The Daily Barometer, Thursday, October 22, 2015

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Celebrating beaver country

Contributed by Hannah O’Leary

‘Come back to beaver country’ homecoming festivities to start Thursday

By Chloe Stewart

Come Back to Beaver Country.

The activities will kick off at noon in Thursday marks the beginning of the MU quad today with a homecoming a celebration for all of beaver nation: carnival and birthday celebration for homecoming weekend. This year, the Benny Beaver, who will be 64 years old festivities are getting revamped in hopes this year. Other main events include the of establishing a grand homecoming homecoming concert featuring Jackson tradition for generations of beavers yet Michelson and The Grange Hall Drifters, and Tailgate with Beaver Nation. to come.

Event planners recalled that homeThis year, the Alumni Association, the student staff of Memorial Union coming and its activities have been Program Council (MUPC) and the inconsistent and often met with lukeSchool of Arts and Communication warm enthusiasm over the past few have collaborated to sponsor all of the years. This year, everyone involved has events and choose this year’s theme, chosen to focus on establishing firmer News Contributor

traditions and engaging more with the community.

Among the key players in planning this year’s lineup is the Alumni Association’s Director of Early Engagement Matt Fenstermaker. The Alumni Association’s goal — in both their support of homecoming and their other outreach programs — is to create and maintain meaningful relationships with all members of Beaver Nation.

“The essence of homecoming is celebrating this place that we all call

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New art series to showcase unique artists on campus School of Arts and Communication hosts series of events

By Molly Duddlesten News Contributor

Contributed by School of Arts and Communication

SAC students showcase their artwork at the Fairbanks Art Gallery.

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This fall, SAC is taking things to another level in their endeavor to both educate and entertain students with a variety of special events by launching their new series, titled “SAC Presents.”

SAC Presents aims to both showcase well-known artists and give more obscure and unique artists a chance to shine and share their talent with the community through guest speakers, musicians and more.

“We are very excited about our new ‘SAC Presents’ series,” said Lee Ann Garrison, OSU’s Director of the School of Arts and Communication.

“When I arrived at OSU a little over a year ago in my new position as director of the school of arts and communication, I saw great things going on in the arts on campus. But few people knew about them.”

These opportunities complement the great teaching that our faculty brings to our students in the School of Arts and Communications.

Lee Garrison Director of SAC Caleb Rygh, a freshman majoring in digital communication arts, was excited to hear about the program.

“I had no idea what ‘SAC Presents’ was until just recently. But as an Arts student myself, I’m really interested in these events, and I can definitely see how they would benefit other arts majors,” Rygh said.

Garrison said that she and Larry

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OSU hosts Hiroshima survivor, NEWS, PAGE 2 The best athlete at OSU, SPORTS, PAGE 4 Palestinian student protesters, INTERNATIONAL, PAGE 7

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Hiroshima survivor to speak about WWII impact OSU will host Hiroshima survivor to share her story, history with student body

“This is a really great and unique opportunity for the students here at OSU,” said Robert Peckyno, public information representative of the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion.

Anne Bahde, rare books and history of sciBy Jordan Wilkie ence librarian at Oregon State Valley Library News Contributor and co-curator of the exhibit, gave a brief Today at Oregon State University from 7 account of what it may have been like at the p.m. to 9 p.m. in LaSells Stewart Center, C&E time the bomb dropped.

“It was 8:15, when the bomb hit. Citizens Auditorium, there will be a special guest, Hideko Tamura Snider, taking her time to were on their way to work, to school, running talk about her life experience as a survivor of errands, enjoying the beautiful sunny day,” the Hiroshima bombing during World War II. Bahde said in an email. “In an instant, after

a blinding flash of light, nearly 70,000 people closest to the center of the bomb were annihilated. The bomb obliterated everything within a four-mile radius.”

Snider was 10 years old when the bomb was dropped. She lost her mother, her best friend, her best friend’s mother, and the very city that she had known as home in the flash of an eye. She has had to overcome many hardships in her life to get to where she is today.

The tragedy was insurmountable, but even

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Students will hear how the world can rebound from such devastation.

Anne Badhe Rare Books Librarian

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Fans show support at the homecoming game fall 2014. This years homecoming game will be on Saturday Oct. 24.

