2006 Vol.75, No.12 Xavierite

              TheXavierite
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Volume 75, Number 12
Inside this issue
New!
Features
Hey, wasn't this
section here last
year? Yes. But,
this year it is real,
with a real Editor.
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Editorials
What? Another
new Editorials
Editor? Where did
the last one go?
Who is this Will?
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Entertainment
Hey, when did the
guy who plays House
become British? And
other Golden Globe
coverage.
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Sports
Men's Basketball
team on fire!
Beat the UIC
Flames 74-73.
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New dorm breaks ground
Photos: The Xavierite
Above: Two pictures of the current status of the new dorm.
Full story on new dorm in next week's issue of The Xavierite.
Senator Clinton addresses ADI Summit
By Nick Kerr
Deputy News Editor
On December 3d, 2005 the American
Democracy Institute (ADI) held their
2005 Midwest regional summit in the
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University
in Chicago. The event featured many
speakers including Governor Blagojevich
and the keynote speaker for the event,
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The President of Roosevelt University
Chuck Middleton started the event off
by welcoming those in attendance to his
University. John Hart, the CEO and
President of the American Democracy
Institute, gave the audience a synopsis of
the group's goals. Governor Blagojevich
took the stage and talked about his
ascension from a child growing up in a
working class neighborhood to being the
Governor of Illinois. He also expressed
disappointment with the state Supreme
Court who, just the day before struck down
a law he was advocating that would make it
illegal to sell violent videogames to minors.
He made it clear he would continue his
efforts to get the law on the books. The
next speaker was the President of People's
and North Shore Gas Desiree Rogers
who spoke about how the companies she
heads helps underprivileged families. The
final speaker before Senator Clinton was
William McNary. He took the occasion to
talk about what civil rights issues needed
to be addressed by today's leaders.
The honor of introducing the New
York Senator, who is the honorary chair
of ADI's National Youth Incentive, was
given to Roosevelt University student
Bridget Jones. Mrs. Clinton came out to
some national news and was the lead
story on the popular Fox News Channel
show "The O'Reilly Factor" the following
Monday. Before getting into the policy
aspects of her remarks, she took time out
to thank those in attendance who were in
some way were participating in the political
process and her own activities as a teenager
a warm reception, but was interrupted a
few times at the beginning of her speech
by protestors critical of her views on the
Iraq War. Senator Clinton was politely
stern with the protestors when she told
them "Give me a chance and I'll address
that if you'll then be quiet." This made
growing up in the northern suburb of Park
Ridge. Senator Clinton started talking
about current events issues by speaking out
against the genocide going in the Darfur
region of Sudan. She wants the UN and
other international organizations to play a
bigger role in peacekeeping efforts in the
region. She also spoke a little bit about
education and healthcare, then finished
her remarks by talking about Iraq. She
stated her position as "I disagree with
those who believe we should immediately
pull out and I disagree with those who
say we should stay there forever." She
cited the Iraqi elections that were held on
December 15th. Those elections were for
a new parliament and the election went
off without any major terrorist activity and
increased participation among the Sunnis
who, because of boycotts by many in the
ethnic group, were underrepresented in
the last parliament.
After the speeches, there was a brief
news conference given by Mr. Hart and
ADI advisors Jessica Lee and Alexis McGill
to members of student media organizations
that covered the event. The American
Democracy Institute is a "progressive"
think tank whose main goal is to get young
people involved in politics. A think tank is
a organization that formulates policies and
strategies to enact their goals. ADI will
have a similar meeting in Philadelphia on
February 6th, 2006 where Senator Clinton
will again be the keynote speaker. For more
information on Senator Clinton you can
visit http://clinton.senate.gov and for more
information on ADI you can go to http://
www.americandemocracyinstitute.org.
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