The Student Voice of MSU Denver
Volume 38, Issue 9
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October 8, 2015
News
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National Planned Parenthood debate enflamed PAGE 4 >>
Features
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Disability awareness fair welcomes all PAGE 10 >>
Spective
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Damsels in distress turn to imaginative revenge PAGE 12 >>
Christina Hoff seeks refuge in the arms of her mother, Martha Hoff, during the candlelight vigil and moment of silence Oct. 3 at the Colorado State Capitol. Christina fled Burma (now Myanmar) in 2008, when she was adopted by Martha. Photos by Alyson McClaran • amcclara@msudenver.edu
Glow of good will Coloradans rally for US to accept more refugees
is so beautiful,” Kassir said. “My dad is from Syria. My dhirsch6@msudenver.edu mom is from Iowa. Home is Local supporters of Syrian where your mother is. My father’s mother is not at home refugees lined the Colorado State Capitol steps Oct. 3, right now.” Kassir, along with Nadeen holding candles hoping Ibrahim and Bosnian refugee, to get the U.S. to welcome Erna Lukac, created the thousands more from the event and mobilized the war-torn region. support of more than a dozen Event organizer Amal organizations, including the Kassir, a Syrian-American Muslim Student Association poet with a personal at Auraria Campus. The connection to the cause, event spanned over an hour was moved as she took the featuring speakers, music and microphone. “Oh my goodness, the light a moment of silence. By Deanna Hirsch
Ibrahim explained that 477,906 people have fled Syria so far, with numbers climbing daily. The European Union has made a plan for only 120,000 refugees, numbers corroborated by the United Nations. Ibrahim shared the group’s mission with the crowd, saying they were calling upon the U.S. to take in 65,000 Syrians by 2016.
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Sports
Taekwondo fights under the radar PAGE 14 >>
<< Syrian-American Amal Kasir, accompanied by musician Yassir Kasir, shares her original poetry with the crowd.