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Continued from page 1 home,” Fenstermaker said.

The student staff of MUPC, including director Jessica Hammock, is also very involved in the upcoming event. This year, they put together Benny’s birthday party and a carnival photo booth, and have worked to promote homecoming and student leadership so that it is bigger and more inclusive than in past years.

“I think that’s what’s great about this event, we’re having fun with students, but then we’re also adding to those conversations,” Hammock

said. “So when students are getting a piece of cake or taking a photo, we can then talk about all of these things and how MUPC or getting involved in student leadership, that involvement can bring those benefits. And think that homecoming and our involvement is like the first hand kind of look at what that involvement looks like.”

Looking forward, everyone involved hopes to see even more excitement and engagement, particularly from current students, in the years to come. Specifically, there is hope that a homecoming committee made up entirely of students can be involved

The essence of homecoming is celebrating this place that we call home.

Matt Fenstermaker Early Engagement Director in decision making for future celebrations.

According to Shelby Ho l t e e n , Community Relations and Traditions Coordinator on the student

staff of MUPC, improvement and engagement for future beavers is one of the highest priorities for this year’s homecoming and for other student outreach initiatives.

“I think it’s such an OSU community based event,” Holteen said. “I think that’s why we are so adamant about helping vamp it or revamp it for the future, because MUPC itself, one of our goals is creating community.”

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OSU promotes free access to scholarly materials OSU hosts research panel disscussion, educates students on Open Access

By Marcus Trinidad News Contributor

To celebrate Open Access Week, Oregon State University hosted a panel of researchers in the Learning Innovations Center on Tuesday to spread awareness about what open access is and how it may benefit students.

According to the Public Library of Science (PLOS), open access is when scholarly information, articles and published journals can be accessed for free anywhere by anyone at any given time. This can range from textbooks, to youtube videos, journals and any kind of information that is academic.

OSU professor of biochemistry and biophysics, Kevin Ahern, has published an open access textbook as well as over 500 youtube videos of his lectures, with over three million views.

Through open access publishing, Ahern has increased his tenure at OSU while also giving access to information to people beyond this campus.

“I hear from students from all over the world and it’s heartwarming,” Ahern said. “I feel like I’m fulfilling that mission of the land grant which is making education accessible to anyone and everyone who wants it.”

Technology and communication has allowed

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According to George Poinar, courtesy faculty of the Department of Integrative Biology, having a free and accessible means of obtaining information has the potential to improve education in developing countries.

During his experiences in Malaysia, Philippines and West Africa, Poinar explained how he tried to help researchers obtain journals. The journals had to be constantly replaced because there were no air conditioned buildings to store them in, which caused the journals to grow fungi in the humid climate.

“Thirty years ago we would collect reprints from people where we only paid for the stamps to order the books,” Poinar said. “Now there are no reprints, you have to order PDF files that cost $999.”

The cost for information is not the only barrier.

Wanda Crannell, advisor of the Bioresource Research program, says open access is an important tool to allow failed studies to be documented. By publishing them, she hopes it will prevent the mistakes from happening again.

She explained that documenting and learning from those studies is a great tool for students of a research university.

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Biochemistry professor Dr. Kevin Ahern and bioresource research advisor Wanda Crannell discuss scholarly articles at the open access forum Tuesday Fox explained that open access publishing work to go on,” Crannell said.

According to PhD candidate Austin Fox, a does not carry the same prestige that journals main factor keeping people from participating have.

Fox has experienced a lot of pushback in open access is that it has some questions of legitimacy, as it deviates from the traditional publishing patterns today.

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Geist reaching new heights at OSU Multi-sport athlete makes her claim for best athlete at OSU

By Tim Wellette Sports Contributor

Fifty-one seconds left in the game and the team is behind by seven points. A touchdown is scored, and the placekicker takes the field hoping to tie the game. Every player, spectator, and mostly, the placekicker, is nervous; scared to let the team down. No one dares to breathe. The kicker looks up, and lets the ball fly right between the uprights. Tie game. They go on to win, 20-14 in overtime.

