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Fighting the stress of war
Luke Fishman graduated from
the University in 2013 as a brain,
behavior and cognitive science
major. He is currently living in
Jordan where he works withInter-
national Medical Corps, a non-
profit organization that provides
aid and services to refugees.
What is your role in Jordan?
I am currently a mental-
health and community-protec-
tion intern with the non-profit
organization, International
Medical Corps.
As the devastating situation
in Syria continues to deteriorate
and the numberof displaced Syr-
ian refugees rises above 2-mil-
lion people, IMC has stepped
up its efforts to offer more and
more services in Jordan.
What were the most
important lessons you
learned at the University?
The first is to be a quick and
adaptive learner. I think at the
University of Michigan every
student takes such a broad col-
lection of courses that require
the use of a variety of skills in
order to succeed.
The second is to be open to
the people and opportunities
that present themselves in your
life. At Michigan, I was able to
meet and become friends with
people from all over the coun-
try and even world.
What would you like your
fellow Wolverines to know
about your experience?
Unfortunately, a large major-
ity of these refugees are women
and children. They are engulfed
in an environment of violence,
sexual abuse and a shortage of
basic amenities, such as food and
water. However, as bad as things
are,the workhumanitarianorga-
nizations, like IMC, are doing is
simply incredible. Because of the
work of these people, thousands
andthousands of people are alive
and have hope.
- CARLYFROMM
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Medical and Dentistry students honorthe families
of those who have donated their bodies to the
University of Michigan Medical School at
Rackham Wednesday.
CRIME NOTES
The art of
lock picking
WHERE: Modern Lan-
guages Building
WHEN: Tuesday at
10:35 p.m.
WHAT: A bicycle fastened
to the MLB bike racks with
a cable lock was stolen,
University Police reported.
There are no suspects.
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
What a klepto
WHERE: Art and
Architecture Building
WHEN: Tuesday at
about 12:55 a.m.
WHAT: A subject was seen
carrying multiple laptops,
University Police reported.
Police arrived and arrested
and jailed the 28-year-
old man for violation of a
trespassing warning.
Flu shot time
WHAT: Flu season is quickly
approaching. Students may
receive their annual flu shot
at the flu shot clinic. Fees
will be charged according to
insurance plan.
WHO: Campus
Information Centers
WHEN: Today from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union;
room to be announced
Regents
meeting
WHAT: The monthly
Board of Regents meeting
takes place today, and
the members will hear
comments from the
general public.
WHO: Board of Regents
WHEN: Today at 3 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union,
Anderson Room
Smokin' hot Ooh, shiny
Job search Art School
H. Ty Warner, the cre-
ator of Beanie Babies,
has been accused of
federal tax evasion, the Asso-
ciated Press reported. War-
ner, a resident of Texas, plans
to pay a $53 million fine and
jail time is also a possibility.
This week the B-side
explores Ann Arbor's
changing public
arts scene. Writers
explore financing and profile
Arbor Winds, the latest proj-
ect to be approved.
FOR MORE, SEE INSIDE
Inevitably, Kate Moss
will be posing nude
for the 60th anniver-
sary edition cover of Playboy
Magazine, the Los Angeles
Times reported. Bunny ears
are the wardrobe of choice.
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WHERE: 2100 block
of Bonisteel Boulevard
WHEN: Tuesday at
about 5:20 p.m.
WHAT: Police received
a report that a cigarette
receptacle near a bus stop
was smoldering. Police
came to the scene and pre-
vented flames. No injuries
or damage occurred.
WHERE: 1500 East Medi-
cal Center
WHEN: Tuesday at
12:10 p.m.
WHAT: A unknown
suspect stole a dozen spools
of copper wire from a
construction site between
3 p.m. on Aug. 22, and 7
a.m. Aug. 23, University
Police reported. There are
workshop
WHAT: The Career Center
is holding a workshop
to provide advice and
resources to seniors who
have established their field
of interest and are just
beginning to search for
potential jobs.
WHO: Career Center
WHEN: Today from 12 p.m.
to 1P.m.
WHERE: Student
Activities Building
speaker
WHAT: Established actor,
writer and director Simon
McBurney will share his
career experiences in the
entertainment industry
with audience members
and discuss his innovative
theater company,
Complicite.
WHO: Penny W. Stamps
School of Art & Design
WHEN: Today at 5:10 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Theater
Syrian military tied to August l
attack due to rocket trajectory -
Mountain troops
evidently fired sarin
gas on civilians
BEIRUT (AP) - The trajec-
tory of the rockets that deliv-
ered the nerve agent sarin in last
month's deadly attack is among
the key evidence linking elite
Syrian troops based in the moun-
tains overlooking Damascus to
the strike that killed hundreds
of people, diplomats and human
rights officials said Wednesday.
The Aug. 21 attack precipitat-
ed the crisis over Syria's chemi-
calweapons. The U.S.threatened
a military strike against Syria,
which led to a plan negotiated by
Moscow and Washington under
which the regime of President
Bashar Assad is to abandon its
chemical weapons stockpile.
A U.N. report released Mon-
day confirmed that chemical
weapons were used in the attack
but did not ascribe blame.
The United States, Britain
and France cited evidence in
the report to declare Assad's
government responsible. Rus-
sia called the report "one-sided"
and says it has "serious reason to
suggest that this was a provoca-
tion" by the rebels fighting the
Assad regime in Syria's civil war.
