Alaska students go to war
p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- University of Alaska journalism students are off to war.
For real.
Three undergraduate students and a professor leave this week for Diyala Province in Iraq where they’ll spend nearly a month embedded with US troops, says the Chronicle of Higher Education, going on:
“They plan to eat, sleep, and travel alongside members of an Alaska-based Army Stryker Brigade Combat Team, while filing daily articles for news organizations and for their student newspaper, The Sun Star.”
This won’ t be the first occasion university journalism students have spent time with the 25th Infantry Division’s 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, known as the Arctic Wolves.
They’ ve been with them on training exercises and last spring university president Mark R. Hamilton, a 31-year Army veteran who retired in 1998 as a major general, “approached several student journalists about sending students on a real-life mission to Iraq,” says the story, going on:
“The students went to Mr. O’Donoghue with the idea. ‘I didn’t imagine it would ever happen,’ he said. But after discussing it with Army officers, who he said were receptive and helpful, Mr. O’Donoghue brought the president a proposal to send himself and three students to the war-ravaged country, at a cost of $35,000.”
Each student signed a liability form that, “outlines the potential risk of death, kidnapping, and injury,” says the Chronicle, adding:
” Mr. O’Donoghue said university lawyers insisted that the students read news stories about journalists killed in Iraq, including an article about Daniel Pearl, The Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan by members of Al Qaeda.”
And No, they won’t be taking Sarah Palin with them.
Chronicle of Higher Education – U. of Alaska Journalism Students to Embed With Combat Team in Iraq, July 27, 2009
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July 29th, 2009 at 12:00 am
What the fuck does this have to do with p2p?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
July 29th, 2009 at 2:32 am
Actually quite a lot.
If P2P is the rallying cry for ACTA based incursion into coutries that are not TRIP signatories, then I would suggest that we need to watch the introductio of young people into War as a possible pre-cursor to the draft being re-initialised in the USA and other simpatico countries.
The Israeli incursion into Iran had to be financed by someone. (Ummm, who could that be?) That someone just needs a good excuse to jump in. It will also need a shitload of new troops. What better way to raise the “Good” of soldiering then by having a bunch of college kids “chaperoned” (read edited) by their 35 year ex military school master writing about it in their school newspaper which will doubtlessly be syndicated nation wide five minutes later.
July 29th, 2009 at 4:09 am
“What the fuck does this have to do with p2p?”
Are you really saying that you can’t see the connection? Wow.