That placekicker was Bella Geist, sophomore goalkeeper for the Oregon State women’s soccer team. With a save in the 84th minute against UCLA last Sunday, she moved into sixth on the school’s alltime saves list. But soccer isn’t the only sport that Geist has excelled at.

Geist’s athletic career began when her mother, Alyson, signed her up for softball, basketball and soccer when she was 6 years old.

She played all three of these sports until sixth grade, when she needed to narrow it down to just one. She landed on soccer.

“I just fell in love with this sport.”

Geist said. “I just loved how fast-

paced soccer was. Building up and getting a goal, there’s nothing, no feeling like that. I love playing on the field and running around; I can have so much energy.”

In middle school Geist picked up yet another sport, joining the track team which did not peak her interest nearly as much as soccer.

“I hated track. I did mostly field events because I hated running against other people. Loved it in soccer,” Geist said. “And then I got into high school and I decided it was a good cross-training for soccer.”

Eventually Geist got friendlier to running against her peers, and hurdles became her “second love to soccer.”

Early in her high school, Geist established herself as one the premier forwards in the Portland area, becoming a first team All-Northwest Oregon Conference forward as a freshman. But playing for her club team, the Lake Oswego Soccer Club, she realized that her talents might be better severed as a goalkeeper and not a goal scorer.

“I’m trying to play on the field but I’m not to these kids’ caliber so (I say to myself), ‘Okay, let’s see if I can stay on the team as a goalkeeper.’”

Geist said.

The switch proved to be beneficial. By her senior year of high

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Geist stretches out for a ball against Colorado on Oct. 10, 2014.

Geist had 126 saves of her 191career saves as a freshman.

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Sophomore goal keeper Bella Geist makes a leaping save against UCLA on Oct. 18. Geist moved into sixth all time in career saves in that game. school she was the best goalkeeper in the state earning first-team allstate honors and NWOC Player of the Year.

Geist took her skills at kicking soccer balls and transferred that to the gridiron where she became the placekicker for the Rex Putnam High School varsity football team. Making 89 of 96 point after attempts earned her a spot on the All-State team.

“I just think that it was good for other people to see that girls can be on a men’s team and it’s not a big deal,” Geist staid. “You shouldn’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something, and if you want to do something, then you should go out and prove to yourself that you can.”

But her illustrious football career would not extend past high school as she pledged her commitment to head coach Linus Rhode and the Oregon State Beavers as a sopho-

more in high school.

“It was a no-brainer (offering Geist a spot on the team),” Rhode said.

For Geist, the decision was a nobrainer also. Not only did Oregon State provide her a chance to compete for a starting job right away, but it also has a veterinary school and a business school – Geist’s major and minor.

“On my way home,” Geist said “I was telling my dad, ‘This is the school I want to go to,’ and he said, ‘You need to wait. I know you’re excited but you need to wait.’”

Two days later, Geist committed.

“Some kids I knew committed to schools when I was that age and they would decommit because they were rushed into it but I did feel like that was it,” Geist said.

The decision would turn out to be a good one, where halfway through her sophomore campaign, she is making a threat at becoming the school all-time leader in saves.

I just fell in love with the game...

Bella Geist Sophomore goalkeeper “She’s done really well for us,” said senior backup goalkeeper Melanie Trumbull. “She’s kept us in a lot of games. She’s such an impactive player on the team, always has been.”

“I can’t believe that it’s only year two and I’ve already made my mark,” said Geist. “It’s really cool to hear that I’m moving up on the saves list and that I’m making my mark on the university, but my main goal while I have my time here is to just do the best I can for my team.”

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Football notebook: Beavers prep for Buffalos on homecoming weekend Beavers, Buffalos square off in the battle of the winless Pac-12 teams

By Brenden Slaughter Sports Reporter

In this edition of the notebook, we examine the storylines of OSU football as they try to move past their recent loss to Washington State, and how they look to bounce back against an improving Colorado team.

Colorado not the team it was 2-3 years ago:

competitive,” Bolden said. “They have some really good playmakers on defense and we are going to have to execute to come out with a win.”

Junior linebacker Rommel Mageo also played as a true freshman in 2013 against Colorado, and has noticed Colorado has a lot of the same personnel from back then.

“They definitely improved,” Mageo said.

