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The War on Campus
December 3, 2001 Issue
Will academic freedom survive?
By David Glenn
"They're using state resources to the practical effect of aiding and abetting the Taliban"–and they should be fired.
This article is part of the Haywood Burns Community Activist Journalism series, sponsored by the New World Foundation and the Nation Institute.
Thus proclaimed Scott Rubush, an associate editor of David Horowitz's FrontPage magazine, on National Public Radio in early October. The objects of Rubush's wrath are four left-wing faculty members at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina, who criticized US foreign policy at a teach-in shortly after the September 11 attacks. FrontPage has launched a campaign–"Tell the good folks at UNC-Chapel Hill what you think of their decision to allow anti-American rallies on their state-supported campus"–apparently aimed at pressuring UNC's administrators and trustees to sharpen their knives.
The FrontPage campaign has kicked up some dust–the UNC administration has received several hundred angry e-mails and has been excoriated on the floor of the North Carolina legislature. But no actual damage has been done. Chancellor James Moeser has issued strong statements in defense of his faculty's right to free speech. Throughout the country, academic freedom is far more secure today than during, say, World War I, when several schools terminated professors who, in the immortal words of Columbia University president Nicholas Murray Butler, were "not with whole heart and mind and strength committed to fight with us to make the world safe for democracy."
Yet there are still genuine causes for worry about academic freedom as we move into a new, perhaps long-term, period of war. For one thing, not all administrations have been as resolute as UNC's: Several college teachers and staff workers across the country now face disciplinary action in various post-September 11 imbroglios. Outside the campus, leftist professors have faced high-pitched media demagoguery. And it's not clear that faculty will manage to respond to such challenges with anything like a unified voice. After two decades of passionate battles over the canon, hate speech and nonfoundationalist theories of truth, American academics may no longer share a broad understanding of what, exactly, academic freedom means.
One person who knows exactly what he believes a university should be–but isn't hopeful that many actually existing teachers will fight for his vision–is Richard Berthold, a University of New Mexico history professor who now faces a potential semester of unpaid suspension for making a callous joke on September 11. As his class on ancient Rome filed in that morning, Berthold quipped that "anyone who can blow up the Pentagon gets my vote."
"It was a stupid thing to say," Berthold declares. "I deserve a lot of the shit that's been dumped on me. However, the First Amendment should protect even jackasses." Berthold is no leftist. "A lot of the hate mail I've been getting says, 'You commie!' which is ironic, given that I'm pretty conservative on most domestic issues." He is, however, critical of US foreign policy, which is part of what was floating in his mind when he made his unfortunate joke. (Berthold once actively participated in the conservative National Association of Scholars. "But I never quite fit in there," he says. "I'm a longhair, and I would always wear a Palestinian scarf to their meetings.")
The firestorm around Berthold burned fiercely–on talk radio and in the New Mexico legislature–for several weeks. As in North Carolina, much of this criticism leaned on the trope of "state support": Do we good citizens really want our tax dollars to pay for sedition? In Berthold's mind, this question (from which private universities are relatively immune) reflects a profound misunderstanding of the university's mission. "There's tremendous pressure from the business community that UNM should simply be filling jobs," says Berthold. "Well, if you want that, then you've bought yourself a vocational school. It's not a university. A real university is about knowledge and inquiry." But if Berthold dislikes the business lobby's role in shaping the university ("It seems like you have to own a car dealership to join the legislature here"), he holds an equally low opinion of certain of his left-wing faculty colleagues and their enthusiasm for speech codes. After all, the university's charges against him include the claim that he engages in "insulting language." "Now the American campus seems to be on the cutting edge of intolerance," says Berthold. "And all in the name of social justice."
This same line of argument has been taken up by several conservative essayists, notably National Review's Stanley Kurtz, in the weeks after September 11. It's too bad that professors like Berthold have been disciplined or intimidated, they say–but didn't the academic left set the stage for this kind of thing by promoting misguided and repressive antiharassment policies?
"I don't accept that notion at all," says Barbara Bowen, the president of the Professional Staff Congress, the faculty union of the City University of New York. "I don't accept that the left has created a climate of intolerance by vigorously denouncing racist speech. Racism is something that should be denounced each and every time it's encountered." Bowen's union has been the object of intense criticism in the wake of an early October teach-in at which leftist CUNY professors discussed US foreign policy. ("Once-Proud Campus Now a Breeding Ground for Idiots," ran one headline in the New York Post, whose editors declared that they were rethinking their support for increased CUNY funding because of the teach-in.) In fact, says Bowen, the controversy over the CUNY teach-in has been heavily conditioned by racial and class injustice. "NYU, Columbia, Princeton–every other school in the area has had similar teach-ins, and there hasn't been this vitriolic criticism. Our students are working class, immigrants, people of color, and there's this idea out there that they have less right than elite students to be exposed to a wide range of opinions."
Bowen is surely right to say that "vigorously denouncing racism"–and interrogating its role in education policy–is an important responsibility. But it's hard to escape the suspicion that Stanley Kurtz is on to something. The last generation's wave of campus speech codes and antiharassment policies may have done more to suppress freedom than to remedy injustice in any meaningful way–and it may be only now, after September 11, that the full costs will become apparent.
Consider the case of Jonnie Hargis, a library assistant at UCLA. On September 12 one of Hargis's colleagues sent around a gooey e-mail sermon titled "America: The Good Neighbor." Hargis replied with a message of his own: "This is all well and good but avoids the fact that U.S. taxpayers fund and arm an apartheid state called Israel…the U.S. is still bombing Iraq…so, who are the 'terrorists' anyway?"
