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Vol XXXIV No. 34

Friday, October 6, 2000

Pax Christi hits campus to promote military spending cut

      A young woman dressed as a clean-shaven Uncle Sam looks up at a 27-foot inflatable bar graph representing United States defense spending. And while Uncle Sam boasts about American military superiority, her counterpart, Shawna Farabaugh, describes our nation's less impressive rankings in categories like infant mortality and education. This was the scene Thursday afternoon in O'Shaughnessy's Great Hall, where Pax Christi held a demonstration calling for those positions to be brought ... [more]
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