijuana, interference with an officer's duties and intoxicated pedestrian in the roadway. A $300 bond was paid.
- A 22-year-old male was arrested yesterday on the 1900 block of Hill View under suspicion of criminal trespassing A $100 bond was paid.
- A 22-year-old male was arrested yesterday on the 3800 block of Clinton Parkway under suspicion of domestic battery. No bond was posted.
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