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Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her house following a rocket attack on the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022.
War hits close to home for Ukrainian Northwest student SIDNEY LOWRY News Editor | @sidney_lowry
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Over 5,000 miles away from his home of Lutsk, Ukraine, Northwest student Vitaliy Tsytsyk is watching a war in his country through a screen. Every few minutes, his phone buzzes with news from local Ukrainian journalists about the country he is far from, but everyone he loves is right in the middle of. Russian President Vladimir Putin made a speech Feb. 24 about sending troops to Ukraine for special military operations after decades of conflict between the two nations. “For the longest time, throughout our whole history, Russia has always tried to control Ukraine, but it just didn’t seem possible that something like this would happen in the 21st century,” Tsytsyk said. “I feel like I should be there, and I feel like I should do something.” When Tsytsyk first heard that Russia was invading Ukraine, it was just another night. He was on his way to get food when he saw Putin’s speech about sending troops into Ukraine. Just moments after, he saw a CNN broadcaster get interrupted by explosions while reporting in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. “I was just shocked,” Tsyt- -VITALIY TSYTSYK UKRAINIAN FOREIGN syk said. “I called my parents immediately, and they didn’t EXCHANGE STUDNET know yet, because it was the middle of the night and there was nothing going on in my city yet. I went to my car, I sat down and I didn’t go anywhere. I could not hold the steering wheel.” Recently, phone calls home have switched from catching up on what everyone has been doing to making sure his family is safe and asking if there is any news. “When they’re sleeping, I’m checking everything to make sure if something happens there so they know right away,” he said. “When I’m sleeping, they are sending me messages so when I wake up, I know they’re fine.” His hometown is in the western part of Ukraine, just under 250 miles from Kyiv. Despite being hundreds of miles away from where the initial explosions were heard, there was panic. The first day of the invasion was close to home when a TV tower was shelled at a military airport in Lutsk. “In my city, they didn’t hit any civilian buildings, but they were bombing in other parts of Ukraine. They bombed residential areas and high rises, they bombed kindergartens, they bombed hospitals,” he said. “It’s scary because even though at the moment, they’re safe, nobody knows what’s gonna happen; the situation changes in minutes.” “Sirens that warn of danger from bombs are heard every hour in at least one city,” Tsytsyk said.
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“It’s scary because even though at the moment, they’re safe, nobody knows what’s gonna happen; the situation changes in minutes.”
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Assistant professor of art history Karen Britt was featured in the November 2021 issue of National Geographic’s “Unearthing 100 Archeological Treasures of the Past” for her involvement with Huqoq mosaics in ancient synagogues in Israel. Mosaics built on the floors of ancient sites are Britt’s specialty. The Huqoq excavation project is centered around the excavation of a synagogue built sometime in the late fourth century or early fifth century. This ancient synagogue is special because the floor is a mosaic. Four floor mosaics were found at this site, and it’s Britt’s task to document, research and publish the found mosaics. Britt was originally pursuing a degree in languages, mainly Greek and Latin, at the University of Cincinnati. Britt planned on teaching Greek and Latin at a private high school, but that changed when she got invited on a trip to Turkey. Her advisor was a classical archaeologist and invited her to help on an excavation site at the ancient city of Troy in the summer of 1995. Britt said she figured out in one day that archeology was something she loved and wanted to continue doing. “I loved everything about the process of archeology,” Britt said. “That experience was a really pivotal one for me in terms of opening a door to a field that I hadn’t really thought about studying.”
The scheduled hearing for a felony case involving a Northwest student has been postponed to April 12 after 4th Circuit Associate Judge Robert Rice granted continuance. Logan D. Fainter, 19, of Macon, Missouri, is charged with invasion of privacy — a Class E felony — for allegedly video recording two female students in a University residence hall bathroom. After an arrest by University Police, Fainter was booked into the Nodaway County Jail Feb. 13. Fainter first appeared in court Feb. 15, within 48 hours of confinement, at which time Rice filed a bond condition of release from the jail. In arraignment, Fainter entered a not-guilty plea. The case was originally set for docket call March 1 in a criminal setting. Fainter made the court-allowed 10% bond payment, paying $500 of his $5,000 bond, and was released from the county jail Feb. 15. The court ordered Fainter to report directly to Private Probation Services in Macon, Missouri, to undergo a GPS monitoring system. He has been residing at his permanent residence since his bond payment. GRAPHIC BY SIDNEY LOWRY NEWS EDITOR SOURCE: U.S. NEWS
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