Two days later, UCLA suspended Hargis for one week without pay. The charge? Not that Hargis was seditious; nor that he had violated the alleged political neutrality of the university. Those were the rationales for repression in bygone years. Instead, Hargis was charged with "contribut[ing] to a hostile and threatening environment" for his colleagues who have "ethnic, religious, and family ties to Israel." Hargis's e-mail hadn't mentioned any of his library colleagues; it simply spelled out his hard-left views of US foreign policy. It's not hard to imagine the many crucial arguments that might be suppressed with the use of UCLA's logic. Could secular feminist speakers be accused of creating a "hostile environment" for traditionalist Muslims? Could antiwar faculty be accused of creating a "hostile environment" for ROTC members on campus? (Actually, this last argument has been wheeled out this season by conservatives.)
"The original patriotic e-mail didn't offend me," says Hargis. "I just took it as an invitation to discuss. And then two days later I walk in and I'm suspended." As was the case at UNC, this story has a decent ending: Through his union, the Coalition of University Employees, Hargis has successfully pursued a grievance. He will be repaid for his lost income, the incident will be stricken from his job record and the university has been forced to issue a clarification of its e-mail policies. But it's hard to imagine that the incident has not had at least a small chilling effect on campus dialogue.
Not all cases of alleged harassment are so prima facie absurd, of course. Forty miles to the south of UCLA, Orange Coast College political science professor Ken Hearlson has been suspended with pay following a heated mid-September exchange with four Muslim students in one of his classes. The students claim that Hearlson is biased against Muslims, that he accused them personally of supporting terrorism and that he inspired a jingoistic rage among other students in the class. Hearlson denies these charges, saying that he merely intended to stimulate a discussion about whether there is a double standard at work among Middle Eastern governments that have denounced the World Trade Center attacks but praise Hamas suicide bombings in Israel.
The Hearlson case, like Richard Berthold's, is squarely about in-class behavior, not about professors' freelance expression of opinion at teach-ins or on Op-Ed pages. This is a crucial distinction for Stanley Fish, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the author of There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing, Too. Fish takes a strictly unsentimental approach to academic freedom: "It's a guild arrangement," he says. "It's designed to allow professors to teach without interference from ecclesiastical or political authorities. I try not to attach to academic freedom any big-think notions like Truth or Independence. It's a trade-off: The outside world leaves us alone, and in exchange we police ourselves, and behave responsibly in the classroom." Fish is unsympathetic to Berthold's insistence that his Pentagon joke is obviously and automatically exempt from university scrutiny. Suppose he'd quipped that "anyone who bombs a mosque gets my vote"–couldn't the university legitimately censure him for that? So, too, with Ken Hearlson's case. If the charges against him are true–if he indeed crossed the line and personally harassed students on account of their ethnicity or religion–doesn't the school have a clear responsibility to squelch such behavior?
As a basic proposition, Fish's claim is reasonable. But the catch is that it's far from certain that colleges in cases like Hearlson's will always make a good-faith effort to sort out the facts. The track record of campus antiharassment policies is not encouraging–they tend to define "harassment" extremely vaguely and to offer weak due-process protections at best. Hearlson was sent home the day the accusations were raised against him, before any investigation at all. "The college completely bypassed the faculty union's contract, and also bypassed the formal procedure for student grievances, all on the grounds of the September 11 emergency," says Carol Burke, president of the academic senate at OCC. The case has been turned over to an attorney with the Orange County Department of Education, who is interviewing student witnesses. An audiotape of the class, meanwhile, supports Hearlson's account of events, according to Burke. "There are thirty-five new adjuncts and faculty members here, and this has just terrified them–'You mean we can be taken out of the classroom just like that?'" Burke continues: "Of course serious claims of harassment should be investigated. But the college can't just short-circuit the contractual fair-hearing process. Meanwhile, this guy has been kept out of the classroom for eight weeks."
So a great number of questions–about speech codes, due process and faculty independence–obviously remain to be sorted out within academia. But to focus just on these matters is to miss the more immediate dangers from outside the campus: the rise of media demagoguery and the specter of populist violence, "the return of good old American anti-intellectualism," as Fish puts it. A drunken man entered Berthold's house and attempted to assault him, while several antiwar faculty members have received death threats, including Catherine Lutz, an anthropology professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and one of the objects of FrontPage's ire. Berthold says, "These two talk-radio hosts in Albuquerque play this game where they teeter right on the edge of telling their listeners to, you know, come get me. And it's ironic, because they're stretching the limits of the First Amendment themselves."
Outside the heavy-breathing precincts of talk-radio, some button-down conservatives are attempting to stigmatize even the most innocuous discussions of world affairs. On November 13 the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a conservative watchdog group founded by Lynne Cheney, issued a report titled "Defending Civilization: How Our Universities are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It." It lists 117 comments made by faculty and students in the wake of September 11, some of which are simple statements of fact. (Number 68, in its entirety: "Todd Gitlin, professor of communications at NYU: 'There is a lot of skepticism about the administration's policy of going to war.'") ACTA vice president and general counsel Anne Neal insists her organization does not call for censorship, but the report leans heavily on the rhetoric of "unity": "Academe is the only sector of American society that is distinctly divided in its response [to the terror attacks]."
The academy is indeed divided, and should be proud of it. But even as self-styled free-speech defenders like Horowitz and FrontPage are exposing their true colors, we should beware of similar hypocrisies from our own quarter. "It would be a sad day when the state decides what can and cannot be said on a campus," says Thor Halvorssen, executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which has defended Berthold and Hearlson. "We're very happy that [UNC Chancellor] Moeser has stood up in defense of his faculty–but will he be just as tough when there's some nonsense from the other side of the spectrum, if people in Chapel Hill try to shout down Ward Connerly or ban a homosexuality-is-a-disease speaker? We'll be watching carefully. The public has got to be assured that campuses are not full of crazy double standards."
David GlennDavid Glenn is on the editorial board of Dissent.
