2008 Woodie Awards
With over 400,000 dead, 2.5 million displaced and 10,000 dying every month since 2003, students are raising awareness and taking action to help the people of Darfur, Sudan. The lives of people in the western Sudan region of Darfur, have been claimed by the continuous genocide.
The Washington Post released an alarming warning about the condition of the nation's leading veteran's hospital, the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Struggling to handle the overflow of injured soldiers has caused the conditions and care to deteriorate and the soldiers to face extreme neglect.
Dining Services will now offer fair trade coffee on a daily basis in Jazzman's Café. The demand for new Fair Trade Organic flavor has increased 2000 percent in the past two months on campus, prompting the daily addition of the coffee. "It's good that we can make this little change that can benefit a lot of people," Chris Cantwell, a freshman history major, said.
Everyday Iraq is the dominant news story, from morning to evening. Iraq, may be the focus, but let's remember that the rest of the world has not stopped. Buried deep into the pages of the newspaper and not even shown on the evening news, is the devastating genocide of Darfur, Sudan, which has taken the lives of over 400,000 innocent people for the last three years.
The Click Campaign, sponsored by the finance club and international finance class, works to reduce global poverty. By logging on to www. PovertyFighters.com, students and faculty can click on the donate button up to twice per day. With every click, money will be donated to finance microlending loans.
The use of debit cards has prompted banks across the nation to make high-cost overdraft loans even more costly. A report, "Debit Card Danger," was released by the Center for Responsible Lending and analyzed the checking accounts of over 5,000 customers of some of the largest banks in the nation.
A nationwide survey of 1,144 doctors found that 14 percent of physicans feel they are not required to tell patients about medical options they oppose morally. These options include abortion and teen birth control. 29 percent believe they have no duty to refer patients elsewhere for treatment.