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Volume 50, Issue 76 | monday, january 25, 2016 | ndsmcobserver.com
By LUCAS MASIN-MOYER News Writer
Observer Staff Report
On Friday, as part of the “Folio Friday” lecture series, Peter Holland, the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies, spoke on impact of genre classification in the First Folio. The First Folio, currently on display in the Hesburgh Library, is Shakespeare’s first published collection of plays. Holland began his talk with a discussion of the history and the importance of the First Folio. “The “First Folio” was
The Obser ver General Board elected current News Editor Margaret Hy nds as Editor-in-Chief for the 2016-2017 term this Saturday. Hy nds, a junior liv ing in Pangborn Hall, is currently pursuing a major in political science w ith a minor in business economics. “Margaret is one of the most talented, resourceful and reliable reporters at this newspaper, and I can think of no one better to take on this position,”
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ZACH LLORENS | The Observer
Shakespeare’s First Folio is on display at Hesburgh Library until the end of the week and the Folio Friday series will conclude Friday.
current Editor-in-Chief Greg Hadley said. “This coming year w ill be a busy one for The Obser ver, but
Editor-in-Chief 2016-2017
Lecture highlights classifications in Shakespeare’s plays
Observer elects new top editor Margaret Hynds
Professor examines genres
under Margaret’s leadership, I am confident it w ill also be a historic one.” A McLean, Virginia see EDITOR PAGE 3
Labor Café fosters Lecturer explores discussion on managment Syrian conflict By ALINE IRIHAMYE News Writer
The Center for Civ il and Human Rights hosted a lecture Friday afternoon by Radwan Ziadeh, a senior analyst at the Arab Center in Washington D.C., a v isiting scholar at Columbia Universit y, the founder and director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Sy ria and the head of the Sy rian Commission for Transitional Justice. Ziadeh said he has worked in the field of transitional justice since 2007. “W hen the Sy rian uprising started in March 2011, it was a moment for not only Sy rian scholars, but also for all Sy rian people to start a transition in [the countr y],” Ziadeh said. “The martial law had been declared in Sy ria from 1963 until 2011, which is almost 49 years.” Ziadeh said Sy ria was under martial law, or militar y dictatorship, for longer than any other countr y in the world. “A ll [constitutional rights] had been suspended: freedom of association, freedom
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of expression, all of that had been under systematic attack by the Assad government. Sy rians have, as they say, thousands of reasons to rebel against the government,” he said. Ziadeh said the uprising in Sy ria was inspired by the peaceful demonstrations that erupted in Tunisia, Eg y pt, Yemen and Libya. “My hometow n, Daar ya, which is 70 kilometers south of Damascus ... is quite famous because of the name Ghiyath Matar, who the Washington Post called ‘Little Gandhi,’” Ziadeh said. Ziadeh said Ghiyath Matar was inspired by the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Matar believed, “we are not in a war or fighting. ... We need to build a better Sy ria.” Matar was arrested and died under torture and Ziadeh said, “His death was actually a milestone in the Sy rian uprising. If the Assad government dealt w ith peaceful activ ists in this way, it pushed the Sy rian uprising to turn to v iolence and to take arms against the see SYRIA PAGE 4
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By MEGAN SULLIVAN News Writer
Last Friday, the Higgins Labor Studies Program hosted Labor Café, an event held multiple times throughout the semester to promote discussion on work-related social justice issues. Daniel Graff, director of the Higgins Labor Studies Program, opened Friday’s Labor Café discussion. “The Higgins Labor Program … is an interdisciplinar y unit on campus that sponsors research, teaching and conversation on any aspect of the labor question, which is at the root of ever y societ y,” Graff said. This particular discussion was focused on the issue of abusive management, and Charlice Hurst, assistant professor of management in the Mendoza College of Business, ser ved as the discussion’s facilitator. “W hat I wanted to facilitate today is discussion around the culture of work, especially in the United States and sort of exemplified by what we see in
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MICHAEL YU | The Observer
The Labor Café series explores work-related social justice issues through a variety of discussions and mediums such as art.
Ama zon,” Hurst said. Ama zon, Hurst said, was featured in a New York Times article that highlighted business practices
that have promoted high levels of burnout among employees and an exceedingly
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