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An appetite for change: the power of 1 Million Women
Conservationist, activist and founder of 1 Million Women, Natalie Isaacs is proof that a single person can change the world. The former cosmetics manufacturer who started a global movement of women and girls after reducing her own electricity bill shared her story with Sunshine Coast changemakers at the second annual Spring into Sustainability lunch recently.
The afternoon was a degustation of sorts as Natalie, along with local sustainability champions Kelly Lavery from Strucket, Feda Adra from Comlink and other incredible in our community shared their innovative solutions to the challenges of our time.
After embarking on a journey from apathy to climate action, Natalie recognised her power as an individual and 1 Million Women has now empowered more than 940,000 people to act on climate change.
"I thought climate change was someone else's issue. In the cosmetics industry, life was about overpackaging and being competitive. My thinking was that as one person I couldn't do much," Natalie said.
"What changed my life forever was getting our household electricity consumption down by 20%. When I saw the bill, and saw I had saved a heap of money and pollution, I realised I was actually really powerful."
That achievement set off a chain reaction. Natalie moved onto waste, cutting food waste in her household by 70% and then stopped overconsuming, changes which completely transformed her lifestyle. She started to consider the potential impact of hundreds, thousands, even one million people taking the same actions.
Starting a movement
With women making up to 85 percent of consumer decisions that affect household carbon footprint, Natalie could see the enormous potential for change if more women took action and became involved with climate change in a policy context. She turned her back on the cosmetics industry and started a movement, launching 1 Million Women in 2006.
Now one of Australia's largest networks acting on climate change, 1 Million Women supports and encourages people to change their lives by reducing "the stuff we buy, the food we consume, the energy that powers our homes and vehicles, and the waste and pollution we're responsible for everyday".
Natalie's message is one of hope, positivity and empowerment, aiming to engage as many people as possible to participate in the conversation and take action. Her book Every Woman's Guide to Saving the Planet is full of bite-sized chunks of achievable actions - there's a checklist for cutting energy use, toolkits for planet-friendly bathrooms and kitchens, tips for cutting food waste and advice on how to make better choices when it comes to the clothes we wear.
1 Million Women has recently launched an app (available for Apple and Android) to make it easier to identify and commit to actions as well as view the collective impact of our actions in real time. If you're keen to embrace a low-carbon life and don't know where to start, the website and app are an ideal place to start.
Creative solutions from local changemakers
Here on the Sunshine Coast, the appetite for change is growing with an increasing number of women in our community acknowledging the issues and developing creative solutions. Our local changemakers are courageous and working collaboratively to transform our high consumption society.
ComLink CEO and Sunshine Coast Feda Adra is an award-winning leader, highly regarded for her innovative, progressive approach to aged and community care. Feda is constantly challenging the notion of 'business as usual', finding new ways to approach business that reduce ComLink's environmental impact and contribute positively to the health and wellbeing of staff and customers.
Kelly Lavery's search for a way to hygienically soak baby items has taken her from frustrated mum to award-winning innovator. Kelly's Strucket is an ingenious strainer bucket that lets you soak, separate and drain without having to touch the residual dirty water. It's a must-have for people who choose to reuse, ideal for dry pailing modern cloth nappies and soaking baby wipes, bibs, soiled clothing, reusable menstrual products - the uses are endless! To find out more, check out Strucket: the innovative household product that helps you reuse
Ten Little Pieces was founded by Alison Foley to advocate solutions for plastic pollution through school-based programs. Alison is one of 300 women selected for the eXXpedition around the world sailing mission research and raising awareness of the health impacts of plastics and toxins in our oceans.
Mum of two, Ellie Degraeve was shocked when she discovered the harmful ingredients in many mainstream skincare products. Go For Zero sources and sells Australian made toxin-free, low-waste skincare and everyday products from an online store and local retail stores.
After making the transition from maximalist to minimalista, Carly Willoughby-Rolls specialises in helping us create less complicated lives, supporting modern women to ditch busy, clutter and overwhelm so they live a life of ease and contentment.
ECOllaboration CEO Cerran Fawns said the organisation has teamed up with TerraCycle to offer a local collection point for difficult to recycle materials. Items such as pens, cosmetic packaging, toothpaste tubes, plastic stationery, contact lenses and soft plastics can be dropped off at their Nambour office for recycling.
Recognising the huge reduction in her household waste when she embraced bokashi, Jodie Berndt turned it into a business and is now sharing all things bokashi through Bokashi Ninja.
Teaching gardening to kids was an epiphany moment for Robyn Cook, who began volunteering in the permaculture kitchen garden at Chevallum State School in 2003. Through The Kitchen Garden Teacher Robyn sees first-hand how teaching children to grow and cook their own food can have a flow-on effect in their families.
Rebecca Colefax is GM of Earth Tech, a startup social enterprise supporting people to make the discoveries, create the technologies and build the companies we need to save the planet and our future.
Other changemakers acknowledged for their innovative initiatives are Helen Andrews from Spare Harvest, a community which enables you to share, swap or sell surplus or spare product or supplies (check out Living Smart's story Reduce Waste with Spare Harvest) and Sallie Francis from Feel Good Food Boxes, offering seasonal organic product direct from farm to your door while also making good food accessible for low income earners.
You are powerful
Natalie Isaacs believes that whatever we do in our lives and careers, it is our individual and collective responsibility to live with the least impact on the planet. Taking action can be as easy as making one simple swap.
"Just do one thing like cut your power usage and see the result. I guarantee that will lead to another action. It will take you along the road of empowerment, build your voice and build confidence," said Natalie.
"One person can shift the system. Because if one person has millions of other people alongside her or him, systems actually do shift. All of that starts with each and every one of us. Never underestimate how powerful you are."
Take the 1 Million Women challenge at 1millionwomen.com.au or download the new app on the Apple Store or Google Play.
Get your copy of Natalie's book from the 1 Million Women shop.


