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VolXLVII, Issue 22
Smokers forced to 'buttout'inJersey DAINA HAVENS PERsPECTIVF.SEDITOR DMH724@CABRINI.EDU
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Summer "down the shore" this year will be budding with change after the New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act takes effect on April 15. The act will prohibit smoking in specified public places because New Jersey legislature agreed that tobacco smoke is a significant threat to the health of the majority of non-smokers, according to a synopsis of the act. New Jersey will be the 11th U.S. state to pass this law, beginning in 1998 in California, and most recently occurring in 2005 in Washington. "If they did it in New York, they can do it in Philadelphia," senior English and communication major Kelsey Kuhwald said, in support of the possibility of the law moving into Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is currently one of many states that is considering introducing this smoking ban to its many public restaurants, bars, transportation outlets, health care facilities, recreation areas and any public gathering and workplace, according to http://ash.org/smokingbans.htm
SMOKING BAN, page 3
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Being nearly blinded by the sun in 135 degree weather with the sun beating down, Senior Airman Barbaros Orion Fox stepped off a plane into Quatar. It was then the •realization of the war hit Fox. He was entering a. war zone for the next five months. The beginning of Fox's five-month tour that started in September, first landed him in Quatar. Fox had to switch flights with other first-time
airmen to reach the Balad air base in Iraq. The air base that Fox was beading to was 40 miles outside of Baghdad and in the middle of the Sunni Triangle, which Fox called "the worst part." The Sunni Triangle is a triangular area of Iraq that's inhabited by mainly Sunni Muslim Arabs, the group that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein belonged to. Voluntarily signing up for a tour to Iraq to work on aircrafts, do convoy duty and act as security, Fox was taking risks with 20,000 other members of the Air Force and Army. Fox said, "I was nervous, but I
The sign above indicates how many soldiers feel far away from home on the Balad air base io Iraq.
tried to keep my composure. I was with first-time airmen. I thought to myself, 'What the bell am I doing here?'" After landing in Quatar, Fox then jumped on to a C-31 to head to Balad air base. Fox recalled reaching the air base, stepping off the C-31 and going to a donnitory that housed 130 troops. That night a.s be tried to sleep, he heard six bombs going off. .Since Fox has been in Iraq and after hitting the three-year mark for the war, there are currently about 133,000 troops in Iraq. There have been atotal of 16,653 wounded and 2,332 deaths from
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the start of the war according to the Department of Defense. It was also reported by the New York Tunes that about 900 Iraqi civilians died in March, up from about 700 the month before. Also, 29 American troops were ki11ed in March, the second-lowest monthly total since the war began. Fox had to survive bombs going off everywhere. During bis tour, he experienced being in alarm red 69 times. Alann red means being in imminent
SOLDIER'S EYFS, page 3
Spring breakfunmakes college girlsrunwild GAIL KATHERINE ZIEGLER
STAFF WRITER GKZ722@CABRINI.EDU
Manystudents are happy to see the smoking ban go into effect in N.J.as ciggarette smoke poses a major health threat to non-smokers.
The American Medical Association issued a warning for female college students that the combination of alcohol, sex and spring break creates a possibly dangerous situation. This finding was based on a poll of college women and graduates ages 1735. Cabrini students had a range of reactions to the information
found in the study. While the study found that one in five women regretted sexual activity that they participated in during spring break, Laura Woods, a sophomore education major, didn't know anyone who regretted things that they had done. Woods said part of the reason for that may be because "spring break is not a big Cabrini tradition." Woods also said that the AMA
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