“They have most of the same team from back then which makes a difference in terms of experience.”

Offensive Coordinator Dave Baldwin has been very familiar with Colorado over the last few years as Baldwin faced the Buffaloes three times during his tenure as a offensive coordinator at Colorado State.

Baldwin has seen first hand how the Colorado program has improved since coming into the Pac-12 in 2011.

“They are much more athletic than they have ever been,” Baldwin said. “They can run really well on defense.”

Since entering the Pac-12 in 2011, Colorado has found very little success in terms of winning, but this year has been far different for the Buffaloes. They have been competitive in every game that they have played in, including a pair of very close losses to Oregon and Arizona. Head Coach Mike Macintyre may not have the Buffaloes up to par yet, but he certainly has them playing better.

Junior wide receiver Victor Bolden has seen Challenges Sefo Liufau presents: Colorado improve since OSU first played them Entering his second full season as the starter in his freshman year. of the offense, junior quarterback Sefo Liufau “They have gotten better in terms of being presents many obstacles to the Oregon State

defense including his mobility and playmaking experience.

“Obviously he’s athletic,” Andersen said.

“He understands his offense and he has some experienced playmakers around him, he really isn’t tagged as a young quarterback anymore.”

OSU defense stout in 2nd half at Washington State.

After allowing 45 points and over 400 yards of offense to Washington State in the first half, the Beavers buckled down and didn’t allow an offensive touchdown to the Cougars in the second half.

For head coach Gary Andersen, the defense grew up in a big way.

“It was great for the kids,” Andersen said.

“It shows me that they don’t have any quit in them and that they have a great care factor in what they are doing.”

Mageo knows that in the 2nd half, the OSU defense played correctly for the first time.

“We finally bought into what the coaches were telling us to do,” Mageo said. “Everybody was finally working as a group and played as a whole.”

Offense back on track:

After being largely kept in check against the Arizona Wildcats and only scoring seven points, the OSU offense responded in a big way by scoring 31 points and finding their groove at times on offense.

“The offense made some strides,” Andersen said. “There were some bright signs, we ran the ball better, we made some plays, but there are a lot of plays that we left out on the field.”

Bolden who had his best performance of the season with six receptions for 79 yards and a 100 yard kick return felt like the offense went back to square one.

“We just went back to the drawing board and fixed some things,” Bolden said. ‘We went back to some fundamental stuff and it worked at Washington State.”

Andersen starting at center?

Wednesday was a bit of an odd practice for media onlookers, as Andersen was seen in the middle of the offensive line, hiking the ball to quarterback Seth Collins.

To be clear, the portion in which he did this was only about 5 minutes long, but the former center was proving he is more than just your average football coach.

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Reliving the miracle in the Big House

By Joe Rexrode

mouth guard so hard” that he couldn’t yell at teammate Jermaine Edmondson to block the one Wolverine in view, Wayne Lyons. But EAST LANSING, Mich. – Try to keep up with Edmondson saw Lyons and got him blocked, Michigan State instant legend Jalen Watts- Watts-Jackson cut inside, then U-M’s Jake Jackson as he races through the thoughts Butt came from behind and grabbed him. and emotions of a 66-hour span, from the The touchdown and fractured/dislocated football play that changed his life to the left hip came all at once.

Wednesday news conference that introduced “I was actually going to dive into the end him as more than just a name and a roundzone before I got tackled, because I didn’t the-clock replay.

Start with surprise. It was on the face of know if I was going to make it or not and who the MSU redshirt freshman safety, along was behind me,” Watts-Jackson said. “After with more than 100,000 fans at Michigan Sta- that, it was pretty much pure pain.”

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dium and millions of viewers Saturday, when Michigan punter Blake O’Neill dropped a low snap with 10 seconds left, picked up the ball and took a hit from MSU’s Grayson Miller and Matt Morrissey that popped it right into the hands of Watts-Jackson.

That quickly turned to realization. WattsJackson looked up at the clock and saw 6 seconds left as he started to sprint toward the end zone from 38 yards away.

“At that point, I knew I couldn’t be tackled, or (we) didn’t have time to kick a field goal or whatnot,” Watts-Jackson said in a packed news conference at Spartan Stadium, “and I started running.”