The Bush Administration's proposed fiscal year 2009 budget calls for $295 million for Great Lakes programs, a reduction of $56 million, or 16%, from current enacted levels.
Section 1. Policy. The Great Lakes are a national treasure constituting the largest freshwater system in the world.


Nice, Côte d'Azur, France Pictures.
Paris, France, masses of world famous tourist attractions in a compact, walkable area.
Carcassonne, south France, a massive and truly Disneyesque castled village a bit off the beaten vacation track.
Antibes, Cote d'Azur, delightful old town, port and sandy beaches. Also known as Angletibes due to the number of Brits living there.
Nice, Cote d'Azur, one of our favourite French cities, big, lively, interesting, fantastic promenade but stony beaches.
French beaches, a huge range of photos and information from the Atlantic coast to the Côte d'Azur and Corsica island.
Aix-en-Provence, pretty and entertaining though not exactly our cup-of-tea! Decide for yourself from our images.
Avignon, Provence, now that's more like it! A fantastic walled city with amazing palace, bridge and history.
Arles, Provence, small, quiet but loaded with history and imbued with art.
St Tropez, Cote d'Azur, we're not fans of this elitist town or the traffic tourists need to plow through to get there. And we have the photos to prove it!
Cannes, Cote d'Azur, too much hype but good beaches, great restaurants and staggering firework displays.
Menton, Cote d'Azur, tiny, tranquil and at the Italian end of the French Riviera, Menton offers pretty, shingly beaches and quiet nights. And that's how they like it.
Biarritz, Atlantic coast way down south, this is surf city France and buzzing core of French Basqueness and terrific seafood.
St Jean de Luz, Atlantic coast, a secret delight, serene and beautiful seaside town on the Spanish border, near Biarritz, with fantastic beaches.
Arcachon, north Atlantic coast, a small seaside town that only springs into life in the summer but adjoins the most awesome dune in France.
Verdon Gorge, south France, near the Côte d'Azur, a mini Grand Canyon with fantastic precipitous drives, hikes and excellent river activities.
Pont du Gard, south France near Avignon, this attraction is a staggering Roman aqueduct with lovely walks and bike trails fanning out into verdant countryside.
Nimes, south France, worth a look for tourists passing by by don't make a huge effort.
Annecy, northeast France, near Geneva and the Alps, this lakeside city has a gorgeous old town and brilliant lake shore walks, beaches, bike tracks and gliding.
Saint-Paul de Vence, Cote d'Azur, another popular, cute walled town near Nice, much favoured by celebrities.
Grasse, Cote d'Azur, fans of perfume may enjoy the free tours of historic perfumeries but we think the town is an overcrowded, uninteresting, traffic-heavy dump.
Eze village, Cote d'Azur, it's not a real living village but this medieval village hanging over the French Riviera is sensational and a tourist-must-see.
Corsica island in the Mediterranean, we love the place, a couple of hours by car ferry from Nice. Brilliant beaches, hikes and rock formations.
Marseille, the biggest port on the Mediterranean, is a surprise: sights, culture, old town, beaches and easy walking. No gangsters visible!
French tourism is the number one European holiday target, competing with Britain for English-speaking travellers but winning the tourism war generally with its array of monster attractions – gloriously romantic Paris, warm and relaxed Côte d'Azur towns and beaches, the chateaux studded Loire Valley, endless little fortified villages, fine skiing, mad paragliding or spectacular hiking in the mighty French Alps, surfing on the Atlantic coast, burning on the beaches, lazily slurping fine wine and enjoying excellent cuisine at good prices everywhere, these are some of the ways to learn about France's joie de vivre.
Style, culture, architecture, food, wine and fashion all exist in multiple layers of excellence in France, with Paris in particular capturing the imagination but the rest of the country has masses of spectacular offerings too, from the Loire Valley region down to the Côte d'Azur towns and beaches.
This is the largest country in Europe and has an incredible diversity of landscapes offering a vast variety of holidays in gorgeous villages, world-famous resorts, soft warm beaches or spectacular romantic escapes.
March – early October for sightseeing; June – September for beaches tho' July and August are overheated/overcrowded on the Côte d'Azur; January-March for winter sports.
Beware July and August when the country is packed with foreign and local tourists. Avoid driving on the weekend at the beginning of August, it's hell on wheels, bumper-to-bumper even on autoroutes. Some services in Paris – even museums and restaurants – are closed.
Atlantic beaches are warm and useable though the waters never warm up to Mediterranean standards.
November-February can be bitterly cold in mountain areas and in the north including Paris, though the Cote d'Azur may well see blue skies and daytime T-shirt weather, but. . . rain is equally likely in winter.


