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Friday, April 11, 2003
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Interfaith lecture promotes
peace among all cultures
By Janet McLaren
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Buddha’s statement that “bet
ter than a thousand hollow words
is one word that brings peace,”
quoted by Erik K. Heard at a
Peaceful Heroes Colloquium,
was applauded by more than 100
students who attended the two-
hour lecture Wednesday about the
lives of peaceful leaders from dif
ferent religions.
The program was sponsored
by the Inter-religious Dialogue
Student Association. Suzan
Mertyurek, a staff member in the
Office of Graduate Studies who
helped organize the event, said
the overall goal of the program
was to promote peace among the
world’s religions.
“The main reason for this is to
talk about the lives of people who
strived to promise peaceful dia
logue, tolerance and understand
ing,” Mertyurek said.
Seven speakers, including
professors and students, dis
cussed peaceful actions in the
lives of religious figures such as
Jesus, Buddha, Mother Theresa
and Mahatma Gandhi.
Nearly all of the lecturers dis
cussed a person from a faith other
than their own. Juliet Jurkovskis,
a senior engineering major and
member of the Ba’hai faith,
spoke about Catholic nun Mother
Theresa.
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This is more
about how to keep
inner peace and
non-violence even
is right can have on others,
“These peaceful heroes
many of the same charactenst
that we can incorporate into
own lives,” said Betty Dal
speaking on Bediuzzaman
Nuris, a Turkish Muslim
nized as the 20th century i
of peaceful dialogue betwi
Muslims and Christians.
The Inter-religious Diali
Student Association was foi
last fall to provide a forum for
peaceful discussion of dr
ideas, said member Isil Dui
when you don't
agree.
major
— Patricia jasse
lecture attendee
“Mother Theresa herself said
she loved all religions, but was in
love with her own,” Jurkovskis
said.
The speakers emphasized the
common themes of peace and
love in every faith and the
impact one person who peace
fully stands by what he believes
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Turkey.
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meet people with diffen
beliefs and backgroundsaml|
discuss different ideas
fully,” Durma said.
Patricia Jasse, a seniorco;
puter engineering major fra | &M junior Brj
Angola, attended the dialop | ouston State t
because a Turkish friend M
ed her.
“I thought it would be
to convert other people to Tub |
Islam,” Jasse said. “But this
more about how to keep ira
peace and non-violence
when you don't agree.”
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Edwards joins Republicans
to expand nuclear controls
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NEWS IN BRIEF
'Girls Gone
creator arrested
By Suzanne Gamboa
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Department of Energy’s program
securing nuclear materials in the
former Soviet Union and in other
WASHINGTON — The
nation needs to bolster, broaden
and speed up its nuclear prolifer
ation prevention program in
Russia and other countries to
keep nuclear materials out of the
hands of terrorists, Rep. Chet
Edwards said Thursday.
Although the United States
spends l percent of its national
defense budget on preventing
nuclear proliferation, Edwards
said there is enough nuclear
material in Russia to build 41,000
nuclear bombs.
“Homeland security begins
by preventing terrorists overseas
from getting their hands on dead
ly weapons that could be used
against our citizens,” Edwards
said. “But we have only
scratched the surface in doing
what is necessary to protect our
selves from nuclear terrorism,”
Edwards, a Waco Democrat,
has teamed with Rep. Curt
Weldon, R-Pa., to expand the
countries.
It would provide another $331
million over two years and take a
number of steps to further secure
nuclear materials. The money
also would be used to secure
chemical and biological materials
and weapons.
The budget for the program is
about $l billion. President Bush
has requested $1.3 billion for the
program in 2004. The Edwards-
Weldon proposal would raise that
amount to about $1.6 billion.
Weldon said the legislation is
meant to control materials that
are available to terrorists not from
Russian government officials, but
former members of its military
and other individuals who “can
feed their families” by selling off
technology and materials that
were built up during the Cold
War.
“To me from the standpoint of
homeland security, we could do
nothing more important than
this,” Weldon said.
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partying.
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drug trafficking and racketeeri:
related to prostitution. He cot
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charges, but has not yetenten
a plea.
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