His father, Rick Jackson, and uncle, Michigan grad-turned-MSU-fan Julian Watts, already were on their way toward the stadium concourse. His mother, Terra Walker, was watching at home in Detroit, not realizing what was happening until her daughter screamed: “Ma, that’s J!” Watts-Jackson said he was “biting on my

then instant relief when doctors reset the hip shortly after arrival. Then came realization again, after Sunday surgery to repair the fracture and start a healing process that is expected to take six or seven months.

wheeled to his news conference, mostly uses a walker and can’t sit for long without pain.

Teammates and MSU staffers welcomed him home with applause and hugs and pictures Monday, and the ribbing is now in full swing.

“It first hit me after I got surgery. My family came, and I was just in my room, the hospital room by myself, looking at ESPN,” WattsJackson said. “And they just kept playing it back and kept playing it back. I’m like, ‘Wow, like, that really happened.’ “

“My teammates have been making jokes and stuff saying, ‘Bro, you’re about to get a statue made of you,’ “ Watts-Jackson said. “ ‘You’re going to get your name put up in the stadium.’ So really, they’re just making fun of the situation.”

His phone keeps freezing up, a reminder And Watts-Jackson is fine with that. The of the avalanche of texts, calls and social- main feeling he wanted to express today media followers it has absorbed since Sat- was gratitude, particularly for Dr. Mark Hake Maybe even a few seconds of horror. Fellow urday evening. and Dr. James Goulet at U-M Hospital and a members of the “Rangers” punt-block team “It’s crazy that 10 seconds that take you nurse, Kristina, who made him feel comfortjumped on Watts-Jackson in the euphoric from just being on a team or people acknowl- able. She’s a die-hard Michigan fan, he said, shock of a 27-23 victory. edging that you guys won the game to peo- but they got along and had long conversaThen the rest of the team arrived. MSU ple tweeting you and text-messaging you, tions “about random stuff.” quarterback Connor Cook joked that DemeFacebooking, saying you’re a legend, you’re “Everyone was congratulating me and just trius Cooper was shaking Watts-Jackson “like a hero,” Watts-Jackson said. “Like I saw on making sure I was OK,” Watts-Jackson said. he was holding a new Christmas present ESPN Le’Veon (Bell’s) reaction, and I just was “That takes a lot, because I know how big of beneath the tree, shaking it to see what was laughing. It was crazy.” a rivalry it is _ especially after seeing the way inside of it.”

Enjoyment has marked the past couple people react in the stands.”

“I saw LT, Lawrence Thomas, come over days, even though Watts-Jackson had to be Detroit Free Press and he was like, ‘Bro, you won us the game,’ “ Watts-Jackson recalled of the frantic few seconds until teammates realized he was hurt. “And he was trying to get me up. And I was like, ‘Bro, my hip, my hip.’ And he (put his arms out) to try to keep people back, and next thing I know, he was face-to-face with me, and it was like a pile. I was yelling like, ‘Get them off of me! Get them off of me!’ It felt like I was under there for an hour.”

There was more pain when the ambulance on the way to U-M Hospital hit a bump,

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Calendar Hiroshima

this history,” Richards said.

For those unable to Continued from page 2 attend the event, Badhe through it all Snider takes the encourages viewing the time to visit campuses like exhibit currently in the ours to warn against the hor- Special Collections and rendous amount of nuclear Archives Research Center fire power the world has. in the Valley Library —The “Snider loves to talk to Nuclear Age: Seventy Years students so they know what of Peril and Hope. is was like,” said Linda “The materials in the Richards, a scholar in the School of History, Philosophy, exhibit demonstrate the and Religion who is help- complexities, concerns and ing to coordinate the event. contradictions of many “Snider has to get in the right aspects of nuclear history headspace to talk about what since the atomic bomb was happened since it is still hard dropped,” Badhe said. for her to recall that part of Bahde hopes that stuher life while she prepares to dents will learn from the share it.”