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Chitwan National Park is the first national park of Nepal. It was established in 1973 as the Royal Chitwan National Park and was granted the status of a World Heritage Site in 1984. It covers an area of  and it is located in the subtropical Inner Terai lowlands of south-central Nepal in the districts of Nawalpur, Parasi, Chitwan and Makwanpur. In altitude it ranges from about  in the river valleys to  in the Sivalik Hills.

In the north and west of the protected area the Narayani-Rapti river system forms a natural boundary to human settlements. Adjacent to the east of Chitwan National Park is Parsa National Park, contiguous in the south is the Indian Tiger Reserve Valmiki National Park. The coherent protected area of  represents the Tiger Conservation Unit (TCU) Chitwan-Parsa-Valmiki, which covers a  huge block of alluvial grasslands and subtropical moist deciduous forests.

History
Since the end of the 19th century Chitwan – Heart of the Jungle – used to be a favorite hunting ground for Nepal's ruling class during the cool winter seasons. Until the 1950s, the journey from Kathmandu to Nepal's south was arduous as the area could only be reached by foot and took several weeks. Comfortable camps were set up for the feudal big game hunters and their entourage, where they stayed for a couple of months shooting hundreds of tigers, rhinoceroses, elephant, leopards and sloth bears.

In 1950, Chitwan's forest and grasslands extended over more than  and was home to about 800 rhinos. When poor farmers from the mid-hills moved to the Chitwan Valley in search of arable land, the area was subsequently opened for settlement, and poaching of wildlife became rampant. In 1957, the country's first conservation law inured to the protection of rhinos and their habitat. In 1959, Edward Pritchard Gee undertook a survey of the area, recommended creation of a protected area north of the Rapti River and of a wildlife sanctuary south of the river for a trial period of ten years. After his subsequent survey of Chitwan in 1963, this time for both the Fauna Preservation Society and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, he recommended extension of the sanctuary to the south.