The report, however, provid-
ed data that suggested the chem-
ical-loaded rockets that hit two
Damascus suburbs were fired
from the northwest, indicating
they came from nearby moun-
tains where the Syrian military
is known to have major bases.
Mount Qassioun, which over-
looks Damascus, is home to one
of Assad's three residences and
is widely used by elite forces to
shell suburbs of the capital. The
powerful Republican Guard and
army's Fourth Division, head-
ed by Assad's younger brother,
Maher, has bases there.
A senior U.N. diplomat, speak-
ing on condition of anonymity
because some of this material
ammosm
was from private meetings, said:
"It was 100 percent clear that the
regime used chemical weapons."
The diplomat cited five key
details, including the scale of the
attack, the quality of the sarin,
the type of rockets, the warheads
used and the rockets' trajectory.
A Human Rights Watch
report also said the presumed
flight path of the rockets cited by
the U.N. inspectors' report led
back to a Republican Guard base
in Mount Qassioun.
"Connecting the dots provid-
ed by these numbers allows us to
see for ourselves where the rock-
ets were likely launched from
and who was responsible," said
Josh Lyons, a satellite imagery
analyst for the New York-based
group. But, he added, the evi-
dence was "not conclusive."
The HRW report matched
what several experts concluded
after reading the U.N. report.
The U.N. inspectors were not
instructed to assess which side
was responsible for the attack.
"While the U.N. stuck within its
mandate, it has provided enough
data to provide an overwhelming
case that this had to be govern-
ment-sponsored," said Anthony
Cordesman, national security
expert at the Center for Strategic
and International Studies.
The inspectors described the
rockets used to disperse the sarin
as a variant of an M14 artillery
rocket, with either an original or
an improvised warhead, which
the rebels are not known to have.
There is no conceivable way to
prove the rebels could not have
gotten them, Cordesman said, but
he added that the modification of
the rockets pointed to the regime.
The U.N. diplomat in New
York pointed to citations in the
U.N. report and a private brief-
ing to the U.N. Security Council
by chief inspector Ake Sellstrom
that reveal the scale of the
attack: The seven rockets exam-
ined had a total payload of about
350 liters (about 92 gallons) of
sarin, including sophisticated
stabilizing elements that match
those known to be in the Syrian
stockpile.
Riot police walk past a burning garbage bin in front of the Bank of Greece during a protest in Thessaloniki on
Wednesday.
Protests in Greece turn
violent after stabbing
Clashes in streets belonged to Golden Dawn. A Authorities said 41 people
knife with traces of blood was were detained in Keratsini, and
after anti-fascist found near his car. 36 in Thessaloniki.
Clashes broke out Wednesday Earlier, friends of the victim
activist stabbed evening between riot police and and residents left flowers and
thousands of protesters holding candles at the spot of the attack,
KERATSINI, Greece (AP) anti-fascist demonstrations in where blood still stained the
- Violent clashes broke out in Fyssas' memory in Keratsini and sidewalk. The head of a small
several Greek cities Wednesday another five cities. right-wing opposition party,
after a musician described as an In Keratsini, violence broke Panos Kamenos of the Inde-
anti-fascist activist was stabbed out near the scene of the stab- pendent Greeks, was briefly
to death by a man who said he bing, with hundreds of protesters assaulted by protesters when he
belonged to the far-right Golden attacking a nearby police station. attempted to visit the site.
Dawn party. More than 75 peo- The confrontation lasted more Deputy Prime Minister Evan-
ple were detained. than two hours, with riot police gelos Venizelos, whose Social-
The death of Pavlos Fyssas, using tear gas to repel youths, ist party is part of the coalition
34, drew condemnation from who set fire to trash bins and government, said Golden Dawn
across Greece's political spec- smashed up sidewalks with ham- had "violence asits priority and
trum and from abroad. While mers to throw rocks at police. must be dealt with as a criminal
the extremist Golden Dawn The clashes left a busy sub- organization."
has been blamed for numerous urban road strewn with rocks Hannes Swoboda, president
violent attacks in the past, the and smoldering trash for sev- of the Socialists and Democrats
overnight stabbing is the most eral hundred meters (yards). Group in the European Parlia-
serious violence so far directly Traffic outside the busy port ment, urged Greek authorities
attributed to a member. of Piraeus was disrupted as to examine banning the party
Golden Dawn leader Nicho- police cordoned off streets to altogether.
las Michaloliakos denied that stop protesters from reaching "Golden Dawn's openly
the party had anything to do the area. xenophobic, neo-Nazi hatred
with the attack. Similar scenes played out in even goes as far as murder-
Fyssas, a hip-hop singer Thessaloniki, Greece's second- ing political opponents. This
whose stage name was Killah largest city, where about 6,000 is shocking and intolerable by
P, died in a state hospital early demonstrators marched. Greek any standards, and more so in
Wednesday after being stabbed media also reported violent a European Union country," he
twice outside a cafe in the Kerat- clashes in the western city of said.
sini area west of Athens. Patras, the northeastern city of The rights group Amnesty
Police said a 45-year-old man Xanthi, the central city of Lar- International called on author-
arrested at the scene admitted issa and in Chania onthe south- ities to prevent any further
to attacking Fyssas and said he ern island of Crete. incidents.
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