Snider perseveres in order event. to share her stories and advo“Students will hear how cate for nuclear nonprolifera- the world can rebound tion. Her story is one that not from such devastation many people left today can and what they can do to tell as this year marks the stop the spread and use 70th commemoration of the of nuclear weapons, be bombings. touched by a message of “At the official commemoration both Mayors hope and peace for the of Hiroshima and Nagasaki world, and to learn the implored the public to listen value of peace in their own to the remaining voices of lives,” Bahde said. those that survived and learn news@dailybarometer.com

THURSDAY, Oct. 22 Event: 5 p.m. Premed Society Location: LInC 368 Dr. Bryan Ganter, orthopedic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic and OSU alum will speak.

Friday, Oct. 23 Event: 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. Collegiate Recovery Community Location: McNary 125 Stop by for coffee, snacks, a screening of the documentary The Anonymous People, and meet other Beavers in recovery. Allies of recovery and all others are welcome.

SATURDAY, Oct. 24:

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Materials Science PhD candidate Austin Fox and biochemistry professor Kevin Ahern discuss scholarly articles at the open access forum Tuesday.

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first started making his lectures public, but he saw the Continued from page 2 opposite.

“OSU could not have been as a graduate student from more supportive,” Ahern said. advisors when he started to OSU has recently adopted advocate for open access, but most have started to warm up an open access policy that requires faculty members to the idea.

“It is just a movement that to publish scholarly articles has to keep on going. It can be to the digital repository — hard changing from that old ScholarsArchive@OSU. OSU is also the first univerway especially to something sity in the Pacific Northwest so foreign,” Fox said.

Ahern expected to see a to adopt such a policy. Faculty similar response when he members can opt out from the

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According to Crannell, it is just a matter of raising student awareness to make open access more popular.

“Undergraduate students are the researchers of the future,” Crannell said, “If we show students how many times these articles are accessed and how many countries see those studies it will be very motivating for them.” news@dailybarometer.com

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Beating death of Eritrean underscores Israel’s tensions

By Daniella Cheslow McClatchy Foreign Staff

TEL AVIV, Israel – The accidental shooting and mob beating this week of an Eritrean national during a terrorist attack has revealed a level of panic and racial tension in an Israel beset by a wave of renewed Israeli-Palestinian violence that claimed four more lives Tuesday.

Israeli police said they’ve opened an investigation into the death of Habtom Zerhom, 29, who was mistaken for a terrorist during an attack that killed an Israeli soldier. He was shot by a bus station guard, then beaten by a mob.

He died Monday.

Video footage shows one person hurling a bench at Zerhom, and another kicking his bloodied body.

Israeli media referred to Zerhom’s death as a lynching. Meir Saka, a bus driver who stood over Zerhom’s body with a barstool, wept as he recalled the night on Israeli Channel 10 TV news.

“I was guarding over him with a chair to make sure he wouldn’t move ... and then I heard gunshots and I realized he wasn’t even a terrorist,” Saka said. “There was this atmosphere; everyone who came in, it didn’t matter who was there, boom, kicked him.”

The violence continued Tuesday. The Israeli army said forces killed a Palestinian

sniper firing from Gaza toward Israel. Another Palestinian was shot when he rammed his car into a group of Israelis waiting at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem in the West Bank, according to the military spokesman.

Also Tuesday, a Palestinian truck driver killed Israeli Avraham Chasno, 50, who exited his car after being pelted by stones near the West Bank refugee camp of al Fawar. The driver turned himself in and claimed it was an accident.

In the morning, Israeli forces killed Palestinian Oday Hashem al-Masalmeh, 24, after he stabbed an Israeli near Negohot settlement in the southern West Bank.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited Jerusalem in an effort to quell the violence that has killed nine Israelis since early October.

Israeli forces have killed at least 45 Palestinians in the same period, including at least 20 suspected assailants.

Zerhom’s death continued to draw attention. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Zerhom was in the central bus station of Beersheba when a Bedouin citizen of Israel, Mohannad al-Okbi, 19, entered the complex and fatally shot Sgt. Omri Levi, 19. Al-Okbi then seized Levi’s rifle and opened fire. Police units stationed outside the station rushed in and shot al-Okbi.

As Zerhom fled the scene, a bus station secu-

rity guard mistook him for a second assailant and shot him, Rosenfeld said. A mob then gathered and began beating Zerhom as he lay bleeding on the bus station floor.