By the end of the 1960s, 70% of Chitwan's jungles had been cleared, malaria eradicated using DDT, thousands of people had settled there, and only 95 rhinos remained. The dramatic decline of the rhino population and the extent of poaching prompted the government to institute the Gaida Gasti – a rhino reconnaissance patrol of 130 armed men and a network of guard posts all over Chitwan. To prevent the extinction of rhinos the Chitwan National Park was gazetted in December 1970, with borders delineated the following year and established in 1973, initially encompassing an area of .

When the first protected areas were established in Chitwan, Tharu communities were forced to relocate from their traditional lands. They were denied any right to own land and thus forced into a situation of landlessness and poverty. When the national park was designated, Nepalese soldiers destroyed the villages located inside the boundary of the park, burning down houses and trampling fields using elephants. The Tharu people were forced to leave at gun point.

In 1977, the park was enlarged to its present area of . In 1997, a bufferzone of  was added to the north and west of the Narayani-Rapti river system, and between the south-eastern boundary of the park and the international border to India.

The park's headquarters is in Kasara. Close by the gharial and turtle conservation breeding centres have been established. In 2008, a vulture breeding centre was inaugurated aiming at holding up to 25 pairs of each of the two Gyps vultures species now critically endangered in Nepal - the Oriental white-backed vulture and the slender-billed vulture.

Climate
Chitwan has a humid subtropical monsoon influenced climate (Cwa) with high humidity all through the year. The area is located in the central climatic zone of the Himalayas, where monsoon starts in mid June and eases off in late September. During these 14–15 weeks most of the  annual precipitation falls. After mid-October, the monsoon clouds retreat, humidity drops off, and the top daily temperature gradually subsides from around  to . Nights cool down to  until late December, when it usually rains softly for a few days. Then temperatures start rising gradually.

Vegetation

The typical vegetation of the Inner Terai is Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests with predominantly sal trees covering about 70% of the national park area. The purest stands of sal occur on well drained lowland ground in the centre. Along the southern face of the Churia Hills sal is interspersed with chir pine (Pinus roxburghii). On northern slopes sal associates with smaller flowering tree and shrub species such as beleric (Terminalia bellirica), rosewood (Dalbergia sissoo), axlewood (Anogeissus latifolia), elephant apple (Dillenia indica), grey downy balsam (Garuga pinnata) and creepers such as Bauhinia vahlii and Spatholobus parviflorus.

Seasonal bushfires, flooding and erosion evoke an ever-changing mosaic of riverine forest and grasslands along the river banks. On recently deposited alluvium and in lowland areas groups of catechu (Acacia catechu) with rosewood (Dalbergia sissoo) predominate, followed by groups of kapok (Bombax ceiba) with rhino apple trees (Trewia nudiflora), the fruits of which rhinos savour so much. Understorey shrubs of velvety beautyberry (Callicarpa macrophylla), hill glory bower (Clerodendrum sp.) and gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica) offer shelter and lair to a wide variety of species.

Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands cover about 20% of the park's area. More than 50 species are found here including some of the world's tallest grasses like the elephant grass called Saccharum ravennae, giant cane (Arundo donax), khagra reed (Phragmites karka) and several species of true grasses. Kans grass (Saccharum spontaneum) is one of the first grasses to colonise new sandbanks and to be washed away by the yearly monsoon floods.

Fauna

The wide range of vegetation types in the Chitwan National Park is haunt of more than 700 species of wildlife and a not yet fully surveyed number of butterfly, moth and insect species. Apart from king cobra and rock python, 17 other species of snakes, starred tortoise and monitor lizards occur. The Narayani-Rapti river system, their small tributaries and myriads of oxbow lakes is habitat for 113 recorded species of fish and mugger crocodiles. In the early 1950s, about 235 gharials occurred in the Narayani River. The population has dramatically declined to only 38 wild gharials in 2003. Every year gharial eggs are collected along the rivers to be hatched in the breeding center of the Gharial Conservation Project, where animals are reared to an age of 6–9 years. Every year young gharials are reintroduced into the Narayani-Rapti river system, of which sadly only very few survive.

Mammals

Chitwan National Park is home to 68 mammal species. The "king of the jungle" is the Bengal tiger. The alluvial floodplain habitat of the Terai is one of the best tiger habitats anywhere in the world. Since the establishment of Chitwan National Park the initially small population of about 25 individuals increased to 70–110 in 1980. In some years this population has declined due to poaching and floods. In a long-term study carried out from 1995 to 2002 tiger researchers identified a relative abundance of 82 breeding tigers and a density of 6 females per . Information obtained from camera traps in 2010 and 2011 indicated that tiger density ranged between 4.44 and 6.35 individuals per . They offset their temporal activity patterns to be much less active during the day when human activity peaked.

