Syrian students in demonstrations in Aleppo - Reuters

Women demonstrate, on the coastal road Baida, April 13, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/HandoutBy Khaled Yacoub Oweis

AMMAN. Thu April 14, 2011 5: 00 am EDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian forces took action in universities after that students work for the first time in the second largest city of Aleppo during demonstrations against the Baathist regime unprecedented, activists, said Thursday.

Approximately 150 students walk on Wednesday in a protest demanding political freedoms on the campus of the University of Aleppo, the defenders of the rights which have been in contact with them, said.

Irregulars of the Baath party quickly dispersed students who chanted "sacrifice us our blood and our souls for you, Deraa.".

The slogan was to show solidarity with the city of Deraa to the South, where the protests against the authoritarian regime of President Bashar al-Assad and his party began three years ago and a half weeks.

They have since spread to the outskirts of Damascus, North-East, the Mediterranean coast and between regions.

"The thugs quickly organized a demonstration pro-Assad, and certainly enough, Syrian television came to film," one of the activists said, adding that several demonstrators were beaten and three students were arrested.

"The regime is aware that it cannot let the breath of the campus." "They have seen what may be an emboldening elsewhere student movement," said activist.

With presence of heavy secret police, preachers on the payroll of State giving pro-Assad sermons and Sunni merchant class, remain on the sidelines, major events do not have to propagate appropriate Damascus or Aleppo.

This denied protesters critical mass in the uprisings that swept through the Tunisia and the Egypt and overthrown Governments y.

In the capital, hundreds of students walk into a pro-democracy protest in the University of Damascus for a second day.

Activists said secret police assembled in a restaurant opposite the main gate and mounted periodic incursions in the campus of the arrest of persons.

Earlier Wednesday, hundreds of women of a Syrian city which has witnessed the mass arrests of its male residents walk along the main coastal road from the Syria to demand their release.

The security forces, including the secret police, stormed Baida Tuesday, entering houses and arresting the men until the age of 60 years, said of the lawyers. The arrests came after that urban joined protests challenging the Ba'ath party, which ruled the Syria with a strong hand since 1963.

Baida women walking on the main road leading to the Turkey chanting slogans calling for the release of some 350 men, said the Syrian human rights observatory.

Al-Assad, who has placed Syria as champion self-proclaimed "resistance" to Israel while seeking peace with the State Jewish and accepting offers for rehabilitation, West responded to demonstrations with force lethal mixture and vague promises of reform.

The Damascus Declaration, the basic rights of the Syria group, said that the balance of these events reached 200.

(Editing by Michael Roddy)

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Symptoms of dependence of Tech ubiquitous among students

Students from around the world were particularly dependent on their mobile phones, compared to other devices such as computers and MP3 players. iStockYoung adults worldwide experience distress when they try unplugging technology on the same day, a research project was found.

"A clear majority" of almost 1,000 university students in 10 countries, including China, Chile, of United Kingdom, and Uganda, were unable to voluntarily remain far from computers, televisions, cell phones and MP3 players for 24 hours, reported the International Center for Media at the University of Maryland College ParkMD.who has led the project "the world unplugged".

Many students also reported physical and mental distress symptoms and "used the rhetoric of addiction, dependence and depression," relate their experiences of trying to go unplugged for a full day.

"Students spoke scary how it is, how addicted they were," said Susan Moeller, Professor of media who led the project. "They should frustration." But they did not expect to have psychological effects, to be lonely, to be taken of panic, anxiety, literally heart palpitations. ?

However, researchers have noted that they are not health care professionals and the study was not designed to assess students mental or physical well-being.

Ryan Blondino, student at the University of Maryland who participated to the experience of going without digital technology to a missing member.

"I felt something very similar to a phantom limb, only it would be like ghost cell phone," said. "I still felt like the vibration of my phone and I was getting messages even if I didn't have it on me.".

Hannah Hoffman, another student at the University of Maryland, said that it has failed to be free of media for a few hours.

"I really did not know what to do with myself," she said, adding with a laugh, "I ate much."

Moeller, has declared that in all 10 countries, more than 50 per cent of the students did not go the full 24 hours, but it was "problematic to put hard numbers" in some countries or all of the results of different wayseach of the countries reported their rate of participation and rupture.

The study revealed some differences among the students used and relies on digital technology in the different countries, despite enormous differences in these countries in economic development, culture and political governance.

All the students were particularly dependent on their mobile phones.

'Students from around the world, said that the media - and their phones, especially - have been both the emotional and even physical comfort.'-Sergei Golitsinski, researcher

"We were surprised, too, comforting that students from around the world said time and again that the media - and their phones, mainly - were both emotionally and even physically,"said Sergei Golitsinski, Member of the centre's research team"", in a statement.

Without digital music players was also very difficult - students reported that they felt sad and stressed when they have music in their ears and found "hard to do anything and go anywhere."

Students from 12 universities participated between September and December 2010. Asked to complete a survey online on their demographics and their use of media. After the period of 24 hours free media, they were asked to report any cancelled or an inability to continue. They were also to discuss how experience them know how they have used media.

"Asked PAS, in itself, how they felt on the transfer - from having to go without,"Moeller said in an e-mail Wednesday, but many students volunteered anything of the kind, and the lines of "I never make this new!" "." "

However, many of them said that they learned of the study that relying on devices such as cell phones "actually inhibited their ability to manage their lives as fully that they hoped", the authors. Some said that they needed to stop their media habits, although they doubted that they would be able to do so.

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