About 34,000 Eritreans live in Israel. They crossed Israel’s border with Egypt’s Sinai over the last decade, fleeing persecution and lifetime military conscription. The Eritrean Embassy in Israel will attempt to repatriate Zerhom’s body, said Ambassador Tesfamariam Tekeste.

Israeli farmer Sagi Malachi said Zerhom worked in his greenhouse in the rural southern community of Ein Habesor. Malachi said Zerhom went to Beersheba to renew his visa.

Zerhom was “a modest boy, quiet, and all in all tried to do his best work. For us in the family it’s a difficult day,” Malachi told Israeli Ynet News.

Dawit Demoz, an Eritrean who arrived in Israel in 2009 and works for the migrant aid organization Kav Leoved, said the attack terrified him.

“If I was there at that moment, there is no difference between us,” Demoz said. “This guy was shot because of his skin color. Can you imagine if he was white, would he be shot?”

Demoz blamed Israeli leaders for fomenting resentment of Eritreans in Israel. Although Israel affords Eritreans protection, only a few dozen have received refugee status that would

allow them to work and live freely in Israel.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon said Israel apologized to the Eritrean government for the death and pledged to share results of the police investigation. Demoz questioned why Israel would apologize to the very Eritrean government that had forced its citizens to flee.

Beyond raising the plight of asylum seekers in Israel, the attack Sunday exposed fault lines among Arab citizens of Israel. Arabs comprise a fifth of Israel’s population, and have extensive family ties with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Ayman Odeh, chairman of the Joint List of Arab parliamentarians, condemned the attack.

“This is not the way of the Arab population,” Odeh said. “The Arab population salutes the just struggle of the Palestinian people but its struggle takes place through legitimate civil action.”

Al-Okbi was the second Arab citizen to attack Israelis in recent weeks. The incidents have driven a rift between Jews and Arabs in Israel.

On Sunday, four Israeli cities including Tel Aviv temporarily banned Arab laborers from schools, citing security.

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Palestinian students no longer a vanguard in anti-Israel protests

By Daniella Cheslow McClatchy Foreign Staff

BIRZEIT, West Bank – Palestinian activist Zeina Abu Hussein spent 10 days getting injections and taking medicine to speed the healing of rubber bullet wounds to her legs so she could persuade her father to let her attend a protest at nearby Beit El junction Tuesday. But when the protest day arrived, Abu Hussein was hunkered down in the library at Birzeit University, cramming for a midterm on Palestinian history.

“It’s not a surprise test, but because I didn’t go to classes last week because of the protests, I didn’t know,” she said. The exam was at 2 p.m. “Maybe if there are still clashes I will go” afterward, she said.

Birzeit University was once a hotbed of political activity and the site of dramatic clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian students.

But today, passionate student activists have only a small following and little direction from leading Palestinian politicians. That rais-

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Birzeit University deputy dean of students Fadel Eikhaldee says on Oct. 19, 2015, out of 11,000 students, 300 went to protests regularly. Behind Eilkhaldee is a poster commemorating his son, Laith, killed in confrontation with Israeli soldiers in July.

es questions about whether the recent wave of attacks on Israelis will be fanned into a full-blown revolt against Israeli military rule.

Since the beginning of the month, Palestinians have killed eight Israelis in stabbing and shooting attacks; Israelis have killed at least 45 Palestinians, including at least 18 suspected assailants.

Palestinians say they are motivated by Israeli attempts to expand Jewish control over the Al-Aqsa mosque grounds, a charge Israel denies. In response to Palestinian attacks, Israel has cracked down, using live fire at West Bank demonstrations, blocking three east Jerusalem neighborhoods with checkpoints, and demolishing the homes of terrorism suspects.

“The sense of the violence and incitement is much higher this year,” said Israeli army spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner. “But I would say that it doesn’t look as organized as it did in the second intifada,” a reference to Palestinian violence that wracked Israel, the West Bank and Gaza from 2000 to 2005 after Ariel Sharon, who was the leader of the Likud party, visited the Temple Mount, the name Jews use for the location of Al-Aqsa.

Radi Jerai, an alumnus of Birzeit University who served in Israeli jails for his activism in the late 1980s, remembered that the campus buzzed with activity.