Indian leopards are most prevalent on the peripheries of the park. They co-exist with tigers, but being socially subordinate are not common in prime tiger habitat. In 1988, a clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) was captured and radio-collared outside the protected area. It was released into the park, but did not stay there.

Chitwan is considered to have the highest population density of sloth bears with an estimated 200 to 250 individuals. Smooth-coated otters inhabit the numerous creeks and rivulets. Bengal foxes, spotted linsangs and ratels roam the jungle for prey. Striped hyenas prevail on the southern slopes of the Churia Hills. During a camera trapping survey in 2011, wild dogs were recorded in the southern and western parts of the park, as well as Indian jackals, fishing cats, reed cats, leopard cats, crab-eating mongooses, yellow-throated martens, large, small Indian and Asian palm civets.

Indian rhinoceros: since 1973 the population has recovered well and increased to 544 animals around the turn of the century. To ensure the survival of the endangered species in case of epidemics animals are translocated annually from Chitwan to the Bardia National Park and the Shuklaphanta National Park since 1986. However, the population has repeatedly been jeopardized by poaching: in 2002 alone, poachers killed 37 individuals in order to saw off and sell their valuable horns. Chitwan has the largest population of Indian rhinoceros in Nepal, estimated at 605 of 645 individuals in total in the country as of 2015. Gaurs spend most of the year in the less accessible Churia Hills in the south of the national park. But when the bush fires ease off in springtime and lush grasses start growing up again, they descend into the grassland and riverine forests to graze and browse. The Chitwan population of the world's largest wild cattle species has increased from 188 to 368 animals in the years 1997 to 2016. Furthermore, 112 animals were counted in the adjacent Parsa Wildlife Reserve. The animals move freely between these parks. Apart from numerous wild boars, there are also herds of chital, sambar, red muntjac and hog deer that inhabits the park. Choushingas reside predominantly in the hills. Rhesus macaques, gray langurs, thick-tailed pangolins, Indian crested porcupines, several species of flying squirrels, black-naped hares and endangered hispid hares are also present.

Birds

Every year dedicated bird watchers and conservationists survey bird species occurring all over the country. In 2006 they recorded 543 species in the Chitwan National Park, much more than in any other protected area in Nepal and about two-thirds of Nepal's globally threatened species. Additionally, 20 black-chinned yuhina, a pair of Gould's sunbird, a pair of blossom-headed parakeet and one slaty-breasted rail, an uncommon winter visitor, were sighted in spring 2008.

Especially the park's alluvial grasslands are important habitats for the critically endangered Bengal florican, the vulnerable lesser adjutant, grey-crowned prinia, swamp francolin and several species of grass warblers. In 2005 more than 200 slender-billed babblers were sighted in three different grassland types. The near threatened Oriental darter is a resident breeder around the many lakes, where egrets, bitterns, storks and kingfishers also abound.
The park is one of the few known breeding sites of the globally threatened spotted eagle.
Peafowl and jungle fowl scratch their living on the forest floor.

Apart from the resident birds about 160 migrating and vagrant species arrive in Chitwan in autumn from northern latitudes to spend the winter here, among them the greater spotted eagle, eastern imperial eagle and Pallas's fish-eagle. Common sightings include brahminy ducks and goosanders. Large flocks of bar-headed geese just rest for a few days in February on their way north.

As soon as the winter visitors have left in spring, the summer visitors arrive from southern latitudes. The calls of cuckoos herald the start of spring. The colourful pitta and several sunbird species are common breeding visitors during monsoon. Among the many flycatcher species the Indian paradise flycatcher with his long undulating tail in flight is a spectacular sight.

Literature
 Bird Conservation Nepal (2006). Birds of Chitwan. Checklist of 543 reported species. Published in cooperation with Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation and Participatory Conservation Programme II, Kathmandu.
 Gurung, K. K., Singh R. (1996). Field Guide to the Mammals of the Indian Subcontinent. Academic Press, San Diego,

Media coverage
The park's unique rhino herd was featured on The Jeff Corwin Experience in season 2, episode 11.

