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International Issues

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    By Jordan Grummer For students attending the UA from out of the country, making the transition from one culture to another can be a long, difficult process. The presence of 28 international registered student organizations gives these students opportunities to bring ...
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    In honor of International Education Week, the Office of International Students and Scholars, the Office of Study Abroad, and the Holcombe International Living Learning Community created an essay contest to “highlight the opportunities for international education all around us.” The essay ...
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    By April Robertson Prabuddha Lohani, an industrial engineering student from Nepal, said he is disappointed in some of the most recent Nepali national news. Last week, prime minister Karima Begum slapped one of her employees five times for sending an old car, ...
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    By Taniah Tudor Whale hunting in Japan has been a controversy for some time, but the controversy escalated recently when the country announced its largest hunt in decades. Commercial whaling was banned in 1986, but Japan has continued to hunt whales ...
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    By April Robertson Miran Gichki is a political science major from Pakistan. On Nov. 12, there was a suicide bombing in Pakistan against the International Services of Intelligence, and 32 people were killed as a result. Gichki shares his view of the ...
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    By April Robertson Shadi Jamshidy, a UA architecture student from Iran, was visiting family for the summer when the Iranian presidential election took place. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Mohsen Rezaee were the candidates. Ahmadinejad won the election, but pressure ...
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    By Taniah Tudor Coming to a coed university like the UA for undergraduate or graduate education can be a challenge for many Saudi Arabian students. In a large part of Saudi Arabia, sexes are segregated until postgraduate education, except for family ...