“We had political discussions,

There is no plan.

It’s just students thinking we wanted to go there because of martyrs and the people who were killed.

The political parties outside the university don’t want to do anything, so we will do it ourselves.

Zeina Abu Hussein Palestinian activist symposiums, all kinds of different activities,” he said. He visited Birzeit recently to hear a student defend his thesis. “I didn’t feel that the students have political discussions. It’s a small number.”

Today Jerai lectures in political science at Al Quds University in Jerusalem, a campus he said is more active than Birzeit. Al Quds law student Muhannad Halabi, 19, fatally stabbed two Orthodox Jewish men in Jerusalem’s Old City in early October.

However, Jerai noted that even in Halabi’s case, “it is more individual reactions rather than an organized intifada.”

Palestinian media reported Israeli troops suppressed a demonstration Monday at Tulkarm’s Palestine Technical University; the Israeli army

did not respond to requests for confirmation.

At Birzeit on Monday, Abu Hussein counted tattered yellow flags of Fatah, the dominant party in the West Bank, in a closet in preparation for the next day’s protest.

She said many more women were present at Beit El demonstrations this year than in the past, mostly collecting stones for their male friends to hurl at soldiers. Yet beyond the near-daily clashes at Beit El, she did not know of a further vision.

“There is no plan,” she said. “It’s just students thinking we wanted to go there because of the martyrs and the people who were killed.

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Deputy dean of student affairs Fadel Eikhaldee said that of 11,000 students, perhaps 300 attended protests regularly and 14 had been Continued from page 7 The political parties outside the university arrested since October. He said the university don’t want to do anything, so we will do it had made limited contingency plans for a more sustained uprising, like arranging alternate ourselves.” housing for commuters who might get stopped The university’s Facebook page reflects the at checkpoints. balance of academia and activism. Posts adverEikhaldee said Birzeit had outlawed weaptise a film festival, an engineering lecture and breast cancer awareness alongside notices of ons on campus but stopped short of condemnarrested students and a tribute to Omar Faqih, ing armed attacks on Israelis.

“The university does not intervene with the a Birzeit alumnus who died Saturday after he allegedly stabbed a border police officer in politics of factions,” he said.

Hebron in the West Bank.

Next door to the Fatah closet at Birzeit was

the Hamas room, piled with green flags and a red drum set but empty of activists.

Mohammed Aruri, a computer science major and a Hamas representative on the student council, recalled Birzeit’s old days. He said he was in his sixth year because serving in jail had interrupted his studies.

“This university has produced the engineer Yehiya Ayyash and Bilal Barghouti,” he said, referring to the chief Hamas bomb maker in the 1990s and a senior Hamas operative. “They performed distinguished acts against the occupation.”

In the current escalation, Aruri said he noticed the Hamas movement was staying quiet.

“The boys and girls of Hamas cannot come out in the open and demonstrate or make operations or lead, because they will get arrested by both the Palestinian Authority and Israel,” he said.

Jerai attributed the reduced role of Palestinian students in part to the distance of Israeli forces. In the first intifada, which began in 1987, Israeli troops directly patrolled Palestinian cities and erected checkpoints at the entrances to Birzeit. Under the Oslo Accords of

1995, which set Israel and Palestinian leaders on a peace process, Palestinian security forces enforce the peace inside Palestinian cities.

“The clash between the people and the Israeli troops then was face to face,” Jerai said.

“Now those who want to do anything against Israelis have to go outside the cities.”

Without any clear directives from the top, students said they are organizing on the grassroots level. On Monday Abu Hussein said six buses would transport students to the Beit El checkpoint the following day; in reality, only two buses were needed because attendance was low.

Deputy dean Eikhaldee said the university was relaxing some attendance rules for students, but law student Bara, 20, said she could not skip class for a protest.

“We’d like to defend our homeland and join the activities, but the teachers are giving homework and tests, and we have to stay home and study,” said Bara, who declined to give her last name. “If you miss four classes you will be expelled.”

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Journalism student and Fateh movement activist Zeina Abu Hussein organizes yellow Fateh flags on Oct.19, 2015, in the party’s storage closet in preparation for a demonstration at an Israeli checkpoint.