European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              June 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page is iraqi refugees find Community in Detroit by Jeff Karoub the associated press Detroit Rafat Ita Calls Iraq his but the United states is the 43yearold fled Iraq in 1991 after the persian Gulf War and the sectarian uprisings that followed and came to the in the iraqi army Veteran left after experiencing what he de scribed As discrimination for being chaldean the largest Catholic Community in even though Iraq is my coun try and ill love it until i i still feel its not the place i belong said who now helps other refugees in his Job with lutheran social services of i had to leave and build my future where i know i United cultural familiarity and family ties made resettlement easier for him and others who have emigrated since the and several say they expect it will be similar for iraqis who follow in the weeks and months the Bush administration announced in february it would allow up to iraqis into the by the end of september up from 202 in it would be the largest iraqi influx since the 2003 and Aid workers say up to half of the new refugees Likely will come to the Detroit area either initially or after first resettling the Detroit suburb of dear born is widely considered the Cap ital of Arab America because of its National Ara american Muse Many mosques and scores of arabic signed who said he had been jailed at one Point by Saddam Hussein army but declined to offer lived for a while in aus Tria and he eventually followed his brother to the de troit Home to about people who Trace their roots to the Middle the Community Here is very you can go to any Gas Sta Tion or convenience store or restaurant and see chaldean Paul Fadhel helps Jawad Al Mumar with produce at the Rivers land Market in on working there or owning the Busi said whose Agency is the local affiliate for lutheran immigration and refugee services and episcopal migration minis one of the main resettle ment agencies working with the state along Dearborn Warren ave one of the main arteries for that Commerce and sever Al businesses Are owned and oper ated by the Alje Bori who came to the in 1993 after two years in a saudi arabian refugee now Fadhel Alje Bori was 8 when his family fled their Home in they Long had opposed Saddam after a tense journey that included hiding from iraqi forces and a Brief separation from his Alje Bori and several other family members wound up in a refugee where they spent two years awaiting assign ment to another they re settled in where they stayed for eight he said they were treated but it was hard to adjust in a place where few spoke it was particularly difficult for his older Brothers and parents to learn in but then they visited de it was an easy life for them Here so they decided to move said who lives in nearby Dearborn Heights with his wife and two children and is studying to become a respiratory Detroit is kind of like Bagh Only no he Dima partners Fred Gillen a washboard and Matt a perform during music under new Yorks Day off auditions in grand Central terminal on May in new nyc subway sounds get More melodic by Deepti Hajela the associated press new York the sounds of the trains Roll ing in and out of service announcements Over the speak the Rushing footsteps of com and a washboard if Fred Gillen has his Gillen and his Friend Matt Turk were among dozens of musicians and performers who made their Way to grand Central terminals Vanderbilt Hall to audition for the metropolitan transportation authority music under new York while plenty of people toot horns or sing their Way through the Only about 100 or so acts Are officially recognized by the getting prime perform ing spaces in some of the busiest every about 20 spaces open up on the so auditions Are held to fill recent with about 70 performers taken from 200 submit covered a musical from Folk Rock to electric Gillen used a Brush and a Marker to play his washboard As Turk strummed the the both music looked to the subway to provide a new you get an Opportunity to be spontaneous and catch people who Are not looking for you but yet All of a sudden Are right there in front of Turk sixteen Earold Banks Harris of skipped school along with companion Kane Dulaney also for the Chance to audition in front of More than two dozen impressing Many with her powerful singing the two were looking for the official Sanction for subway weve done it but wed feel better if we had a Balser adding that other Wise there was More of a Chance they could be roasted or asked to Stop by police annoyed subway while Treyve made some Money doing Harris said the main draw was the Chance to per its the greatest she the which started As a Pilot in is part of the Mas arts for which also places visual Art in the sub Way music under new York organizes More than 150 performances a week at 25 including grand Central Termi Pennsylvania station and the subway stations at times Square and Union in Many ways it really is a gift to the City and to other new said Sandra director of arts for California Community rocked by three suicides by Jonathan Abrams los Angeles times Palm by the time the school year ended last most students at Palm Springs High school  go near room the room is used As the crisis counselling Center at the where three underclassmen have committed suicide since novem by the third we had Stu dents that absolutely didst want to go to the said Jane director of child welfare and support at Palm Springs uni fied school the All of students who knew one have unsettled the desert resort City and have school parents and class mates concerned that the first Sui might have triggered the people Are still trying to get Over everything that happened this said Pedro a 15yearold Sophomore who knew the three suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the country among 10to experts suffered from Depres Sion or other mental illnesses that left them copycat suicides Are not in especially among Young adults imitating friends or a researchers have found that every Between 100 and 200 teenagers die in Sui cide the likelihood of copycats is very High because people learn it from friends As an acceptable be said Thomas Hick assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at the Keck school of Medicine at the University of Southern at Palm Springs High the first suicide occurred Early in the school a 15yearold Sophomore killed himself that he posted two messages on his myspace one read in Gonna do something really stupid and in apologizing to the people its Gonna Hurt in later he wrote Call the Tell them to go up the stairs to my one of Many students to visit the boys House after his and express condolences to his was a 15yearold Sopho More who was among the boys Circle of friends at she took her life in two weeks students attended memorial services for a 14yearold freshman boy who died in late school officials said there was no indication that the suicides were directly even though the three knew one in response to the first two school officials held three student assemblies aimed at boosting they mobilized a crisis team and provided grief they implemented a student peer counselling group and started keeping tabs on students they Felt were prone to such we do have an obligation to educate our students and put a Strat egy in place to stress the importance of handling the Mills