See also
 Terai Arc Landscape
 Wildlife of Nepal

References

External links

 Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, Nepal : Chitwan National Park
 Chitwan National Park
UNESCO World Heritage Site Link

 Vulture Breeding Centre in Chitwan National Park

National parks of Nepal
Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
Grasslands of Nepal
Wetlands of Nepal
Nawalpur District
Parsa District
Chitwan District
Makwanpur District
Bagmati Province
World Heritage Sites in Nepal
1973 establishments in Nepal

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Thirteen boys and girls accused of carrying signs and emblems attributed to Satanism and worshiping the Devil have been arrested in a restaurant in Tehran, local news websites reported on Saturday, October 21.
Several Iranian news agencies, including Fars, run by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, cited Tehran Police force, as announcing, "Officers of Precinct 109...received a report on girls and boys, with tendency to worship the Devil, gathered at a restaurant in a street in Tehran's 12th district".
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On Tuesday, October 17, the commander of Iranian Prevention Police, Reza Bastoo reported that two 25-year-old youth, accused of selling "Devil worshiping devices" including "garments and long colorful boots, as well as bandanas and printed bracelets", have been arrested.
"The two culprits confessed that they used to make thirty million rials (nearly $880) profit each day through selling products related to Satanism and worshiping the devil", commander Bastoo maintained.
In past two years, reports on police storming youth gatherings and parties, and arresting them has significantly increased.
Reportedly, police senitivity is a response to the Supreme Leader's call for fighting against what he has described as "social harms".
In most cases, police have accused the detainees of "drinking alcoholic beverages", hosting "mixed-gender parties" and having "illegal sex affairs".
Attacking and breaking up parties were quite rife after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, but it gradually died down.
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As a rule, the judiciary describes the detainees as elements of corruption, prostitution, illegal sexual relations, perversion and alcohol drinking.
A dual American-Iranian citizen and his wife have been sentenced to death by an Iranian court after being convicted of establishing a "cult" and "holding mixed parties" that involved serving alcohol, the Financial Times reported on March 13, 2017.
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It's no secret that banks and credit unions are changing the ways they provide services to their account holders – pushing for less expensive service channels such as web portals, mobile applications, and ATMs. As a result, the number of available bank branches has dropped over forty percent (40%) since 1980, according to a recent study Teller Line Study from FMSI. Now, most U.S. consumers still choose to get their cash from an ATM – often loading up on cash five or more times per month. Financial Industry experts, citing the change to bank retail delivery, predict a focus on increasing ATM availability – resulting in a significant push for banks and credit unions to find ways to offer surcharge-free transactions.
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"Blood on Ice" is one of the essential metal albums, being both the termination point of black metal and the beginning of Viking metal, years before either sound became full-fledged genres. Some might argue about whether or not it belongs on a website specializing in experimental metal—it's straightforward even by the standards of heavy metal—but it's a pioneering album, the fountainhead of sounds and lyrical themes we now take for granted. It was new and innovative.
One can imagine the young Quorthon furtively assembling the bits and pieces, knowing he was onto something exciting. Sadly, Quorthon underestimated his own abilities and left the album unfinished until 1996. As a result, the first proper Viking metal album wasn't actually released until the basic concept had already solidified into a working genre.
Sure, "Blood Fire Death" might be the first Viking metal album thematically, but "Blood on Ice" took the concept much further, making the distinction between blazing thrashy black metal and heroic Viking metal far more apparent. It's a concept album about a young Norse hero traveling far and wide to avenge the death of his family. Clearly Qurothon had seen "Conan the Barbarian."
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Because it was deemed unsuitable for release, the sound, re-mastered though it may be, is raw, clumsy and flat. Quorthon was new to the whole singing thing, and his voice is wildly uneven. But when he really pushes it, as he does on "The Lake," his voice is as resounding and powerful as the best metal has to offer. He does a great job warbling his way through balls out heavy metal thrash fests like "One Eyed Old Man." But it's ultimately the untested honesty of his singing that sets it apart, lacking range but dripping authenticity. This is not some tongue-in-cheek irony-laden entertainment, but a sincere and convincing performance.
"Blood on Ice" might have been buried, but it still served a purpose; it was the prototype for the balls to the wall folk-inflected metal sound that future bands (Falkenbach, Einherjer, Thyfring, Enslaved, etc.) would draw on. The album suggests the frosty outer limits of black metal, the possibilities that lay beyond self-imposed Satanism and evil posturing. By pulling in elements from folk music, Norse mythology and Manowar, Quorthon single-handedly created (forged?) Viking metal.
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Release: 1988/1996
Label: Black Mark
Avantgenre: Proto-Viking Metal
Origin: Sweden
Official site: None
02 – Blood On Ice
03 – Man Of Iron
04 – On Eyed Old Man
05 – The Sword
06 – The Stallion
07 – The Woodwoman
08 – The Lake
09 – Gods Of Thunder Of Wind If Rain
10 – The Ravens
11 – The Revenge Of The Blood On Ice
Bal-Sagoth "Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-veiled Throne of Ultima Thule" (1996)
Behold… the Arctopus "Skullgrid" (2007)


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I need to find out how to go about getting to that point, mainly where do I start? I have credits for criminal justice that I would hate to lose, but will if needed. Do I start with BA in psychology, interest in criminal justice?...or do I go ahead and get my BA in criminal justice then move to masters in forensic psychology?
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